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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Nirmala

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

Pure, stainless, or unblemished, often used to describe the soul, consciousness, or the divine in its pristine, untainted state.

Detailed Definition
Nirmala in poetry is the soul untouched by dust—the mirror that reflects without holding, the sky that holds clouds but is never stained. Poets use it to depict awakening: not becoming pure, but recognizing purity that was always there. It becomes the quiet climax of verse—the moment the poet sees, not what they’ve done, but what they’ve never ceased to be.
Example
Example in poetry:
A purification poem: "Nirmala mind— / like mountain lake, / reflects truth clearly"; A devotional verse: "Bathe in Ganges—/ Nirmala waters / wash karma’s stains"; A modern lyric: "After confession, Nirmala—/ heart light, no residue / of guilt"; A haiku: "Fresh snow on peak—/ Nirmala: pure / without effort"; Another: "Nirmala isn’t perfection—/ it’s the natural state / when veils drop"; A minimalist verse: "Stainless. Pure. Untouched. / Nirmala: pristine / condition."
Additional Notes
Nirmala as stainless purity is the soul’s natural state; in poetry, it appears as untouched lotus, clear water—this makes spiritual progress the removal of impurity, not acquisition, crucial for interpreting verse as purification, not achievement.
Also Known As
Pure Stainless Unblemished Pure Consciousness
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