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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

Home › Glossary › Letter G

Gilgal

Historical Location
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 biblical site near Jericho where the Israelites camped after crossing the Jordan, associated with covenant renewal and circumcision

Detailed Definition
Gilgal was the first encampment in the Promised Land, where Joshua erected memorial stones and the people recommitted to God’s law. It signifies transition, obedience, and new beginnings. In poetry, Gilgal appears as a symbol of threshold moments, communal identity, or the sacredness of historical memory—often representing the passage from wandering to rootedness, or from trial to promise.
Example
Example in poetry:
In the Hebrew Bible, Gilgal is where Joshua erected memorial stones, later echoed in devotional verse; Puritan poets use Gilgal as a typological site of covenant renewal; Romantic biblical poetry references Gilgal to explore themes of memory and divine promise; Modern spiritual lyric reimagines Gilgal as a metaphor for personal transformation; In postcolonial poetry, Gilgal sometimes symbolizes contested sacred space.
Additional Notes
Gilgal, located near Jericho, was where the Israelites first camped after crossing the Jordan River, erecting twelve stones as a memorial (Joshua 4). It became a site of covenant renewal and prophetic activity (e.g., Elijah and Elisha). In biblical poetry and hymns, Gilgal evokes transition, divine faithfulness, and the marking of sacred history. However, later prophets (Hosea, Amos) condemned it as a site of idolatry—offering poetic tension between memory and corruption, promise and apostasy.
Also Known As
rolling stones Jordan camp covenant renewal
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