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 D

Drishti

World Religion
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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 focused gaze or inner vision in yoga and meditation, directing attention inward or toward a sacred point to cultivate awareness.

Detailed Definition
Drishti in poetry is the unseen eye that sees beyond form—the gaze that fixes not on the world, but on the witness within. Poets use it to describe the still point in the storm of thought, where attention becomes altar. It turns verse into a mirror: the reader learns not to look outward, but to see through the eyes that have always been there.
Example
Example in poetry:
A yogic poem: "Drishti on tip of nose—/ world blurs, focus sharpens, / mind settles"; A martial verse: "Warrior’s Drishti—/ not on enemy, but on / the space between"; A modern lyric: "Drishti in therapy—/ gaze on truth, not shame, / healing begins"; A haiku: "Eyes fixed ahead—/ Drishti: steady path / through fog"; Another: "Drishti isn’t staring—/ it’s seeing without / distortion"; A minimalist verse: "One point. Clear sight. / Drishti: focused / awareness."
Additional Notes
Drishti is the gaze that directs consciousness inward; in poetic imagery, it appears as the “third eye” or fixed horizon, guiding reader and poet alike into stillness—Sufi poets use it as “the eye of the heart,” making vision a spiritual practice; in yoga verse, drishti turns description into meditation, making the poem a tool for inner focus, not just reflection.
Also Known As
Gaze Inner Vision Focused Look
Skip to main content