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.

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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Vishnu Sahasranama

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 thousand names of Vishnu, recited as a devotional hymn in Hinduism, each name revealing a divine quality or aspect.

Detailed Definition
Vishnu Sahasranama in poetry is the endless litany of grace—the names that do not end, the love that has no limit. Poets use it to structure verse as prayer: each name a breath, each syllable a hand reaching. It becomes the poem’s tide: never complete, always returning, always holding the soul.
Example
Example in poetry:
Vishnu Sahasranama is the thousand names of Vishnu—A Vaishnava poet sings: “Each name a wave—Vishnu Sahasranama, ocean of grace”; A modern lyric: “I chant Vishnu Sahasranama in traffic—each name a lifeline, each breath a prayer”; A haiku: “One thousand names—Vishnu Sahasranama: / love in syllables”; Another: “Vishnu Sahasranama isn’t list—it’s the soul’s map to the Beloved”; A devotional verse: “Recite one name—Vishnu Sahasranama reveals: ‘I am here’”; A minimalist line: “Thousand names. Divine qualities. / Vishnu Sahasranama: devotion in repetition.”
Additional Notes
Vishnu Sahasranama is not a list but a sonic mandala; each name is a vibration, a doorway to divine quality; reciting it is meditation in motion; in poetry, it appears as cumulative invocation—“O Protector, O Sustainer, O Light”—making the poem itself a mantra, essential for interpreting devotional verse as sonic pilgrimage, not literary catalog.
Also Known As
Thousand Names of Vishnu Vishnu Sahasranamam Vishnu’s Thousand Names
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