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 R

Radha

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 divine beloved of Krishna in bhakti poetry, symbol of selfless love and the soul’s yearning for union with God.

Detailed Definition
Radha, though absent from early scriptures, becomes central in medieval bhakti literature—especially the Gita Govinda—as Krishna’s eternal consort and the epitome of madhurya bhakti (sweet devotion). Her love for Krishna is passionate, unconditional, and often marked by separation (viraha), symbolizing the soul’s longing for the divine. In poetry, Radha represents the devotee’s inner emotional landscape—ecstasy, jealousy, despair, and surrender. Poets use her to explore the intensity of spiritual love, where human emotion becomes a vehicle for transcendence, and the boundaries between lover and beloved dissolve in divine union.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a bhakti poem, Rādhā is “Krishna’s mirror—her love reveals his divinity”; A modern verse: “Rādhā isn’t wife—she’s the soul’s unbridled longing”; A minimalist lyric: “Rādhā: devotion without doctrine”; A feminist reflection: “She chose love over marriage—freedom over form.”
Additional Notes
Radha is the chief consort and eternal beloved of Lord Krishna in Hindu tradition, particularly within the Bhakti movement. Their love is the supreme metaphor for the soul's (Jiva) passionate, selfless, and often painful longing for union with the divine (Brahman). While not extensively mentioned in the Puranas, her prominence grew through texts like the Bhagavata Purana and the poetic works of Jayadeva's Gita Govinda.
Also Known As
Radhe Radhika Radharani
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