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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Adahy

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

Cherokee forest spirit embodying solitude and wilderness, often appearing in Native American tales as a guardian of natural spaces.

Detailed Definition
Adahy is a quiet, reclusive forest spirit in Cherokee lore, often depicted as living alone among the trees, embodying the sacredness of nature and introspection. Though not widely featured in classical literature, Adahy appears in modern Native poetry as a symbol of spiritual retreat, ecological wisdom, and the enduring presence of ancestral spirits in wild places, reflecting themes of solitude and harmony with the natural world.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a poem inspired by Cherokee lore, Adahy—the forest-dwelling spirit—whispers through rustling leaves to guide lost travelers; A contemporary poet invokes Adahy as the silent guardian of ancient oaks, embodying the sacred bond between humans and woodland; Adahy appears in verse as the embodiment of stillness, teaching mindfulness through the quiet pulse of the forest; A lyrical stanza portrays Adahy weaving moonlight into spiderwebs at dawn, symbolizing delicate balance in nature; Poets use Adahy to personify the unseen forces that protect biodiversity in endangered ecosystems.
Additional Notes
Adahy is a figure from Cherokee mythology, often described as a young man of great strength and virtue who lived in the forests and embodied the ideal of harmonious coexistence with nature; poets may draw on Adahy as a symbol of purity, resilience, or the untamed spirit of the wilderness, but should be mindful that interpretations vary among Cherokee storytellers and regional traditions—avoid conflating him with generic “noble savage” tropes.
Also Known As
Adahi Adai
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