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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

Lizette Woodworth Reese Lizette Woodworth Reese

Poet B

Sara Teasdale Sara Teasdale
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.

Kindred spirits
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 78% Poems 89% Blended 83%
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Lizette Woodworth Reese

Lizette Woodworth Reese

9 January 1856 – 17 December 1935 (~79)
3 live poems · English

Lizette Woodworth Reese was born on 9 January 1856 in the Greenspring Valley area of Baltimore County, Maryland, and died in Baltimore on 17 December 1935. Her long life joined two very different literary ages. She was formed by the cadences, moral seriousness, and cultivated sentiment of nineteenth-century verse, yet some of her finest poems possess the compression, pictorial clarity, and emotional reserve that late…

“Thrice blessed are they whose early years are spent in some countryside. The flowering and withering of the seasons, and every exquisite sound and sight make them affluent with a treasure which neither change nor chance can steal away.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Devotional Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale

8 August 1884 – 29 January 1933 (~49)
25 live poems · English

Sara Teasdale was born on 8 August 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, and died there on 29 January 1933. During her lifetime she became one of the best-known American lyric poets of the early twentieth century, admired for verse that appeared effortless: brief, melodious, emotionally direct, and exquisitely shaped. Her poems spoke of love, solitude, desire, beauty, loss, the changing seasons, and death. Their clarity made…

“The poet should try to give his poem the quiet swiftness of flame, so that the reader will feel and not think while he is reading.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Confessional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness

In time

Lizette Woodworth Reese
Sara Teasdale
1856 1935
They overlapped for 50 years (1884–1933). When Sara Teasdale was born, Lizette Woodworth Reese was about 28. Lizette Woodworth Reese was about 77 when Sara Teasdale died.

On the map

About 1,167 km separate Greenspring, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA from St. Louis, Missouri, 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

women

Lizette Woodworth Reese: baltimore, greenspring valley, david reese, mary elizabeth woodworth reese, a branch of may, tears, a handful of lavender, a quiet road. Sara Teasdale: st. louis, sonnets to duse, helen of troy, rivers to the sea, love songs, vachel lindsay, ernst filsinger, mary institute.

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.

Tears
Lizette Woodworth Reese
81% loss
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Tides
Sara Teasdale
Tears
Lizette Woodworth Reese
81%
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Twilight
Sara Teasdale
Tears
Lizette Woodworth Reese
81% tears
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The Rose
Sara Teasdale
Tears
Lizette Woodworth Reese
80%
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The River
Sara Teasdale
Tears
Lizette Woodworth Reese
80% life
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There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale
Tears
Lizette Woodworth Reese
80%
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Pity
Sara Teasdale

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

Emotional landscapes

Lizette Woodworth Reese: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder. Sara Teasdale: Longing, Sorrow, Tenderness.

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