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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tomahawk

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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 tomahawk is a small axe traditionally used by Indigenous peoples of North America as a tool and, at times, a weapon.

Detailed Definition
Tomahawks developed in diverse forms, including stone-headed tools and later iron trade axes, and served for chopping, hunting, ceremony, exchange, and combat. In poetry the word may evoke frontier history, Indigenous identity, warfare, or colonial stereotypes, so context and cultural accuracy matter. Its dual function as implement and weapon makes it a potent image of survival and conflict. Responsible literary use should distinguish the real tool's complexity from sensationalised portrayals inherited from popular culture.
Example
Example in poetry:
The hunter used the tomahawk to cut branches for a shelter; A tomahawk may appear in poetry as both a practical tool and a weapon; Historical poems should avoid reducing it to a simplistic symbol of violence; In Indigenous contexts, its meaning may include survival, exchange, ceremony, craftsmanship, and resistance.
Additional Notes
The tomahawk has served as a practical axe, hunting tool, traded object, ceremonial item, and weapon in different Indigenous North American cultures and historical periods. Poetry students should avoid treating it as a simplistic emblem of violence or using it to reinforce colonial stereotypes. Its meaning depends on cultural and historical context. Related terms include axe, hatchet, trade axe, Indigenous craftsmanship, hunting, survival, ceremony, exchange, resistance, warfare, frontier literature, colonisation, identity, and responsible historical representation.
Also Known As
trade axe belt axe
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