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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.

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


1901

Event dated 19 October 1901

Invention

Santos-Dumont's Circular Flight Around Eiffel Tower

What happened

On October 19, 1901, Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont successfully flew his airship Number 6 around the Eiffel Tower and back within 30 minutes, winning the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize and achieving international fame. This precise navigation demonstration proved the practical controllability of airships and made Santos-Dumont a celebrity in Paris and beyond.

Literary impact

Santos-Dumont's elegant achievement inspired Belle Époque poetry celebrating precision, style, and international cosmopolitanism. The Brazilian aviator became a literary figure in Parisian circles, inspiring verses that connected South American achievement with European modernity, while his graceful airship flights influenced literary depictions of urban space viewed from above and the aesthetics of controlled flight.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1901

270 poets

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