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 R

razor

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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 razor is a very sharp-bladed tool used for shaving hair close to the skin or making exceptionally fine cuts.

Detailed Definition
The razor's thin edge and intimate contact with the body give it strong poetic associations with grooming, masculinity, age, vulnerability, and danger. It may appear in a morning ritual, a barber's shop, surgery, violence, or self-destruction, depending on context. Because it removes the slightest growth with precision, poets may use it to suggest severity, clarity, or a boundary sharpened to almost nothing. Its gleam and potential for sudden injury often intensify images of fragility and controlled risk.
Example
Example in poetry:
The barber opened the razor and drew the blade carefully across the skin; A razor may symbolise precision, vulnerability, danger, or severe clarity; In a morning poem, shaving can become a meditation on ageing and identity; The horizon was described as a razor-thin line dividing sea from sky.
Additional Notes
The razor combines extreme sharpness with intimate contact with skin, giving it strong associations with vulnerability and controlled danger. It may appear in shaving rituals, barbering, surgery, violence, or self-harm, depending on context. Poets also use razor metaphorically for very thin edges, cold winds, sharp intelligence, and severe distinctions. Students should interpret such imagery sensitively. Related terms include knife, blade, shaving, barber, edge, skin, mirror, blood, precision, danger, masculinity, ageing, fragility, and razor-thin boundaries.
Also Known As
shaver shaving razor
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