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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Pyanopsia

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 Athenian festival honoring Apollo with bean stew (pyanos), laurel branches, and offerings of first fruits

Detailed Definition
Pyanopsia, held in October, featured boys carrying eiresione (olive branches with wool and fruits) to homes for blessing. In poetry, it appears as a harvest-Apollonian rite. Poets use it to explore themes of gratitude, communal blessing, and the sacredness of first fruits—making it a symbol of agrarian piety, youth’s role in ritual, and the hope for continued prosperity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Athenian sources note Pyanopsia with bean stew and Apollo’s autumn thanks; Poets use Pyanopsia to explore harvest gratitude, music, and civic offering; In modern verse, Pyanopsia symbolizes communal sharing and seasonal pause; The festival appears in October poetry as autumn’s first fruits; Poets contrast eiresione branch with simple stew; Eco-poets reference Pyanopsia as sustainable thanksgiving.
Additional Notes
Pyanopsia (October) was an Athenian festival for Apollo featuring bean stew (pyanos) and olive branches (eiresione); gave thanks for harvest; in poetry, it symbolizes gratitude, communal offering, and the sacredness of staple foods—ideal for agrarian, hymnic, or domestic verse exploring sustenance as divine gift.
Also Known As
Pyanopsia Festival Pyanepsia
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