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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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Sed Festival

Mythology
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

Royal jubilee to renew the pharaoh’s strength after 30 years of rule

Detailed Definition
The Sed Festival, or Heb-Sed, involved rituals, races, and symbolic reunification of Egypt. It affirmed the king’s divine vitality. In poetry, it symbolizes renewal, endurance of leadership, and the cyclical nature of power—often used in celebratory or regal contexts honoring longevity and vigor.
Example
Example in poetry:
A royal poem: "Sed Festival renews the pharaoh’s vigor after thirty years of rule"; In ritual verse: "Pharaoh runs the Sed Festival course, proving divine fitness to reign"; Another line: "Temples depict Sed Festival scenes, showing gods witnessing renewal"; A symbolic use: "My milestone is Sed Festival—celebrating endurance and rebirth"; In lyrical tone: "Drums beat as the king leaps hurdles in the Sed Festival, defying time"; A devotional invocation: "O gods of the Sed Festival, grant me strength for my second wind".
Additional Notes
The Sed Festival (Heb-Sed) was a jubilee celebrating a pharaoh’s continued vitality after 30 years of rule; it involved ritual running, renewal of crowns, and symbolic reunification—poets can draw on it for themes of endurance, the performance of power, or the cyclical reassertion of cosmic order through royal ritual.
Also Known As
Heb-Sed Sed Jubilee
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