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 21 August 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 · 2 world events on 21 August

Birthdays

Death anniversaries

World events on this day

  • 21 August 1920

    Birth of Son Christopher Robin Milne

    A. A. Milne's only child, Christopher Robin Milne, was born on August 21, 1920, in London. The boy's arrival transformed Milne's domestic world and would prove the single most consequential event for his literary legacy. Christopher Robin's nursery, toys, and imaginative play became the direct inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh books and the two children's poetry collections.

    Event 1920

  • 21 August 2017

    The Great American Eclipse

    A total solar eclipse path carved a complete diagonal trajectory directly across the continental United States from Oregon to South Carolina, observed by tens of millions of citizens in person and via digital livestreams, with major gatherings in Nashville, Tennessee. Dubbed 'The Great American Eclipse', it was the first total eclipse visible across the entire contiguous US since 1918, sparking an unprecedented boom in domestic astro-tourism and massive public science engagement campaigns.

    Event 2017
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