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.

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


1661

Science Culture

Publication of 'The Sceptical Chymist' by Robert Boyle

Poets involved

What happened

In 1661, Robert Boyle published 'The Sceptical Chymist', a groundbreaking work that questioned the classical four-element theory of matter. Boyle's arguments laid the foundation for modern chemistry by advocating for a more empirical approach to scientific inquiry. His work emphasized the importance of experimentation and observation, moving away from philosophical speculation, and ultimately helped to establish chemistry as a distinct scientific discipline.

Literary impact

This work influenced poets by promoting a scientific view of the world, encouraging a shift in poetic themes towards nature and the material world. John Milton and Andrew Marvell, among others, began to intertwine scientific inquiry with poetic exploration, reflecting the changing worldview of their time.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1661

35 poets

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