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

Home › Glossary › Letter L

Leah

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

Jacob’s first wife in the Hebrew Bible, mother of six of the twelve tribes of Israel and daughter Dinah.

Detailed Definition
Unloved yet fruitful, Leah named her children expressing longing for love. Her perseverance shaped Israel’s tribes. In poetry, Leah symbolizes quiet endurance, the dignity of the overlooked, and the divine honoring of the unchosen through legacy.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Genesis 29:17, Leah is described as “tender-eyed,” a phrase poets like Adrienne Rich reinterpret as inner strength masked by sorrow; Elizabeth Barrett Browning alludes to Leah in “Aurora Leigh” as a figure of unchosen yet enduring love; In feminist midrashic poetry, Leah’s naming of her sons (Reuben: “See, a son!”) becomes an act of claiming agency; Contemporary verse contrasts Leah’s fertility with Rachel’s barrenness to explore divine compassion for the overlooked; In devotional poems, Leah’s burial in the Cave of Machpelah signifies her honored place among matriarchs; Some liturgical works include Leah in litanies of women who “built the house of Israel.”
Additional Notes
Leah, Jacob’s first wife (though not his chosen one), is portrayed as tender-eyed and resilient; despite being unloved, she bears six sons who become tribal patriarchs; her story offers rich emotional texture for poetry on longing, maternal strength, and divine compassion, especially as God “saw that Leah was hated” and opened her womb.
Also Known As
Leah daughter of Laban Leah wife of Jacob
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