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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Nahumite

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 term referring to someone from the town of Nahum or associated with the prophet Nahum.

Detailed Definition
Though obscure, “Nahumite” likely denotes origin from a place or lineage linked to Nahum. In poetry, it evokes prophetic identity rooted in place, symbolizing the local origins of universal messages of judgment and hope.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Nahumite—native of Elkosh, home of the prophet Nahum—might inspire a poem: “From Nahumite hills, judgment rolled like thunder against Nineveh”; In prophetic verse: “The Nahumite saw God not as distant, but as jealous and avenging”; A modern reflection: “My Nahumite voice speaks wrath to empires that crush the weak”; Liturgical poetry: “Blessed Nahumite, whose oracle turned Assyria’s pride to dust”; Historical sonnet: “Though Elkosh fades, the Nahumite’s words burn in every age of tyranny.”
Additional Notes
“Nahumite” is a rare term derived from Nahum, either referencing someone from the otherwise unlocated town of Elkosh (Nahum 1:1) or more commonly associated with the prophet Nahum himself, whose name means “comfort” or “consolation”—ironically, given his book’s fierce oracle against Nineveh. Though not used as a self-identifier in Scripture, “Nahumite” appears in scholarly or poetic contexts to denote affiliation with Nahum’s message of divine justice and the fall of empires. For poetry students, the term invites reflection on prophetic voice, the poetics of judgment, and the emotional tension between consolation for the oppressed and wrath against the oppressor.
Also Known As
Naamathite
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