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.

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


Compare Poets

Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.

Poet A

Eva Gore-Booth Eva Gore-Booth

Poet B

Emanuel Morgan Emanuel Morgan
Compare two related contemporaries

A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.

Somewhat related
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 46% Blended 46%
Swap sides Another related pair
Eva Gore-Booth

Eva Gore-Booth

22 May 1870 – 30 June 1926 (~56)
1 live poem · English

Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth was born on 22 May 1870 at Lissadell House, the great neo-classical estate overlooking Sligo Bay in north-west Ireland, and died in London on 30 June 1926. She was a poet, dramatist, essayist, spiritual seeker, trade-union ally, campaigner for women’s suffrage, and one half of one of the most enduring partnerships in the history of British and Irish reform. Her name was long overshadowed b…

“One sometimes thinks that the whole art of party politics is to dress shop windows with beautiful motives and noble aims so as to take in the public and keep them quiet while they are carrying out wholesale robberies and murders in the safe seclusion of Government Offices and Departments.”

Neighbourhood: Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace
Listen Timeline Affinities
Emanuel Morgan

Emanuel Morgan

1916 – 1917 (~1)
1 live poem · English

Emanuel Morgan occupies one of the most unusual positions in American literary history: he was a poet who never existed in the ordinary biographical sense, yet whose poems, reputation, controversies, and afterlife have proved remarkably real. The dates commonly attached to him, 1916–1917, refer not to the span of a human life but to the brief public career of a deliberately invented authorial persona. “Emanuel Morgan…

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Imagist Poets, Light Verse Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Longing
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

Eva Gore-Booth
Emanuel Morgan
1870 1926
They overlapped for 2 years (1916–1917). When Emanuel Morgan was born, Eva Gore-Booth was about 46. Eva Gore-Booth was about 47 when Emanuel Morgan died.
Eva Gore-Booth in history Emanuel Morgan in history Years they were given

On the map

About 4,944 km separate Lissadell House, County Sligo, Ireland from New York City, New York, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

Eva Gore-Booth

Emanuel Morgan

Open both on the History Atlas

Themes they return to

Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.

Shared

world light

Eva Gore-Booth only

walls social nature beauty life land

Emanuel Morgan only

spectres myth eurydice presence divine loss

From the biographies

Eva Gore-Booth: lissadell house, sligo bay, esther roper, women's suffrage, the sorrowful princess, the one and the many, irish literary revival, anglo-irish protestant. Emanuel Morgan: spectrism, witter bynner, arthur davison ficke, santa fe, harvard university, tao te ching, mock avant-garde, poetry society of america.

Poems that secretly rhyme

The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.

Walls
Eva Gore-Booth
67% world, light
Compare
Spectres
Emanuel Morgan

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1916 Death in Battle
1916 Discovery of Heparin
1916 Easter Rising Proclaims Irish Republic in Dublin (1916)
1916 Execution and Legacy
1916 Final Years and Legacy
1916 Signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic
1916 The Agonizing Trench Warfare at the Battle of the Somme
1916 The Agonizing Trench Warfare at the Battle of Verdun

Eva Gore-Booth

1896 Meeting Esther Roper in Italy
1897 Relocation to Manchester
1898 First Poetry Collection Published
1904 Publication of 'The One and the Many'
1915 Publication of 'The Perilous Light'
1927 Death of Sister Constance Markievicz

Emanuel Morgan

Emotional landscapes

Eva Gore-Booth: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace. Emanuel Morgan: Wonder, Spirituality, Longing.

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