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 C

Chahta

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

The Choctaw people, whose creation narratives and cosmology feature prominently in their own Native American mythological tradition.

Detailed Definition
Chahta refers to the Choctaw people, who believe they emerged from Nanih Waiya, a sacred mound. Their origin story involves a journey guided by a pole that leaned toward their homeland. In poetry, Chahta symbolizes rootedness, migration, and the sacredness of place. Poets invoke Chahta to honor indigenous sovereignty, ancestral geography, and the resilience of Southeastern tribal identity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Chahta, referencing the Choctaw people, appears in poetry as the rhythm of corn grinding at dawn; A poem uses “Chahta” as a heartbeat beneath verses about removal and return; Contemporary poets invoke Chahta cosmology to affirm that “we are still here,” despite erasure; In lyrical form, Chahta grandmothers stitch star maps into quilts, preserving navigation songs; Chahta identity becomes a river in verse—diverted but never dried.
Additional Notes
Chahta (Choctaw) refers to both the people and their mythological traditions, which include Nanih Waiya (the sacred mound), the story of the crawfish creating land, and the corn mother—poets engaging with Chahta lore should honor the tribe’s deep connection to place and oral history, avoiding generic “Native” tropes in favor of specific, respectful references.
Also Known As
Choctaw
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