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

Satsang

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 company of truth, especially spiritual gatherings where seekers listen to teachings, chant, or meditate together.

Detailed Definition
Satsang in poetry is the circle of souls who remember—the whispered word, the shared silence, the breath that lifts. Poets use it to depict awakening as communal: not solitary, but shared. It becomes the poem’s gathering: the reader, the writer, the silent one between—each a part of the same truth, echoing in the same breath.
Example
Example in poetry:
Satsang is the company of truth—Kabir writes: “Satsang is not temple walls—it’s the breath shared between two souls”; A modern poet says: “In Zoom meditation, Satsang blooms—silence holding us, though screens divide”; A haiku: “Three sit in silence—Satsang: no words, just presence”; Another: “Satsang isn’t guru’s voice—it’s the echo of your own heart remembering”; A devotional lyric: “Even in prison, Satsang came—a whispered ‘Ram’ from the next cell”; A minimalist verse: “Together in stillness. / Satsang: truth shared, not taught.”
Additional Notes
Satsang transforms communal gathering into spiritual alchemy; it is not mere lecture but resonance—chanting, silence, and shared presence dissolve egoic boundaries; in poetry, Satsang appears as the “company of the wise” where words fall away and truth is transmitted through stillness, making it essential for interpreting devotional verse as collective awakening, not individual insight, and linking it to Sufi sama or Zen sesshin as cross-traditional practices of sacred listening.
Also Known As
Company of Truth Spiritual Gathering Sadhu Sanga Truth Assembly
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