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.

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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Grandmother Moon

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

A Native American lunar deity, especially among Algonquian peoples, associated with women’s cycles, night, and spiritual guidance.

Detailed Definition
Grandmother Moon is a pan-tribal figure who governs tides, menstruation, and night, offering guidance and reflection. She is often paired with Grandfather Sun. Revered in ceremonies, she embodies intuition, healing, and timekeeping. In poetry, Grandmother Moon symbolizes feminine wisdom, cyclical renewal, and the quiet power of darkness, frequently invoked in verses about women’s rites, dreams, and cosmic balance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Grandmother Moon appears in Lakota poetry as the silver spinner of tides and women’s cycles; A verse describes her braiding starlight into dreamcatchers for sleepless children; Poets invoke Grandmother Moon during ceremonies for missing women: “She counts every sister lost”; In ecological poetry, her phases mark planting and harvesting rhythms; Her craters become eyes in verse—watching over night travelers with ancient care.
Additional Notes
Grandmother Moon is a revered figure in many Native traditions (e.g., Anishinaabe, Lakota), governing tides, women’s cycles, and intuition; she is often paired with Grandfather Sun—poets can use her to explore feminine wisdom and cosmic rhythm, but should avoid New Age appropriations that strip her of specific tribal meanings.
Also Known As
Nokomis
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