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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


1185

Event dated 25 April 1185

War Geopolitics Culture

Heian Period Transition to Kamakura

What happened

The Genpei War (1180-1185) ended with Minamoto no Yoritomo's victory, establishing the Kamakura shogunate and ending the Heian period's aristocratic dominance. This political transformation shifted cultural patronage from court nobles to warrior elites, gradually changing literary themes, audiences, and aesthetic values in Japanese literature.

Literary impact

The transition from Heian to Kamakura periods marked a shift from aristocratic refinement to warrior pragmatism in Japanese literature, with war tales replacing court diaries as dominant genres. Poets adapted to new patronage systems, composing verses for samurai clients who valued different aesthetic qualities than court nobles. The political upheaval generated literature exploring impermanence and karmic justice, themes that would characterize medieval Japanese literary sensibility.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1185

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