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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Miohpoisiks

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

Blackfoot celestial beings or Star Spirits believed to influence human affairs, often appearing in cosmological or visionary poetry.

Detailed Definition
Miohpoisiks are the Blackfoot Star Beings, powerful sky spirits who influence fate and appear in dreams. They are part of a complex celestial cosmology linking stars to guidance and destiny. In poetry, Miohpoisiks symbolize cosmic order, ancestral navigation, and the spiritual map written in the night sky, often invoked in verses about vision, purpose, and the connection between earth and heavens.
Example
Example in poetry:
Miohpoisiks, the Blackfoot star beings, shimmer through poems as ancestors watching over night travelers; A verse describes Miohpoisiks arranging constellations to guide buffalo hunts; Poets use Miohpoisiks to explore cosmic kinship: “We are stardust walking”; In contemporary verse, they witness pipeline protests from above; Their light becomes a promise in verse—eternal and guiding.
Additional Notes
Miohpoisiks are Blackfoot star beings who descend to earth; they connect celestial and terrestrial realms—poets can draw on them for cosmic themes, but should situate them within Blackfoot astronomical knowledge and oral tradition.
Also Known As
sacred name Blackfoot term spiritual essence
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