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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Yogeshwar

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 Lord of Yoga, a title for Shiva as the supreme master of yogic wisdom and spiritual discipline.

Detailed Definition
Yogeshwar in poetry is the silent teacher who never speaks—his posture the stillness, his gaze the awakening. Poets use him to depict mastery not as power, but as presence: the one who sits, and the world becomes still. He becomes the poem’s center: not the writer, but the space where writing ends, and being begins.
Example
Example in poetry:
Yogeshwar is the Lord of Yoga—A Shaiva poem: “Yogeshwar doesn’t teach posture—he teaches the silence between breaths”; A modern lyric: “In yoga class, I felt Yogeshwar—not in the teacher, but in the stillness after the pose”; A haiku: “Stillness after pose—Yogeshwar: / master of the pause”; Another: “Yogeshwar isn’t Shiva as deity—he’s the force that pulls the soul inward”; A devotional verse: “You seek a guru—Yogeshwar is the inner pull that leads you home”; A minimalist line: “Lord of Yoga. Master of stillness. / Yogeshwar: the inner guide.”
Additional Notes
Yogeshwar is Shiva as the supreme master of yoga; in verse, he is the silent teacher within, the source of all discipline; invoking Yogeshwar is to surrender to the inner guide, making poetry a dialogue with the divine yogi, essential for interpreting ascetic verse as received wisdom, not personal insight.
Also Known As
Lord of Yoga Supreme Yogi Adi Yogi Shiva as Yogeshwar
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