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 P

Padma

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 lotus flower, a sacred symbol in Hinduism representing purity, beauty, spiritual awakening, and divine birth.

Detailed Definition
The padma blooms unstained from muddy waters, symbolizing the soul’s rise above attachment and suffering. Deities like Lakshmi and Saraswati sit on lotuses; Vishnu holds one; Brahma emerges from one. In poetry, the lotus appears in descriptions of eyes, feet, and hearts—conveying grace, detachment, and unfolding consciousness. Poets use it to express the paradox of being in the world but not of it, and the gradual opening of the self to divine light.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a tantric poem, padma is “the lotus that blooms in mud—symbol of purity in struggle”; A modern verse: “My heart is padma—rooted in pain, flowering in grace”; A minimalist lyric: “Padma: beauty that refuses to be defined by its soil”; A meditation reflection: “Chakra’s lotus opens petal by petal—patience is the gardener.”
Additional Notes
Padma, the lotus flower, is a supremely powerful symbol in Asian religions. It represents purity, spiritual awakening, and non-attachment, as it grows from the mud at the bottom of a pond yet blooms pristine on the surface. Many deities, like Lakshmi and Saraswati, are depicted seated on lotuses. In Buddhist cosmology, different colored lotuses carry different meanings, with the fully bloomed lotus symbolizing full enlightenment.
Also Known As
Kamal Lotus Ganges
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