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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Waziya

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 Lakota mythological giant associated with the north, winter, and cold, embodying primordial elemental forces.

Detailed Definition
Waziya is the Lakota giant who lives in the north, bringing winter and testing human endurance. He embodies the harshness of cold and the necessity of preparation. In poetry, Waziya symbolizes the challenges of survival, the power of the north, and the spiritual lessons of hardship, often invoked in verses about resilience, humility, and the seasonal rhythms of Plains life.
Example
Example in poetry:
Waziya, the Lakota North Wind giant, bites through poems as winter’s harsh but necessary teacher; A verse describes Waziya testing hunters’ resolve with blizzards; Poets use Waziya to symbolize endurance: “He strips away weakness so strength remains”; In seasonal poetry, his retreat marks the return of hope; His breath becomes clarity in verse—cold, sharp, and revealing.
Additional Notes
Waziya is the Lakota personification of the North Wind and winter, a giant who brings cold and hardship; he is part of the four-directional wind system—poets can use Waziya to explore seasonal cycles and resilience, but should present him within the Lakota understanding of balance, where even harsh forces have purpose.
Also Known As
North Wind Old Man of the North
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