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.

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 16 March 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 · 1 death anniversary · 2 world events on 16 March

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World events on this day

  • 16 March 1968

    My Lai Massacre

    In 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre, an atrocity exposed years later. The event sparked outrage and investigations. It became a symbol of war's moral complexities and influenced anti-war sentiment.

    Event 1968

  • 16 March 1815

    William I Proclaimed King of the United Netherlands

    On March 16, 1815, William I was proclaimed King of the United Netherlands, a new state created by the Congress of Vienna that united the former Dutch Republic with the Austrian Netherlands (roughly modern-day Belgium). The proclamation took place in Brussels, the capital of the southern provinces, and marked the formal establishment of a unified kingdom under the House of Orange-Nassau. William's reign would be characterized by efforts to centralize power and promote economic development, but the union proved fragile, leading to the Belgian Revolution of 1830.

    Event 1815
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