A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Prokerosia

Historical Festival
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Ancient Greek festival marking the preliminary plowing before sowing season, honoring agricultural deities with first-furrow rituals

Detailed Definition
The Prokerosia was a Greek agricultural festival celebrating the first plowing before sowing, honoring Demeter and other chthonic deities who governed fertility and harvest success. Communities performed rituals at the season's first furrow, offering prayers and sacrifices for abundant crops. The festival acknowledged agriculture's sacred dimensions and humanity's dependence on divine favor. In poetry, Prokerosia represents agricultural beginnings, the sanctification of labor, and the crucial moment when seed meets soil, appearing in works exploring farming cycles, humanity's covenant with earth deities, and the ritual preparation necessary for sustaining civilization through cultivation.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Prokerosia plowing festival appears in poetry celebrating agricultural beginnings; Ancient poets describe first furrow rites and seed blessing; "At Prokerosia, the plow cuts earth to receive grain's promise" shows usage; The festival provides material for verses on initiation and hopeful labor; Greek lyrics employ Prokerosian imagery for themes of starting and faith in seasons; Modern poets use the term for exploring agricultural hope and earth's opening
Additional Notes
Prokerosia marks the preliminary plowing before sowing season, honoring agricultural deities with first-fruits and prayers for successful cultivation. The festival emphasizes agriculture's ritualized beginning and the divine favor necessary for successful farming. Understanding Prokerosia helps illuminate Greek agricultural festivals' comprehensive coverage of farming cycles from initial preparation through harvest. The preliminary plowing's ritual recognition demonstrates Greek attention to every stage of agricultural production and the religious obligations attending each phase.
Also Known As
preliminary libation preparatory offering ritual prelude
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