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

Home › Glossary › Letter B

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

A dot or point in Hindu and tantric symbolism, representing the origin of creation, concentrated consciousness, or the third eye.

Detailed Definition
Bindu is the seed of the universe—the unmanifest potential from which all forms emerge. In yantras, it sits at the center; in meditation, it focuses the mind. In poetry, bindu appears as the spark of divinity within, the moment of insight, or the drop of nectar (amrita). Poets use it to convey unity, the infinitesimal source of infinity, and the still point around which the cosmos turns. It symbolizes both origin and return.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a tantric poem, the bindu is “the dot from which all alphabets—and universes—unfold”; A minimalist verse: “Bindu: the full stop that births a new sentence of light”; A meditation lyric: “The seed in the heart’s cave, waiting to bloom as cosmos”; A modern metaphor: “Bindu is the black hole that sings the universe into being.”
Additional Notes
Bindu, meaning “point” or “drop,” signifies the unmanifest source of creation in Tantra and Yoga. In yantras (sacred diagrams), it marks the center—the still point from which energy radiates. Philosophically, bindu represents concentrated consciousness or the seed of sound (nada-bindu). In poetry, it evokes singularity before multiplicity: Kabir uses bindu to describe the ineffable One beyond form. For students of mysticism, bindu illustrates how abstract metaphysics inform visual and verbal art, linking geometry, sound, and silence in meditative aesthetics.
Also Known As
Dot Point Seed
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