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


1230

Event dated 1230–1300

Culture

Invention of the Sonnet Form Popularized in Italy

What happened

In the early 1230s, the Sicilian School of poets, under the patronage of Frederick II, played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of the sonnet form. This poetic structure, characterized by its specific rhyme scheme and thematic depth, allowed for greater expression of personal emotion and artistic creativity. The sonnet's emergence in Italy would later influence poets across Europe, becoming a cornerstone of Renaissance literature and shaping the future of poetic expression.

Literary impact

The popularization of the sonnet form in Italy around 1230 provided a structured poetic form that spread across Europe, becoming central to the works of Petrarch and Shakespeare. This form allowed poets to explore themes of love and beauty with a refined elegance that has influenced countless generations.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1230

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