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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard



Poem fractal

Side by side

Random

0.027 apart. A smaller distance means the lines are built more alike.

This number is read from the build of the lines. The bright edge is that number, carried outward until the pattern repeats.

Coming of Age

by Edward James Mortimer Collins

−0.1987 − 0.5410i

Drawing the boundary…

Ac Ni Bydd Nos Yno

by Watcyn Wyn

−0.2250 − 0.5443i

Drawing the boundary…

The poems

Each poem scrolls on its own, so the two texts stay beside each other.

Coming of Age

by Edward James Mortimer Collins

The poet may tread earth sadly,
Yet is he Dreamland's king,
And the fays at his bidding gladly
Visions of beauty bring;
But his joys will be rarer, finer,
Away from this earthly stage,
When he, who is now a minor,
Comes of age.

For him soft leaflets cluster
Of violet, ivy, and vine;
For him leaps livelier lustre
From purple depth of wine:
Pauses the song of the Sirens,
Closes the Sybil's page,
Till he, whom earth environs,
Comes of age.

He seems to the moiling million
A very pestilent knave;
Yet the sky is his pavilion,
And the maiden moon his slave;
And the sea, with its myriad laughter,
And maddening freaks of rage,
Owns him who, a king hereafter,
Comes of age.

The wailing winds and the thunder,
And the roar of a war that whirls,
Breaking great realms asunder,
And the merry songs of girls,
All in one music mingle,
All the great joys presage,
Of the poet who, royal and single,
Comes of age.

Roll on, O tardy cycle,
Whose death is the poet's birth!
Blow soon, great trump of Michael,
Shatter the crust of earth!
Let the slow spheres turn faster;
Hasten the heritage
Of him who, as life's true master,
Comes of age!

Ac Ni Bydd Nos Yno

by Watcyn Wyn

Tu hwnt i’r byd,
Tu draw i’r cread mawr i gyd,
Rhy bell i sôn am gylchdre;
Yn uwch na’r cyfundraethau oll,
Pob cysawd wedi mynd ar goll,
A’u cysgod wedi blino!
Llonyddwch y cyfandir mawr,
Lle rhoed gorseddfaingc Duw i lawr—
“Ac ni fydd nos yno.”

Gwlad fythol rydd,
O’r cylch lle dirwyn nos a dydd,
Tywyllu a goleuo.
Dim “bore a hwyr” yn iaith y ne’,
Na haul na lloer yn tremio’r lle;
Dysgleirdeb sy’n eu cuddio.
Perffeithrwydd yn goleuo sydd,
Heb wyro gradd o “ganol dydd”—
“Ac ni fydd nos yno.”

Yr oll fel Duw;
Yr afon bur o ddyfroedd byw,
Fel grisial byth yn llifo;—
A phren y bywyd uwch y dôn,
Heb daflu ei gysgod ar ei fron,
Am na ddaw hwyrddydd heibio.
Y cangau gwyrdd yn tystio sydd,
Dan ffrwythau haf a “blodau dydd”—
“Ac ni fydd nos yno.”

Lliw du y nos
Nid oes ar ddim trwy’r Wynfa dlos;
Lliw gwyn yw lliw’r wlad honno.
Gwyn yw pob sant yn y gwyn fyd,
A gwynion yw eu gynnau i gyd—
Mewn gwyn mae’r oll yn gwisgo.
Dwed edyn gwynion engyl nen,
A’r gwyn o gylch yr orsedd wen—
“Ac ni fydd nos yno.”

Pan fachlud gwawr
Holl oleuadau’r cread mawr—
Pan dywyllo’r mynydd honno;
Pan gaiff y gwyll lywodraeth rydd,
Pan lynco’r nos yr olaf ddydd,
A’r hwyr ddiwedda’n huno—
Ni phyla hanner dydd y wlad,
Lle’r ysgrifenodd bys ein Tad—
“Ac ni fydd nos yno.”

Mae Duw yn dân;
A philyga y goleuni glân
I’w droi’n wisg amdano.
Eistedda ar ei orsedd fawr,
A holl belydrau’r brydferth wawr
O’i amgylch yn dysgleirio!
A’r dydd a ddwed, tra’r orsedd wen
A Brenin y goleuni’n ben—
“Ac ni fydd nos yno!”

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