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


1783

Event dated 5 February 1783

Other Culture

The Messina Earthquake

Poet involved

What happened

In 1783, the Messina Earthquake struck the city of Messina in Sicily, causing widespread devastation and killing tens of thousands of people. The earthquake also triggered a massive tsunami that impacted the surrounding areas, compounding the disaster's effects. This event underscored the vulnerability of coastal cities to natural disasters and prompted discussions about urban planning and disaster preparedness.

Literary impact

The Messina earthquake of 1783 captivated European thinkers, drawing poets like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to write about the violent dual nature of Mediterranean beauty and structural decay. Goethe's reflections on the disaster highlighted the fragility of human creations against nature's might.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1783

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