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


1667

Event dated 27 April 1667

Culture

First Publication of Paradise Lost

Poet involved

What happened

John Milton's Paradise Lost was first published in London in 1667, seven years after the Restoration. The blind former Commonwealth official retold the biblical rebellion in heaven, the temptation of Adam and Eve and humanity's expulsion from Eden. A revised twelve-book edition followed in 1674.

Literary impact

The epic transformed Milton's experience of revolution, defeat and restored monarchy into a cosmic meditation on obedience, liberty and fallen ambition. Its Satan, regicide-era vocabulary and concern with inward freedom remain inseparable from the Civil War generation.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1667

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