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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Gihon

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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

One of the four rivers of Eden, also the name of a spring near Jerusalem

Detailed Definition
Gihon is listed in Genesis 2:13 as a river flowing through Cush, and in 1 Kings 1:33 as the spring where Solomon was anointed. It thus bridges paradisiacal and royal symbolism. Poets use Gihon to connect Edenic purity with earthly kingship or to evoke hidden sources of life and legitimacy—often as a metaphor for spiritual anointing or divine flow.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Genesis 2, Gihon is one of Eden’s four rivers, flowing around Cush; In medieval Jewish poetry, Gihon symbolizes divine wisdom’s hidden streams; Modern eco-poets use Gihon to reflect on lost rivers and ecological memory; In allegorical verse, Gihon represents life-giving but elusive spiritual sources; Contemporary spiritual poetry links Gihon to Jerusalem’s ancient water systems.
Additional Notes
Gihon is one of Eden’s four rivers (Genesis 2:13), flowing around Cush. In later tradition, it’s associated with Jerusalem’s water system (e.g., Hezekiah’s Tunnel). In poetry, it symbolizes hidden divine provision and life-giving wisdom. Students should note its name (“gusher”) and its contrast with the Tigris/Euphrates as more mysterious, less historically mapped rivers.
Other Meanings of “Gihon”
Also Known As
River Gihon Eden’s Stream Jerusalem’s Spring Hidden Waters
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