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 V

Vishnu

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 preserver god, central to Vaishnavism, known for his avatars like Rama and Krishna who restore cosmic order.

Detailed Definition
Vishnu represents divine compassion, stability, and the sustaining force of the universe in Hindu theology. Revered especially in devotional (bhakti) poetry, he is celebrated for descending to earth in various incarnations to combat evil and uphold dharma. Literary works such as the Bhagavata Purana and countless regional bhajans extol his grace, beauty, and protective nature. Poets use Vishnu’s imagery—reclining on the serpent Shesha, holding the conch and discus—to evoke themes of cosmic balance, divine love, and the soul’s yearning for refuge. His presence in poetry often signifies hope, redemption, and the eternal rhythm of preservation amid chaos.
Example
Example in poetry:
Devotional poets invoke Vishnu as "the Preserver who sleeps on cosmic serpent Shesha's coils"; A poet might describe "Vishnu's ten avatars descending through the ages to restore dharma"; In narrative verse, "Vishnu as Rama walked through Ayodhya's gates, righteousness incarnate"; Contemporary Hindu poetry references "Vishnu's blue skin like twilight sky, four arms holding cosmos in balance"; A bhakti poem celebrates "Vishnu reclining on the ocean of milk, dreaming worlds into being"; Mythological poetry depicts "when chaos threatened creation, Vishnu took form and descended"
Additional Notes
Vishnu is the "preserver" god in the Hindu Trimurti. He is known for his descent to earth in various avatars (incarnations) to restore cosmic order (dharma) whenever it is threatened. His most famous avatars are Rama and Krishna. He is often depicted lying on the cosmic serpent Shesha, or standing with his four attributes: conch, discus, mace, and lotus. For poets, Vishnu represents the sustaining force of the universe, divine intervention, and the promise of hope and order in times of chaos.
Also Known As
Narayana Hari Vasudeva
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