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.

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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Chinmayi

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 embodiment of pure consciousness, often used as a name for the divine feminine in advaitic traditions, representing the essence of awareness.

Detailed Definition
Chinmayi in poetry is the silent knowing that underlies all experience—the feminine face of pure awareness, not as deity but as the ground of being. Poets use her to personify the mind’s stillness, the breath before thought, the space between heartbeats. She is not worshipped but recognized—making verse a mirror in which the reader sees not a goddess, but their own luminous essence.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Advaita poem: "Chinmayi isn’t ‘she’—/ she’s the knowing / that knows itself"; A devotional verse: "I sought goddess in stone—/ Chinmayi laughed: ‘I am / the awareness in your search’"; A mystical lyric: "Chinmayi’s form is formless—/ mirror that shows / only truth"; A haiku: "Still pond reflects moon—/ Chinmayi: consciousness / wearing water"; Another: "Chinmayi needs no temple—/ she lives in the pause / between thoughts"; A minimalist verse: "Not person. Not thing. / Chinmayi: pure / awareness."
Additional Notes
Chinmayi as divine feminine consciousness is the silent power behind all manifestation; in Tantric poetry, she is not consort but the very medium of awareness—poets invoke her as the “she who knows” in verses that dissolve gender, making her essential for interpreting non-dual poetry where the feminine is not symbol but the ground of being.
Also Known As
Consciousness Embodied Divine Feminine Awareness
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