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 28 May in poetry and history

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

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1 birthday · 1 death anniversary · 4 world events on 28 May

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World events on this day

  • 28 May 1830

    Indian Removal Act of 1830

    On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, authorizing the forced relocation of Native American tribes from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River. The act led to the removal of approximately 60,000 members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations. The most infamous removal was the Cherokee Trail of Tears in 1838, during which some 4,000 Cherokee died on the grueling march to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).

    Event 1830

  • 28 May 1849

    Burial at St. Mary's Church

    Anne Brontë passed away on May 28, 1849, and was buried in the family plot at St. Mary's Church in Haworth, Yorkshire. Her burial site became a place of pilgrimage for admirers of her work. The location is significant as it symbolizes her enduring legacy and connection to her family.

    Event 1849

  • 28 May 1644

    Storming of Bolton

    Prince Rupert's Royalist army stormed the Parliamentarian and strongly Puritan town of Bolton in Lancashire on 28 May 1644. Large numbers of defenders and civilians were killed during and after the assault, though estimates vary greatly. The event became known in Parliamentarian memory as the Bolton Massacre.

    Event 1644

  • 28 May 1785

    First Balloon Flight in Denmark

    On May 28, 1785, the first balloon flight in Denmark took place in Copenhagen, with French aeronaut Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascending before Danish royalty and large crowds. This demonstration introduced Danish audiences to balloon technology and sparked scientific interest that would contribute to Scandinavian engagement with aeronautical research and experimentation in subsequent decades.

    Event 1785
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