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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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Asnapper

Biblical
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 otherwise unknown king, possibly Ashurbanipal, who deported peoples to Samaria (Ezra 4).

Detailed Definition
Asnapper is mentioned only in passing as a deporter of colonists. In poetry, such obscure rulers evoke the machinery of empire, the displacement of peoples, and the tangled roots of post-exilic identity, symbolizing historical forces beyond individual control.
Example
Example in poetry:
Asnapper—Assyrian king who exiled peoples—rarely appears, but a poet might write, “Asnapper scattered nations like chaff, yet Judah’s root remained”; In a poem on exile: “We were Asnapper’s captives, but our songs outlived his empire”; Historical verse: “Asnapper’s name fades, but the remnant he moved became witnesses in Samaria”; Minimalist line: “Asnapper: conqueror whose census lists birthed unexpected faith.”
Additional Notes
Asnapper (Ezra 4:10) is likely a scribal variant of Ashurbanipal, the Assyrian king who resettled foreign peoples in Samaria. His mention reflects the complex demographics of post-exilic Judah. Though obscure, Asnapper represents the imperial machinery that shaped Israel’s identity through displacement and mixture—relevant for poems on exile, hybridity, and contested belonging.
Also Known As
Ashurbanipal
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