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 S

Sephirot

World Religion
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

In Jewish Kabbalah, the ten attributes or emanations through which the Infinite (Ein Sof) reveals itself and continuously creates both the physical and metaphysical realms.

Detailed Definition
The Sephirot (e.g., Chesed, Gevurah, Tiferet) form the symbolic "Tree of Life," mapping the process of creation and the path of divine energy into the world. They represent a complex cosmology and a guide for spiritual ascent. For poets and mystics, the Sephirot provide a rich symbolic language for describing the multifaceted nature of God, the structure of the soul, and the interplay of divine qualities like judgment and mercy. They offer a framework for understanding how the infinite can be manifest in the finite.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Kabbalistic poetry, Sephirot are divine emanations: “Tree of Life—Sephirot map mercy, judgment, beauty”; In mystical verse, Sephirot balance: “Chesed and Gevurah—Sephirot, arms of divine embrace”; In contemporary poetry, Sephirot inspire integration: “Ten facets—Sephirot mirror my complex soul”; Poets use Sephirot for growth: “Climb the Tree—Sephirot guide from fear to wisdom.”
Additional Notes
Sephirot are the ten emanations of Ein Sof (Infinite) in Kabbalah—Kether (Crown) to Malkuth (Kingdom)—mapping divine attributes and cosmic structure; they form the Tree of Life, a tool for meditation; poets use sephirotic imagery to explore balance (chesed/mercy and gevurah/judgment) and the soul’s journey through divine qualities toward unity.
Also Known As
Sefirot Divine Emanations
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