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

Home › Glossary › Letter P

Peo

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

Peo is a Shoshone term meaning “people” and refers to the community itself rather than a mythological figure or deity in Native cosmology.

Detailed Definition
Peo is a Shoshone term meaning “people,” used in self-identification rather than as a mythological entity. It reflects the centrality of community in indigenous identity. In poetry, Peo symbolizes collective belonging, linguistic pride, and the continuity of Shoshone presence in the Great Basin, often used to explore themes of kinship, survival, and the power of self-naming in resisting erasure.
Example
Example in poetry:
Peo, referencing the Shoshone people (often used historically), appears in poetry as the sagebrush whisperer of high desert survival; A verse uses “Peo” to honor rabbit-skin blanket weaving as thermal science; Contemporary poets invoke Peo star lore for night navigation; In lyrical form, Peo elders read snow tracks like prophecy; Peo identity becomes a bitterroot bloom in verse—rare, resilient, and sustaining.
Additional Notes
Peo is not a widely attested mythological term in major Native traditions; it may be a variant spelling, a personal name, or a localized figure—poets should verify sources and tribal context before usage, as misattribution is common in older ethnographies; if referencing the Shoshone-Paiute “Peo” as a people, clarify that it is an exonym and use preferred tribal names (e.g., Shoshone, Bannock).
Also Known As
Peoria
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