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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


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

Alfred Kreymborg Alfred Kreymborg

Poet B

William Vaughn Moody William Vaughn Moody
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.

Strongly related
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 74% Blended 74%
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Alfred Kreymborg

Alfred Kreymborg

10 December 1883 – 14 August 1966 (~83)
2 live poems · English

In the early decades of the twentieth century, when American poetry was struggling to break free from the strictures of Victorian convention, a slight, chess-obsessed son of German immigrants emerged as one of the most influential figures in literary modernism. Alfred Kreymborg, born on December 10, 1883, in New York City, would become far more than a poet. He was a literary impresario, a talent scout with an uncanny…

“We have to learn to live with one another, or we shall cease to live at all.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality
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William Vaughn Moody

William Vaughn Moody

8 July 1869 – 17 October 1910 (~41)
1 live poem · English

In the flickering gaslight of late nineteenth-century America, as the nation struggled to reconcile its frontier spirit with emerging urban sophistication, William Vaughn Moody emerged as a literary voice uniquely suited to capture this profound cultural tension. Born on July 8, 1869, in Spencer, Indiana, and dying far too young on October 17, 1910, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Moody's forty-one years encompassed a…

“The theatre is my grand resource.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

Alfred Kreymborg
William Vaughn Moody
1869 1966
They overlapped for 28 years (1883–1910). When Alfred Kreymborg was born, William Vaughn Moody was about 14. Alfred Kreymborg was about 27 when William Vaughn Moody died.
Alfred Kreymborg in history William Vaughn Moody in history Years they were given

On the map

About 1,155 km separate New York City, New York, USA from Spencer, Indiana, USA. Shared ground: United States.

Alfred Kreymborg

William Vaughn Moody

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.

No overlapping top terms in the poem critiques — any kinship may sit in mood rather than vocabulary.

Alfred Kreymborg only

world play prodigy dignity life idealism stream dream tree bird self

William Vaughn Moody only

divine heart despair hills

From the biographies

Alfred Kreymborg: new york city, german immigrants, greenwich village, alfred stieglitz, the glebe, des imagistes, imagism, others: a magazine of the new verse. William Vaughn Moody: spencer, indiana, colorado springs, francis burdette moody, henrietta stoy moody, harvard university, robert morss lovett, the complete poetical works of john milton, poems.

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.

Prodigy
Alfred Kreymborg
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I stood within the heart of God
William Vaughn Moody
Idealists
Alfred Kreymborg
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I stood within the heart of God
William Vaughn Moody

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1883 Emil Christian Hansen Isolates a Pure Yeast Culture at Carlsberg
1883 Friedrich Nietzsche Publishes 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'
1883 Publication of 'Treasure Island'
1884 Oxford English Dictionary Begins Publication
1884 Publication of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'
1885 Pasteur Successfully Tests the Rabies Vaccine
1885 Premiere of 'The Mikado'
1886 Discovery of Gold on the Witwatersrand Sparks Johannesburg Boom

Alfred Kreymborg

1900 Kreymborg's Musical Education
1914 Publication of 'The Little Review'
1915 Founding of 'Others' Magazine
1917 Publication of 'The New Poetry'
1917 Publication of 'The New Poetry' Anthology
1920 Kreymborg's Friendship with William Carlos Williams
1920 Publication of 'The New York Times' Poetry Section
1945 Kreymborg's Involvement with the New American Poetry

William Vaughn Moody

1884 Moody's Mother Passes Away
1885 Graduation as Valedictorian
1886 Moody's Father Passes Away
1889 Attends Harvard University
1901 First Major Publication: 'The Masque of Poets'
1902 Publication of 'The Fire Bringer'
1904 Publication of 'The Great God Success'
1910 Final Publication: 'The Last Poems'

Emotional landscapes

Alfred Kreymborg: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality. William Vaughn Moody: Spirituality, Wonder, Peace.

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