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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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Keshava

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 name of Vishnu meaning “one with long, beautiful hair,” often used in devotional poetry to evoke his divine form and grace.

Detailed Definition
Keshava in poetry is the god with flowing locks, the one whose hair catches the wind like a river of light. Poets use his name to evoke tenderness—the divine not as king, but as beloved, his curls the softness of grace. In bhakti verse, Keshava becomes the face in the mirror of longing, the one who holds the soul not with power, but with beauty.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Vaishnava poem: "Keshava’s curls— / catch moonlight, catch my tears, / hold my prayers"; A devotional verse: "In storm, I call Keshava—/ his long hair shields me / like a mother’s sari"; A modern lyric: "Keshava in barber shop—/ mirror shows my hair, / but I see his grace"; A haiku: "Wind through trees—/ Keshava’s tresses / whisper comfort"; Another: "Keshava’s beauty—/ not for worship, but / to draw the soul home"; A minimalist verse: "Long hair. Gentle eyes. / Keshava: Vishnu / as beloved."
Additional Notes
Keshava’s long hair symbolizes divine abundance; in devotional poetry, it evokes Krishna’s playfulness and beauty, making it a tactile image of grace—students must recognize it as emblem of divine accessibility, not just aesthetics, crucial for interpreting bhakti poetry where the divine is intimately human.
Also Known As
Kesava One with Long Hair Vishnu’s Name
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