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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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Resheph

Mythology
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

Syrian war and plague god adopted into Egyptian religion, depicted with a gazelle

Detailed Definition
Resheph, worshipped with Qetesh and Min, brought both disease and healing. He was a protector of the pharaoh in battle. In poetry, he symbolizes the duality of destruction and cure, the foreign god integrated into order, and the arrow of fate—frequently used in martial or apotropaic contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
A warrior poem: "Resheph, Syrian god adopted by Egypt, looses arrows of war and plague"; In syncretic verse: "Resheph joins Min and Qetesh in trinity of vitality and danger"; Another line: "Soldiers pray to Resheph before battle, seeking his fiery protection"; A symbolic use: "My intensity is Resheph—sudden, sharp, transformative"; In lyrical tone: "Moonlight catches Resheph’s crown, a gazelle leaping through stars"; A devotional poem: "O Resheph, temper your arrows, let them heal as well as strike".
Additional Notes
Resheph is a Syrian war and plague god adopted into Egyptian religion, depicted with a gazelle and weapons—his dual nature as bringer of disease and protector against it reflects ancient views of divine ambivalence—poets may use him to explore foreign influence, the sword that heals and harms, or the warrior as healer.
Also Known As
Reshef Rashap
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