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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Miwok

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 Californian people whose oral traditions feature Coyote as a central trickster and creator figure.

Detailed Definition
The Miwok people of California tell of Coyote as a central creator and trickster who shaped the world and brought fire. Their cosmology emphasizes local landscapes and animal spirits. In poetry, Miwok references evoke Sierra Nevada spirituality, ecological intimacy, and the survival of small tribes, often used to explore themes of place-based identity and the resilience of California indigenous cultures.
Example
Example in poetry:
Miwok, referencing the California people, appears in poetry as the acorn’s patient voice in oak groves; A verse uses “Miwok” to honor basket-weaving as mathematics and art; Contemporary poets invoke Miwok fire ecology to critique suppression policies; In lyrical form, Miwok grandmothers grind acorns into stories that feed; Miwok identity becomes a tule boat in verse—buoyant despite storms.
Additional Notes
Miwok people of California tell stories of Coyote creating humans and the world; their mythology is tied to local landscapes like Mount Diablo—poets should engage with Miwok specificity and avoid blending them with other California tribes’ narratives.
Also Known As
California people bear dancers Sierra tribe
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