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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Mimih Spirit

Folklore
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 slender spirit of the Australian landscape in Aboriginal Australian traditions, associated with cliffs and rocky country.

Detailed Definition
Mimih spirits are beings in the traditions of several Aboriginal peoples of northern Australia, especially Arnhem Land, where they are associated with narrow rock crevices, cliffs, and the landscape’s hidden life. They are often represented as extremely thin figures who move with the wind and teach or influence human communities in different local accounts. Poetry can use the Mimih Spirit to suggest ancestral presence, fragile strength, and knowledge written into stone, but should honor the specific cultural context rather than flattening diverse traditions into one image.
Example
Example in poetry:
An Australian-inspired poem may present a Mimih Spirit as a slender being moving along steep rock faces; The poet can use swift, almost invisible motion to suggest the spirit’s connection with cliffs and wind; A child learning to read the landscape might mistake a Mimih Spirit for a line of shadow; Careful attention to place and cultural context is important when adapting this Indigenous folklore figure.
Additional Notes
Mimih spirits are slender, elusive beings in Aboriginal Australian traditions, especially associated in popular descriptions with cliffs, rock shelters, and rugged country. The term is connected particularly with Arnhem Land traditions, though cultural meanings and spellings should not be generalized across all Aboriginal nations. In educational or poetic use, it is best to emphasize landscape, movement, and local cultural context rather than reducing mimih to generic “cave ghosts.” Related ideas include rock art, ancestral country, escarpments, and spirit beings. Respectful writing should acknowledge that these traditions belong to living cultures, not merely to fantasy.
Also Known As
Mimi Mimis
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