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


On 13 December in poetry and history

Poets born or who died on this date, plus historical events that happened on this day across history.

610 poets with calendar dates · 6,535 events with calendar dates in the catalogue

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1 birthday · 2 death anniversaries · 3 world events on 13 December

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World events on this day

  • 13 December 1862

    Battle of Fredericksburg

    On December 13, 1862, Union General Ambrose Burnside ordered a series of futile assaults against Confederate positions on Marye's Heights above Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Confederate victory, with over 12,000 Union casualties to fewer than 5,000 Confederate, was one of the most lopsided defeats of the war. The battle shattered Union morale and highlighted the tactical incompetence of Union leadership.

    Event 1862

  • 13 December 1643

    Battle of Alton

    Sir William Waller launched a surprise attack on the Royalist winter garrison at Alton in Hampshire on 13 December 1643. Fighting centred upon the town and St Lawrence's Church, where Royalist commander Richard Bolle was killed. Parliamentarian forces captured numerous soldiers and officers.

    Event 1643

  • 13 December 1910

    The Great Earthquake of 1910 in Rukwa

    On December 13, 1910 CE, a powerful earthquake, estimated at magnitude 7.4, struck the Rukwa region of Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania). This event is one of the largest earthquakes recorded in East Africa and is documented in colonial records. The earthquake had a significant impact on the local landscape and population.

    Event 1910
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