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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Bodhi

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

Enlightenment or awakening in Buddhism, the state attained by the Buddha under the Bodhi tree, realizing the Four Noble Truths.

Detailed Definition
Though primarily Buddhist, bodhi appears in Hindu contexts through shared Indian philosophical discourse, especially in Advaita and yoga traditions that value self-realization. In poetry, bodhi symbolizes the sudden or gradual dawning of truth—the end of illusion and suffering. Poets use it to describe moments of insight, whether through meditation, grace, or crisis. It represents the ultimate clarity: seeing reality as it is, free from craving, fear, and false identity.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Zen poem: “Bodhi is the moon seen clearly when the pond stops trembling”; A modern definition: “Not knowledge added, but illusion removed”; A student’s lyric: “I chased bodhi for years—then tripped over it in my own shadow”; A minimalist statement: “Bodhi: awake, not enlightened—just awake.”
Additional Notes
Bodhi, from the root “budh” (to awaken), denotes the direct realization of the Four Noble Truths and cessation of ignorance. It is not intellectual knowledge but experiential insight into anicca, dukkha, and anatta. The Bodhi Tree (Ficus religiosa) is venerated as a living relic. In Mahayana, bodhi expands to include compassion for all beings. Poets describe bodhi as light piercing darkness or a lotus blooming in mud—images of clarity emerging from confusion. For students, bodhi represents the goal of Buddhist practice: freedom through seeing things as they are.
Also Known As
Enlightenment Awakening
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