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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Zorah

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 Danite town, birthplace of Samson, associated with divine promise and Nazirite consecration.

Detailed Definition
Zorah (Judges 13) is where an angel announced Samson’s birth. In poetry, it symbolizes miraculous beginnings, the tension between destiny and weakness, and the sacredness of ordinary villages chosen for extraordinary purposes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Zorah—Samson’s birthplace—inspires Nazirite poetry: “In Zorah, Manoah’s wife heard: ‘You shall conceive a deliverer’”; A modern poem: “My Zorah is the ordinary town where extraordinary calling begins”; In a sonnet on consecration: “Samson’s strength came not from hair, but from vow—and Zorah kept it”; Liturgical verse: “Blessed Zorah, cradle of flawed but chosen strength.”
Additional Notes
Zorah (Judges 13:2, 25; 18:2) was a Danite town where Manoah and his wife received the angelic announcement of Samson’s birth. Consecrated as a Nazirite from the womb, Samson’s life embodies both divine empowerment and tragic flaw. In poetry, Zorah symbolizes the intersection of promise and peril, the burden of vocation, and the tension between holiness and human weakness—ideal for exploring the complexities of charismatic leadership and the cost of covenantal calling.
Also Known As
Zoreah
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