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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

Set

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

God of chaos, storms, deserts, and foreign lands, murderer of Osiris

Detailed Definition
Set, though a necessary force of disorder, was later demonized. He protected Ra from Apophis and embodied strength. In poetry, he symbolizes the necessary chaos, the outsider, and the shadow self—frequently used in contexts of conflict, transformation, and the duality of power.
Example
Example in poetry:
A chaotic poem: "Set murders Osiris, scattering his body across the Black Land"; In storm verse: "Set’s red hair mirrors the desert, his voice the thunder of chaos"; Another line: "Yet Set defends Ra’s barque, spearing Apep in the underworld"; A symbolic use: "My shadow is Set—necessary, disruptive, protective"; In lyrical form: "Desert winds howl Set’s name, tearing at the edges of order"; A devotional poem: "O Set, teach me to harness chaos for creation".
Additional Notes
Set (Seth) is the god of deserts, storms, chaos, and foreign lands; he murdered Osiris but also defends Ra against Apophis—his complex nature defies simple villainy—poets can use Set to explore necessary chaos, the outsider as protector, or the tension between order and disruptive innovation.
Also Known As
Seth Setekh pight
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