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 26 July 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 · 5 world events on 26 July

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World events on this day

  • 26 July 1910

    Jones is jailed after reaching Harvard Square

    After arriving in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jones was arrested as a vagrant instead of being admitted to Harvard. He was held in East Cambridge Jail. On 26 July 1910, while in Cell No. 40, he wrote about the experience in the poem Harvard Square.

    Event 1910

  • 26 July 1643

    Storming of Bristol

    Prince Rupert's Royalist army stormed the major port of Bristol on 26 July 1643. Parliamentarian governor Nathaniel Fiennes surrendered after the outer defences were breached. Possession of the city gave the king an important harbour, commercial centre and route to Wales and Ireland.

    Event 1643

  • 26 July 1945

    The Mokusatsu Translation Controversy

    After the Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration, Japanese prime minister Kantarō Suzuki used the word mokusatsu when discussing it in Tokyo. Foreign reports commonly rendered the term as rejecting or ignoring the declaration, although it can carry more ambiguous meanings. Historians dispute how much this translation affected subsequent decisions.

    Event 1945

  • 26 July 1847

    Establishment of the Republic of Liberia

    In 1847, the Republic of Liberia was established by the American Colonization Society as a settlement for freed African Americans. This initiative aimed to provide a solution to the issue of slavery in the United States by relocating freed individuals to Africa. Liberia's founding was significant as it represented a complex intersection of race, identity, and geopolitics, influencing the social dynamics of both the United States and West Africa. The republic would later become a symbol of African self-governance and independence.

    Event 1847

  • 26 July 1914

    Howth Gun-Running

    On July 26, 1914, the Irish Volunteers, with the help of Erskine Childers, landed a shipment of 1,500 rifles and 45,000 rounds of ammunition at Howth, County Dublin. The weapons, which were smuggled from Germany, were intended to arm the Volunteers in preparation for a fight for Irish independence. The Howth gun-running was a major propaganda victory for the Volunteers and demonstrated the determination of Irish nationalists to resist British rule.

    Event 1914
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