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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


1928

Event dated 16 December 1928

Culture

Elinor Wylie's Final Months and Literary Preparations

Poet involved

What happened

In late 1928, Elinor Wylie was in New York City preparing 'Angels and Earthly Creatures' for publication with William Rose Benét before her death. Despite health issues including high blood pressure, she remained active in literary circles. She passed away suddenly on December 16.

Literary impact

These final months in New York underscored Elinor Wylie's dedication to her craft amid declining health, ensuring the release of her powerful sonnet sequence. Her life's embrace of intensity informed the visionary and philosophic depth of late works, leaving a legacy of polished emotional truth that influenced later revivals of interest in her poetry. (142 characters)

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1928

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