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

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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 is a sharp-edged metal tool struck or pushed to cut, carve, or shape wood, stone, or metal.

Detailed Definition
A chisel concentrates force along a narrow cutting edge, enabling a craftsperson to remove material with precision. Different forms belong to carpentry, masonry, sculpture, and metalwork. In poetry it frequently represents the disciplined act of giving form to resistance: the sculptor releases a figure from stone, the mason shapes a building block, or time chisels lines into a face. Its mixture of violence and artistry makes it a powerful emblem of creation, revision, suffering, and the gradual revelation of hidden form.
Example
Example in poetry:
The sculptor set the chisel against the marble and released a human face; A chisel often symbolises creation achieved by removing what is unnecessary; Time worked like a chisel upon the weathered doorway; In a craft poem, the chisel's repeated blows can echo discipline, suffering, and revelation.
Additional Notes
A chisel works by concentrating pressure along a narrow cutting edge and may be pushed by hand or struck with a mallet or hammer. It appears in poetry concerning carpentry, masonry, sculpture, monuments, and artistic creation. Because a chisel produces form by removing material, it often symbolises refinement, revelation, discipline, or loss. Time and suffering are frequently imagined as chisels shaping faces or character. Related terms include mallet, hammer, burin, cold chisel, carving, sculpture, stone, wood, incision, craftsmanship, reduction, and hidden form.
Other Meanings of “chisel”
Also Known As
Carving Chisel Sculpting Tool Wood Chisel
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