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


1449

Event dated 1449–1450

War Geopolitics

French Reconquest of Normandy Begins

What happened

In 1449, Charles VII of France launched a major offensive to reclaim Normandy from English control, capturing key towns and exploiting English disarray. The campaign culminated in the loss of English holdings, effectively ending the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War. It demonstrated improved French military organization and artillery use.

Literary impact

The reconquest inspired triumphant French poetry and chronicles celebrating national recovery, while English literature reflected on imperial decline. Poets like those in the Chaucerian tradition used these shifts to explore fortune's wheel and national identity. The events provided context for later literary reflections on war's end and the dawn of new cultural eras.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1449

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