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 Y

Yogi

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 practitioner of yoga, one who is dedicated to the spiritual discipline of achieving union with the divine.

Detailed Definition
A yogi is one who has renounced worldly attachments to pursue a life of intense spiritual practice, meditation, and asceticism. The term evokes images of sage-like figures possessing deep inner peace and wisdom. In poetry, the yogi serves as an archetype of the dedicated seeker, the one who has turned away from the world to find the truth within. He or she represents the ideal of self-control, contemplation, and the singular pursuit of enlightenment, often acting as a guide or an inspiration.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Hindu poetry, Yogi renounces: “Ash-smeared—Yogi, who finds wealth in nothing”; In Sufi verse, Yogi is seeker: “Desert wanderer—Yogi, thirsting for One”; In contemporary poetry, Yogi is teacher: “Studio guide—Yogi who says, ‘Listen to your body’”; Poets honor Yogi’s silence: “No sermon—Yogi, whose stillness speaks volumes.”
Additional Notes
The Yogi renounces worldly attachments to pursue spiritual realization through meditation, ethical conduct, and ascetic discipline; in poetry, the yogi often appears as a solitary figure in nature—embodying stillness, insight, and detachment—yet also as a compassionate guide whose inner fire radiates outward to awaken others.
Also Known As
Ascetic Sadhu Renunciant Mystic Sadhaka
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