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


2023

Event dated 20 April 2023

Technology Invention

Starship Integrated Flight Test 1

What happened

In 2023, SpaceX conducted the first integrated flight test of the Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster, a significant milestone in space exploration technology. This test aimed to demonstrate the capabilities of the fully reusable spacecraft designed for missions to Mars and beyond. The successful execution of this test is a crucial step toward achieving ambitious goals in space travel and expanding human presence beyond Earth.

Literary impact

The successful Starship Integrated Flight Test 1 in 2023 pushed the boundaries of rocket technology, inspiring poets to envision a future where humanity expands beyond Earth. This technological leap has sparked a new genre of speculative poetry that imagines life on other planets.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 2023

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