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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 B

Bhavani

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 fierce form of the Divine Mother, particularly as consort of Shiva, embodying power, protection, and the transformative force of shakti.

Detailed Definition
Bhavani in poetry is the storm that clears the soul—fierce, maternal, and untamed. Poets invoke her not as gentle nurturer but as destroyer of ego, her trident cleaving illusion, her gaze burning attachment. She transforms devotion into courage, making sacred verse a battlefield where the poet surrenders not to comfort, but to radical transformation.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Shakti poet: "Bhavani’s sword cleaves illusion—/ her third eye sees / what saints pretend"; A devotional verse: "I feared her wrath—/ Bhavani’s fury is love / burning my chains"; A feminist lyric: "Bhavani rides lion, not chariot—/ power that needs / no man’s permission"; A haiku: "Red sindoor on forehead—/ Bhavani’s kiss: fierce grace / for the brave"; Another: "She devours demons—/ Bhavani, the mother / whose lullaby is war"; A minimalist poem: "Tongue out. Sword high. / Bhavani: destruction / as mercy."
Additional Notes
Bhavani’s fierce energy in poetry transforms destruction into liberation; in Kalidasa’s dramas or modern Bengali verse, she is the fire that burns ego, not mere wrath—her imagery of skulls and swords symbolizes the annihilation of illusion, making her central to Tantric poetry where violence becomes purification, crucial for understanding how divine fury serves awakening, not vengeance.
Also Known As
Durga Kali Parvati Mahakali
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