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


1990

Event dated 1990–1991

Technology Invention

First web browser and HTML

What happened

In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, developed the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, along with the HTML markup language and the HTTP protocol. Together these inventions created the infrastructure of the modern internet. Within a decade, the web had become the primary medium for publishing and accessing poetry, transforming the reach and economics of literary culture.

Literary impact

The advent of the first web browser and HTML in 1990 enabled the creation of online poetry archives and journals, transforming the way poets share their work and connect with audiences in the digital age. This shift has led to new forms of poetic expression and collaboration, fostering a global literary community.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1990

3 poets

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