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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Parvati

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 Hindu goddess of love, fertility, and devotion, consort of Shiva, and mother of Ganesha and Kartikeya.

Detailed Definition
Parvati represents the ideal of shakti (divine feminine energy) in its nurturing, devoted, and powerful forms. As the gentle counterpart to Shiva’s austerity, she bridges the domestic and the cosmic, often portrayed as the devoted wife who wins Shiva through penance. In poetry—from the Sanskrit Kumārasambhava to regional bhakti verses—Parvati embodies marital fidelity, maternal strength, and the transformative power of love. She also appears as Durga or Kali in fiercer aspects, showing the range of feminine divinity. Poets use her to explore themes of union, resilience, and the sacredness of earthly relationships as paths to the divine.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a Shakta poem, Pārvatī is “the mountain daughter who tamed Shiva’s storm”; A modern verse: “Pārvatī isn’t passive—she’s the power behind the meditating ascetic”; A minimalist lyric: “Pārvatī: strength in stillness”; A feminist reflection: “She chose him—not as savior, but as equal.”
Additional Notes
Parvati is the Hindu goddess of love, fertility, devotion, and divine power (Shakti). She is the gentle and nurturing consort of Shiva, and her devotion is legendary, as she undertook severe austerities to win him as her husband. She is the mother of Ganesha and Kartikeya. She represents the ideal of the devoted wife and the transformative power of feminine energy, which can be both gentle and fierce (as Durga/Kali).
Also Known As
Uma Gauri Parvati Devi Durga Bhavani
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