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


1650

Event dated January 1650

Culture

Falling Band Collars Replace Rigid Ruffs

Poets involved

What happened

By 1650, falling band collars began to replace rigid ruffs in European fashion, reflecting a shift towards more comfortable and practical clothing styles. This change in attire indicated broader social trends towards informality and individual expression in fashion. The evolution of collar styles also mirrored changes in societal norms and attitudes, influencing the way people presented themselves in public and private life.

Literary impact

The transition from rigid ruffs to falling band collars in 1650 mirrored cultural shifts toward naturalism in Restoration literature. Poets like John Dryden and Andrew Marvell reflected these changes in their works, emphasizing emotional expression and the subtleties of human experience.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1650

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