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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.

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

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway

Poet B

Emanuel Morgan Emanuel Morgan
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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 52% Blended 52%
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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961 (~62)
8 live poems · English

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb west of Chicago, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He became one of the most recognizable writers of the twentieth century: novelist, short-story master, journalist, war correspondent, celebrity, sportsman, and, in his earliest publications, a poet. His name came to signify a style as much as a body of work. Hemingway…

“And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Modernist Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Sorrow, Despair
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

In time

Ernest Hemingway
Emanuel Morgan
1899 1961
They overlapped for 2 years (1916–1917). When Emanuel Morgan was born, Ernest Hemingway was about 17. Ernest Hemingway was about 18 when Emanuel Morgan died.

On the map

About 1,157 km separate Oak Park, Illinois, USA from New York City, New York, USA. Shared ground: United States.

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

From the biographies

Ernest Hemingway: oak park, ketchum, agnes von kurowsky, hadley richardson, pauline pfeiffer, lost generation, the sun also rises, a farewell to arms. 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.

Montparnasse
Ernest Hemingway
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Spectres
Emanuel Morgan
Chapter Heading
Ernest Hemingway
68%
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Spectres
Emanuel Morgan
All armies are the same
Ernest Hemingway
65%
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Spectres
Emanuel Morgan
The Poem Is by Maera
Ernest Hemingway
64% world
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Spectres
Emanuel Morgan
Advice to a Son
Ernest Hemingway
63% world
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Spectres
Emanuel Morgan
Oily Weather
Ernest Hemingway
62% world
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Spectres
Emanuel Morgan

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

Emotional landscapes

Ernest Hemingway: Irony, Sorrow, Despair. Emanuel Morgan: Wonder, Spirituality, Longing.

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