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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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crowbar

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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 crowbar is a strong metal bar, usually with a curved or forked end, used for prising, levering, or breaking objects apart.

Detailed Definition
A crowbar multiplies human force through leverage and is used in demolition, rescue, construction, and forced entry. Its stark form and association with breaking make it a vivid poetic object, capable of suggesting labour, revolt, burglary, or liberation. Unlike a delicate cutting tool, it succeeds by finding a gap and widening it. Poets may use this action metaphorically for prising open memory, institutions, silence, or the heart, making the crowbar an emblem of determined intrusion and disruptive change.
Example
Example in poetry:
They forced the door with a crowbar, widening the first narrow crack; A crowbar may symbolise rebellion, intrusion, or liberation through leverage; His question entered the silence like a crowbar beneath a locked lid; In a demolition poem, the tool can suggest both destruction and the recovery of trapped space.
Additional Notes
A crowbar uses leverage to prise, lift, separate, or demolish, often succeeding by entering a narrow gap and making it wider. In poetry it may appear in construction, burglary, rescue, industrial labour, or rebellion. Metaphorically, it can force open memory, silence, institutions, or emotional defences. Its disruptive power may be destructive or liberating depending on what is being opened. Related terms include lever, demolition, forced entry, wrecking bar, iron bar, resistance, rupture, liberation, intrusion, pressure, opening, and social change.
Also Known As
pry bar wrecking bar jemmy jimmy gooseneck bar
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