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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Pyanepsia

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

An ancient Athenian festival honoring Apollo with beans and a ritual branch.

Detailed Definition
Pyanepsia was celebrated in Athens during the month of Pyanepsion, chiefly in honor of Apollo. Participants prepared a porridge of beans and grains, while children carried an eiresione, a decorated olive branch hung with fruit, wool, and household offerings. The ceremony commemorated Theseus's return from Crete and his vow to Apollo. In poetry, the festival offers images of hunger transformed into gratitude, branches speaking through gifts, and communal memory carried from door to door.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem for Pyanepsia might praise Apollo with a ritual bowl of beans and grain offered after Theseus’s return; A harvest verse could describe the eiresione branch carried to Apollo during Pyanepsia; A poet may contrast autumn abundance with winter hunger through the communal meal of Pyanepsia; An invocation could ask Apollo to bless the household as singers celebrate Pyanepsia
Additional Notes
Pyanepsia was held in the month of Pyanepsion and involved a bean stew, linking Apollo with communal nourishment and seasonal renewal. A boy carried the eiresione, an olive branch decorated with wool, fruit, and small cakes. The branch also appears in discussions of Greek household ritual and harvest symbolism.
Also Known As
Pyanopsia Pyanepsia Festival
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