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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Nirvana

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 ultimate goal in Buddhism, signifying liberation from the cycle of rebirth (samsara) and the extinguishing of craving, ignorance, and suffering.

Detailed Definition
Nirvana is not annihilation but a state of perfect peace and freedom beyond conditioned existence. In Buddhist poetry and literature, it often appears as a metaphor for inner quietude, release from illusion, or the end of emotional turbulence. Poets use natural imagery—such as a flame going out or a river merging with the ocean—to suggest its serene, ungraspable nature, making it a powerful symbol of spiritual culmination.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Buddhist poem: “Nirvāṇa is not heaven—it’s the extinguishing of craving’s fire”; In a modern verse, “Nirvāṇa isn’t death—it’s waking up from the dream of ‘I’”; A minimalist reflection: “Nirvāṇa: coolness after the blaze”; A student’s lyric: “I thought it was escape—now I see it’s presence, pure.”
Additional Notes
Nirvana (Pali: Nibbana) is the ultimate goal of Buddhism: the extinguishing of the fires of greed, hatred, and delusion that cause suffering. It is the unconditioned state beyond birth and death (Samsara), often described as peace, freedom, and the highest bliss. It is not a heavenly paradise but a profound psychological and ontological transformation. The Buddha attained Nirvana upon his enlightenment and entered Parinirvana at his death.
Also Known As
Nibbana Enlightenment Liberation
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