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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gimlet

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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 gimlet is a small hand tool with a screw-pointed shaft used for boring holes in wood.

Detailed Definition
A gimlet is turned by its cross-handle so that the threaded point draws the cutting edge into timber. It makes small, neat holes for screws or pegs and was once common in carpentry and household repair. In poetry its modest size contrasts with its ability to penetrate solid material. The tool may suggest persistence, curiosity, or an insistent gaze that bores beneath appearances. Its twisting movement can also evoke worry, guilt, or memory working gradually into the mind until resistance gives way.
Example
Example in poetry:
The gimlet turned slowly, boring a neat hole in the wooden frame; A gimlet may represent a persistent thought that works beneath a calm surface; Her gaze was sharp as a gimlet and seemed to pierce every disguise; In a carpentry poem, the small tool can show how precision achieves what force alone cannot.
Additional Notes
A gimlet is smaller and simpler than most drills, with a screw-like point that draws itself into wood as the handle turns. It frequently appears in older writing as a familiar carpenter's or household tool. In figurative language, gimlet-eyed describes an unusually sharp or penetrating gaze. Poets may therefore use the tool to suggest persistence, scrutiny, suspicion, or a thought that bores steadily inward. Related terms include auger, brace, bit, drill, boring, screw point, carpentry, penetration, observation, persistence, sharpness, and concentrated attention.
Also Known As
twist gimlet hand gimlet
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