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.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this 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



1323

The Treaty of Paris (1323)

What happened

The Treaty of Paris of 1323 was a peace agreement between the French and English crowns, temporarily resolving disputes in Gascony. It was one of several attempts to settle the ongoing tensions that would later erupt into the Hundred Years' War. The treaty involved territorial exchanges and the payment of homage.

Literary impact

The Treaty of Paris (1323) was noted in the chronicle poetry of the time and contributed to a tradition of political verse that commented on the shifting fortunes of war and diplomacy. It was often used as a symbol of the futility of treaties that failed to secure lasting peace. The treaty's themes of territorial exchange and royal honor were later explored in chivalric and epic poetry.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1323

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