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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Turiya

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 fourth state of consciousness beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, representing pure awareness in Advaita Vedanta.

Detailed Definition
Turiya in poetry is the silence between thoughts—the space where the self is not known, but is. Poets use it to describe the moment before identity: not dream, not wake, not sleep, but the witness of all. It becomes the poem’s breath: not a line, but the pause that holds every line.
Example
Example in poetry:
Turiya is the fourth state—A Vedantic poet writes: “Turiya: not awake, not asleep, not dreaming—just being, without a ‘I’”; A modern lyric: “In deep meditation, Turiya came—not peace, but the absence of the seeker”; A haiku: “No thought. No watcher. / Turiya: pure awareness”; Another: “Turiya isn’t mystical—it’s the natural state beneath all states”; A devotional verse: “Krishna says: ‘Know Turiya—where the soul remembers it is God’”; A minimalist line: “Fourth state. Beyond waking, dreaming, deep sleep. / Turiya: pure consciousness.”
Additional Notes
Turiya is the fourth state beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep—the pure awareness that witnesses all; in Advaita poetry, it is the “silent witness” behind every thought, the space between breaths; poets like Ramana describe it as “the I that is not I,” making Turiya the goal of all mystical verse, where language dissolves into pure being.
Also Known As
Fourth State Pure Awareness Beyond the Three States Turiya State
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