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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Animosh

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

Ojibwe trickster spirit often appearing as a dog, serving as a companion, guide, or comic foil in traditional stories.

Detailed Definition
Animosh is the Ojibwe word for dog, often personified as a loyal yet clever companion to Nanabozho in trickster tales. Though not a deity, Animosh embodies fidelity, intuition, and the blurred line between human and animal. In poetry, Animosh symbolizes companionship in hardship and the wisdom of non-human beings, reflecting indigenous worldviews that honor interspecies kinship and oral storytelling’s moral lessons.
Example
Example in poetry:
Animosh, the Ojibwe trickster dog, barks through poems as a symbol of loyalty laced with mischief; A poet uses Animosh to critique blind obedience: “He fetches bones while the fire burns the lodge”; In urban Indigenous poetry, Animosh roams alleyways, sniffing out forgotten stories beneath dumpsters; Animosh appears as a companion to Nanabozho, his antics highlighting the hero’s flaws through comic relief; Some poets cast Animosh as the spirit of resilience—scrappy, street-smart, and always returning home.
Additional Notes
Animosh is an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) term for “dog,” often appearing in stories as a loyal companion or trickster figure; in some tales, dogs possess spiritual insight or act as guides between worlds—while not a deity, Animosh reflects the deep kinship between humans and animals in Anishinaabe thought, offering poets a motif for loyalty, instinct, or liminality.
Also Known As
Animoosh
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