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 S

stitching awl

Tools
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 stitching awl is a pointed sewing tool used to pierce and stitch heavy materials such as leather, canvas, or sailcloth.

Detailed Definition
A stitching awl combines a strong point with a thread system or eye, allowing thick materials to be pierced and sewn where an ordinary needle would bend or fail. Shoemakers, saddlers, sailmakers, and leatherworkers use it for durable seams and repairs. In poetry it may evoke travelling kits, maritime labour, poverty, or meticulous craft. Each puncture creates the path for a binding thread, so the tool can symbolise painful repair, resilience, and the labour required to join what is tough, worn, or torn.
Example
Example in poetry:
The shoemaker forced the stitching awl through the thick leather sole; A stitching awl may symbolise painful repair because each puncture allows a binding thread to pass; In maritime poetry, it can appear in the mending of sails or heavy canvas; The tool demonstrates how damaged, resistant materials can be joined through patience and strength.
Additional Notes
A stitching awl is stronger than an ordinary needle and is intended for leather, canvas, sailcloth, and other resistant materials. It may pierce the hole and carry thread through it in a single operation. In poetry this combination of puncture and repair can symbolise resilience, since every wound creates a route for binding. The tool may also evoke shoemakers, saddlers, sailors, and travelling repair kits. Related terms include awl, needle, bodkin, leather, canvas, sail, thread, seam, shoemaking, saddlery, repair, puncture, endurance, and durable joining.
Also Known As
sewing awl saddler's awl harness awl cobbler's awl
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