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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


1190

Event dated 10 June 1190

War Geopolitics

Death of Frederick Barbarossa

What happened

Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowned on June 10, 1190, in the Saleph River (now Göksu River) in Anatolia while leading German forces on the Third Crusade. His death caused the disintegration of the German contingent and significantly weakened the crusade, contributing to its ultimate failure to recapture Jerusalem despite Richard I's military successes.

Literary impact

Barbarossa's mysterious death spawned legendary accounts in German literature, most notably his transformation into a sleeping emperor who would awaken to restore Germany's glory in times of need. This legend influenced later nationalist poetry and political mythology, appearing in works from medieval chronicles to 19th-century Romantic literature. The emperor's crusading reputation also featured in Minnesang poetry, where he was celebrated as an ideal Christian ruler and warrior.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1190

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