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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scraper

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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 scraper is a tool with an edge or blade used to remove paint, dirt, residue, bark, or fine surface irregularities.

Detailed Definition
Scrapers work by drawing or pushing an edge across a surface to strip away unwanted layers. They are used in woodworking, decorating, cleaning, printing, farming, and many specialised crafts. In poetry the action of scraping may evoke restoration, poverty, irritation, or exposure, since it reveals what lies beneath accumulated matter. The tool can symbolise memory being uncovered, identity stripped of disguise, or harsh experience wearing a surface raw, while its repetitive sound adds tactile realism to scenes of labour.
Example
Example in poetry:
The decorator pushed the scraper beneath the old paint and exposed an earlier colour; A scraper may symbolise the removal of disguises or accumulated history; Its repetitive action can suggest poverty, repair, or harsh persistence; In a restoration poem, each stripped layer reveals another period hidden beneath the surface.
Additional Notes
A scraper removes unwanted layers rather than cutting deeply into the underlying material. It may strip paint, bark, glue, residue, or fine irregularities from wood and other surfaces. In poetry the process can represent restoration, exposure, poverty, persistence, or the removal of disguise. Each revealed layer may correspond to an earlier history or hidden identity. Related terms include file, rasp, plane, paint, bark, surface, stripping, cleaning, abrasion, restoration, concealment, exposure, memory, and the uncovering of what time has covered.
Also Known As
Reco-reco
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