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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Amrita Bindu

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

The drop of nectar, symbolizing immortality and divine essence, often associated with the crown chakra or the elixir of spiritual awakening in yogic traditions.

Detailed Definition
Amrita Bindu in poetry is the hidden jewel of inner alchemy—the moment grace descends, transforming mortality into eternity. Poets describe it as a drop falling from the crown, melting the veil between self and source, often in images of moonlight, honey, or dew. It signifies the climax of spiritual practice: the silent realization that immortality is not distant, but within.
Example
Example in poetry:
A yogic poem: "At crown, a drop descends—/ Amrita Bindu, nectar / melting the knot of fear"; A tantric verse: "From moon to lotus, falls / Amrita Bindu—sweetness / that turns dust to gold"; A meditative lyric: "In deep stillness, I taste it—/ Amrita Bindu, the soul’s / secret elixir"; A haiku: "Midnight meditation—/ Amrita Bindu drips, / and I am reborn"; Another: "She offered me honey—/ unknowingly, Amrita Bindu / in a clay bowl"; A minimalist verse: "One drop. / Death undone. / Amrita Bindu."
Additional Notes
Amrita Bindu, the nectar at the crown, is the culmination of kundalini ascent; in devotional poetry, it symbolizes the dissolution of ego into immortality, often described as “dropping the drop” into the infinite—this image appears in Sufi and Tantric verse alike, where divine ecstasy is a liquid, sweet overflow, making it vital for interpreting mystical poetry that uses bodily metaphors to convey transcendence beyond physical death.
Also Known As
Nectar Drop Bindu of Immortality
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