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



2024

The Historic Solar Storm Auroras

What happened

An extreme G5 geomagnetic storm, the most powerful to strike Earth since 2003, generated magnificent, multi-colored auroras that were visible at exceptionally low latitudes worldwide. Residents observed vivid green and purple skies in locations like Seville, Spain, and Miami, Florida, where auroras are historically non-existent. The widespread use of modern smartphones allowed millions of citizens to instantly capture and share high-quality photographic evidence of the sky's behavior on social media platforms.

Literary impact

This historic global display triggered an unprecedented explosion of instantaneous, crowd-sourced digital poetry and visual literature. It provided 21st-century poets with an immediate, real-time creative canvas to explore how modern digital connectivity and ancient cosmic phenomena gracefully converge in the urban landscape.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 2024

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