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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Rogation Days

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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

Days of prayer before Ascension Day, historically marked by processions through fields. They are associated with blessing land, crops, and boundaries.

Detailed Definition
Rogation Days are the three days before Ascension Day, traditionally observed with prayers and processions asking for blessing on fields, crops, and communities. In older rural practice, participants walked parish boundaries, joining worship with local geography. Poets may draw on these processions to explore belonging, land stewardship, inheritance, and the fragile dependence of human life on weather. Their ritual movement through fields gives them a strong visual and rhythmic presence in verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem may show parishioners walking the fields during Rogation Days, asking blessing for crops and protection from hunger; Rogation Days provide a useful setting for a procession poem because prayer, boundary walking, and landscape are joined; A speaker might remember beating the parish bounds during Rogationtide, learning the names of streams, stones, and old trees; In a drought poem, Rogation prayers for rain can contrast human hope with a hard and cloudless sky
Additional Notes
Rogation Days traditionally occur in the days before Ascension and involve walking parish boundaries while praying for crops. They connect sacred ritual with landscape, weather, and communal belonging.
Also Known As
Rogationtide
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