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


2021

Event dated 9 December 2021

Technology

IXPE X-ray Polarimetry

What happened

In 2021, NASA launched the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission to measure X-ray polarization from cosmic sources like black holes and neutron stars. This provided new insights into high-energy astrophysics. The satellite enhanced understanding of extreme universe phenomena and magnetic fields in space.

Literary impact

The IXPE X-ray polarimetry mission launched in 2021 added new dimensions to our understanding of cosmic structures, inspiring poets to explore themes of magnetism and the unseen forces of the universe. This scientific advancement found its way into contemporary poetry, enriching metaphors of mystery and discovery.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 2021

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