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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Midian

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 desert region east of the Gulf of Aqaba, associated with Moses’s exile and marriage in the Hebrew Bible

Detailed Definition
Midian was where Moses fled after killing an Egyptian, married Zipporah, and encountered the burning bush. It represents a liminal space of preparation and divine calling. In poetry, Midian evokes themes of exile, revelation in solitude, and the wilderness as a site of spiritual awakening—often used to frame narratives of prophetic identity or theophany in barren, sacred landscapes.
Example
Example in poetry:
In the Hebrew Bible, Midian is the desert refuge of Moses, later echoed in prophetic poetry; Milton references Midian in “Paradise Regained” as a place of spiritual preparation; Puritan poets use Midian to signify exile that leads to revelation; Romantic biblical verse portrays Midian as a landscape of austere theophany; Contemporary Middle Eastern poets reclaim Midian as a crossroads of Abrahamic memory.
Additional Notes
Midian, east of the Gulf of Aqaba, is where Moses fled after killing an Egyptian, married Zipporah (daughter of Jethro), and encountered God at the burning bush. It represents a desert threshold—place of exile, transformation, and divine calling. In biblical and devotional poetry, Midian symbolizes spiritual preparation, theophany in solitude, and the meeting of Hebrew and non-Hebrew wisdom (Jethro is a Midianite priest). Its arid landscape offers stark imagery for poems on revelation and identity.
Also Known As
desert wanderers Moses refuge Jethro kin
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