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


1796

Event dated 14 May 1796

Invention Science

Edward Jenner Discovers the Smallpox Vaccine

Poets involved

What happened

In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner successfully developed the smallpox vaccine using cowpox material, marking the dawn of modern scientific vaccination. This groundbreaking discovery laid the foundation for immunology and transformed public health by significantly reducing smallpox mortality rates. Jenner's work not only saved countless lives but also initiated a global vaccination movement that would shape future medical practices.

Literary impact

Edward Jenner's discovery of the smallpox vaccine in 1796 sparked a wave of poetic responses, ranging from celebratory panegyrics to satirical critiques of medical practices. This cultural tension between Enlightenment science and Romantic ideals of nature found expression in the works of poets like William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1796

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