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 D

drill

Tools
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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 drill is a hand-held or powered tool that rotates a bit to make holes or drive fasteners.

Detailed Definition
Drills range from early hand-operated forms to modern electric and pneumatic machines, but all focus rotary force through a bit. They appear in poems about workshops, factories, dentistry, mining, warfare, and domestic repair, giving the term a broad emotional range. The noise and insistence of a drill can represent intrusion, industry, or pain, while the hole it creates may suggest access, emptiness, or discovery. Its repetitive penetration also makes it a potent metaphor for questioning, memory, and relentless thought.
Example
Example in poetry:
The drill shrieked through the wall and scattered dust across the floor; A drill may represent relentless questioning that penetrates beneath a surface; The dentist's drill becomes an image of fear through its sound and closeness to the body; In an industrial poem, repeated drilling can suggest mechanical intrusion into earth or flesh.
Additional Notes
The term drill may refer to a hand tool, power tool, industrial machine, or the process of boring itself. Poets can use its noise, vibration, and repetitive penetration to evoke construction, dentistry, mining, warfare, or urban disturbance. A drill may symbolise relentless questioning, intrusive memory, or mechanical force entering the body or earth. Students should identify whether the poem emphasises precision, pain, speed, or noise. Related terms include bit, brace, auger, reamer, boring, machinery, vibration, penetration, repetition, industry, and intrusion.
Other Meanings of “drill”
Also Known As
dibble furrow Maneuver
Skip to main content