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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Indigenous Literary Renaissance

Historical And Literary Periods
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 late twentieth-century resurgence of Indigenous poetry, storytelling, publishing, and cultural sovereignty across many regions.

Detailed Definition
The Indigenous Literary Renaissance brought Native and First Nations voices into wider literary recognition while resisting the erasure produced by colonial schooling, land seizure, and imposed archives. Poets combined oral forms, ceremony, ancestral language, ecological knowledge, personal testimony, and experimental print techniques. Their work often treats land as relation rather than setting and links cultural survival to political action, language revitalization, and the recovery of community-controlled narratives.
Example
Example in poetry:
Indigenous Literary Renaissance poetry revitalizes Indigenous languages, ceremonies, land relationships, and historical memory while challenging colonial narratives; Joy Harjo’s poems connect Creek identity, music, ancestry, and survival across generations; Simon J. Ortiz’s “From Sand Creek” confronts colonial violence through Indigenous memory and witness; Natalie Diaz’s poetry explores Mojave identity, water, desire, and the continuing effects of settler colonialism; An Indigenous Renaissance poem may place traditional teachings beside contemporary urban experience without treating Indigenous culture as belonging only to the past.
Additional Notes
The Indigenous Literary Renaissance describes a late twentieth-century resurgence of Indigenous poetry, fiction, drama, publishing, and oral storytelling across many regions. Writers often reclaim language, ceremony, land based knowledge, ancestry, and sovereignty while confronting colonization, residential or boarding schools, displacement, and environmental harm. The term includes many distinct nations and traditions, so students should avoid treating Indigenous literature as culturally uniform. Related concepts include decolonization, survivance, testimony, community memory, and revitalization of Indigenous languages.
Also Known As
Indigenous Renaissance Native American Literary Renaissance American Indian Literary Renaissance
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