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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

Home › Glossary › Letter S

Seker

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

Memphite funerary god of the dead, depicted as a mummified falcon

Detailed Definition
Seker, “the powerful,” ruled the darkness of the Duat and was later syncretized with Osiris as Sokar-Osiris. He ferried souls in his henu barque. In poetry, he symbolizes the silent journey of death, the mysteries of the underworld, and the fusion of decay and renewal—frequently used in funerary or chthonic verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
A funerary verse: "Seker, falcon god of Memphis, guards the darkness before dawn"; In underworld poetry: "Seker’s barque sails the Duat, carrying souls through night’s trials"; Another line: "During Khoiak festival, priests reenact Seker’s mysteries of death and rebirth"; A symbolic use: "My transition is Seker—silent, watchful, preparatory"; In lyrical form: "Stars dim as Seker’s wings fold over the necropolis"; A devotional poem: "O Seker, guide me through the stillness between endings and beginnings".
Additional Notes
Seker (Sokar) is a Memphite funerary god of darkness, craftsmanship, and the necropolis; he is depicted as a mummified falcon—his festival merged with Osiris’s, creating the “Seker-Osiris” syncretism—poets may use Seker to explore the artisan of death, the silent watcher of tombs, or the fusion of chthonic and solar powers.
Also Known As
Sokar Seker the Memphite Funerary God
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