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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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Waabizheshi

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

An Ojibwe term for the marten, a respected clan animal and spirit symbolizing agility, cunning, and survival.

Detailed Definition
Waabizheshi is the Ojibwe term for marten, a clever, agile animal honored in clan systems and stories as a teacher of strategy and adaptability. In poetry, Waabizheshi symbolizes resourcefulness, quick thinking, and the wisdom of small predators, often invoked in verses about survival, cunning, and the sacred lessons of the northern forests in Anishinaabe life.
Example
Example in poetry:
Waabizheshi, the Ojibwe marten, darts through poems as the clever trapper’s teacher; A verse shows Waabizheshi showing humans which snares honor the animal’s spirit; Poets use Waabizheshi to explore reciprocity: “He gives his pelt only to those who thank him”; In ecological poetry, his tracks mark healthy forests; His eyes become lanterns in verse—piercing darkness with ancestral sight.
Additional Notes
Waabizheshi is the Ojibwe word for “marten,” an animal associated with agility and the fur trade; in some stories, Marten is a minor trickster or helper—poets should use Waabizheshi with linguistic accuracy and recognize its role in clan systems and ecological relationships, not as a generic forest creature.
Also Known As
Marten Weasel
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