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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Behemoth

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

A colossal, land-dwelling beast in the Book of Job, symbolizing untameable earthly power and divine sovereignty; in poetry, it represents the sublime, the monstrous, or creation's awe-inspiring magnitude.

Detailed Definition
In Job, Behemoth embodies untamable strength, feeding among reeds while human beings remain unable to master it. The creature is less a simple monster than a reminder that creation exceeds human categories and control. Poets use Behemoth to give bodily form to overwhelming appetite, geological time, or the strange dignity of forces that terrify us precisely because they do not exist for our purposes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Behemoth appears in Job as a gigantic creature whose strength humbles human pride.; A poet could use Behemoth to represent untamable nature: “The Behemoth stirred beneath the river reeds.”; The name can enlarge an ordinary animal into a mythic presence in a poem.; “No bridle fit the Behemoth of the storm” uses the term as a metaphor for overwhelming force.
Additional Notes
Behemoth is a primeval land creature described in Job 40:15–24, portrayed with extraordinary strength and a tail compared poetically with a cedar. Its identity is debated; it may be a stylized hippopotamus, a mythic creature, or a symbol of untamable creation. It is paired with Leviathan.
Also Known As
Behemot 'potamus
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