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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


1198

Event dated 1 November 1198

Religion Culture

Foundation of Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome

What happened

The Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia, founded by Pope Innocent III in 1198, is recognized as one of Europe's earliest purpose-built charitable hospitals. It was established to provide systematic care for the sick and abandoned, reflecting the Church's commitment to social welfare. The hospital's foundation marked a significant development in the history of healthcare, influencing the establishment of similar institutions across Europe and shaping the future of medical care.

Literary impact

The foundation of Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome in 1198 marked a shift in medieval thought, providing poets with new moral themes related to suffering, charity, and the human condition. This institutional care inspired devotional and allegorical poetry, as seen in the works of poets like Dante and Petrarch, who grappled with the interplay of the body and soul.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1198

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