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 S

Sat

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 eternal, unchanging reality or truth, the essence of being, often equated with Brahman in Advaita Vedanta.

Detailed Definition
Sat in poetry is the one thing that remains when all else falls—the silence after the last word, the breath after the last sigh. Poets use it to name the unnameable: not God, but being. It becomes the poem’s ground: not metaphor, but truth—the only thing that has never been born, and will never die.
Example
Example in poetry:
Sat is the unchanging truth—Upanishadic verse says: “Sat alone remains when all names fade, all forms dissolve”; A modern poet writes: “In grief, I touch Sat—the one thing death cannot steal”; A mystical lyric: “Sat isn’t God—it’s the ground God stands on”; A haiku: “Stone endures, river flows—Sat: the stillness behind change”; Another poem: “You seek truth in books—Sat whispers: ‘I am here, in this breath, now’”; A minimalist verse: “Existence. Reality. Being. / Sat: the only constant.”
Additional Notes
Sat is the bedrock of Advaita Vedanta, the immutable “is-ness” that persists beyond all change, making it the silent subject of all experience; in poetry, Sat appears as the unchanging moon, the still center in a storm, or the “I am” that outlasts thought—students must distinguish it from mere existence: Sat is being itself, the ground of all phenomena, and its invocation in verse signals the poet’s recognition of the eternal beneath the ephemeral, essential for interpreting mystical poetry as ontological revelation.
Also Known As
Truth Being Existence Eternal Reality
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