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 M

Mystic

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 person who seeks direct, experiential union with the ultimate reality or divinity.

Detailed Definition
Mystics across traditions—from Sufis in Islam to Kabbalists in Judaism to Christian contemplatives—pursue an intimate, unmediated knowledge of God. They often use poetry as a primary medium to express their ineffable experiences of divine love, unity, and ecstasy. The mystic's journey, with its stages of purgation, illumination, and union, provides a rich narrative structure for poetry. Their work is characterized by intense imagery of longing, intoxication, and the dissolution of the self, making the spiritual tangible.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Rumi’s poetry, the Mystic dissolves in love: “I am drunk, mad, lost—Mystic beyond reason”; In Christian mysticism, the Mystic seeks union: “Dark night of the soul—Mystic walks by faith, not sight”; In Hindu verse, the Mystic sees God in all: “Cow, thief, king—Mystic bows to the One in each”; Contemporary poets describe Mystic as boundary-crosser: “Mystic speaks all languages—silence is her mother tongue.”
Additional Notes
Mystics—Teresa of Ávila, Rumi, Hildegard, Ramakrishna—prioritize direct encounter over doctrine; their writings overflow with metaphor (wine, fire, bridal union) to convey ineffable union; for poetry students, mystic texts model how language can stretch toward the unsayable, using sensory imagery to map inner landscapes of longing, darkness, and luminous unity.
Also Known As
Sufi Yogi Contemplative Sant druid
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