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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Yajna

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

A Vedic ritual of offering, often involving fire, chanting, and sacrifice, symbolizing the cosmic exchange between human and divine.

Detailed Definition
Yajna in poetry is the sacred act of giving—the breath as offering, the word as fire, the silence as altar. Poets use it to frame creation as ritual: every line is a grain, every pause a flame. It becomes the poem’s purpose: not to be read, but to be offered—each verse a whisper to the unseen.
Example
Example in poetry:
Yajna is sacred offering—A Vedic poet writes: “Yajna: ghee into flame, breath into mantra, ego into surrender”; A modern lyric: “I gave my silence to a grieving friend—Yajna: no words, just presence”; A haiku: “Fire consumes—Yajna: / offering becomes smoke”; Another: “Yajna isn’t ritual—it’s the act of giving without expecting return”; A devotional verse: “Krishna says: ‘All actions are Yajna when offered to me’”; A minimalist line: “Sacred offering. Ritual sacrifice. / Yajna: giving as worship.”
Additional Notes
Yajna is cosmic exchange: offering into fire, receiving grace; in poetry, it becomes metaphor for sacrifice—giving ego, desire, identity; the poet becomes the offering, the line the oblation, making composition a ritual act, essential for interpreting spiritual verse as sacred reciprocity, not self-expression.
Also Known As
Yagna Vedic Sacrifice Fire Ritual Ritual Offering Homa Sacrifice
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