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.

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


1800

Event dated 1750–1850

Economy Culture

Rise of Industrial Sugar Preservation and Jams

Poets involved

What happened

The rise of industrial sugar preservation and jams in the early 1800s revolutionized food preservation methods in Europe and America. The widespread availability of sugar facilitated the production of fruit preserves and jams, transforming culinary practices and dietary habits. This industrialization of food preservation not only enhanced food security but also contributed to the development of a consumer culture centered around processed foods.

Literary impact

The rise of industrial sugar preservation and jams in 1800 symbolized domestic comfort and seasonal bounty in Victorian poetry. Poets like Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning evoked themes of sweetness, memory, and the preservation of nature's gifts, reflecting societal changes in consumption and nostalgia.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1800

71 poets

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