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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Chisel Mark

Craft Terms
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 chisel mark is a visible trace of force, selection, or removal left by revision.

Detailed Definition
A chisel mark is the evidence that a poem has been cut into shape. It may appear as a sudden fragment, a hard enjambment, a conspicuous omission, or a word whose starkness records an act of choosing. Such marks can give language authority because they show resistance rather than effortless smoothness. A poet should not erase every sign of labor; in an elegy or political poem, the roughness of the cut may preserve urgency and remind readers that form has ethical consequences.
Example
Example in poetry:
A chisel mark is a visible sign of deliberate cutting, and a poem can preserve one through a startling fragment or abrupt line break; Removing a predictable adjective may leave a chisel mark that makes the remaining noun more forceful; A caesura can resemble a chisel mark by cutting a clean interruption into an otherwise flowing sentence; The compressed syntax of Emily Dickinson’s poems often shows chisel marks where dashes and omissions shape the reader’s movement
Additional Notes
A chisel mark is the trace left when revision removes, reshapes, or sharply defines material. It may appear as a conspicuous pause, a clipped phrase, an unusual line break, or an image stripped of explanation. Such marks can give a poem energy and honesty by showing pressure and decision. They need not be concealed, but each should serve rhythm, emphasis, or meaning rather than advertise the act of editing.
Also Known As
Tool Mark Incised Mark
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