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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Amrit

World Religion
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 sacred nectar of immortality in Hinduism and Sikhism, often used in initiation rituals.

Detailed Definition
In Hindu mythology, Amrit emerged from the churning of the ocean of milk and is the prize sought by devas and asuras. In Sikhism, it is the sweetened water used in the Amrit Sanchar ceremony, initiating members into the Khalsa. Poetically, Amrit represents divine grace, spiritual immortality, and the elixir of true knowledge that liberates the soul from the cycle of birth and death. It is a potent metaphor for that which quenches the soul's deepest thirst, offering a taste of the eternal and transforming the mortal seeker into a divine being.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Sikh poetry, amrit (“nectar of immortality”) symbolizes divine grace received through initiation, as in the line: “The Guru’s word is amrit—drink and awaken”; In Hindu bhakti poetry, amrit drips from Krishna’s lips during the rasa lila, representing divine love’s intoxicating sweetness; Sufi poets liken the beloved’s glance to amrit that revives the dying heart; Contemporary poets use amrit to describe moments of epiphany: “In the silence after prayer, amrit pooled in my palms.”
Additional Notes
Amrit, meaning “nectar of immortality,” is prepared by stirring water and sugar with a double-edged sword (khanda) during the Sikh Amrit Sanskar initiation, symbolizing spiritual rebirth; in Hindu texts like the Puranas, amrit emerges from the churning of the cosmic ocean, representing divine grace won through struggle—both contexts offer rich allegorical material for poets exploring transformation and divine sustenance.
Also Known As
Amrita Nectar of Immortality Nectar
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