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 29 April 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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2 birthdays · 1 death anniversary · 3 world events on 29 April

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World events on this day

  • 29 April 1933

    Cavafy's Death and Legacy

    C. P. Cavafy passed away on 29 April 1933 in Alexandria, Egypt, on his 70th birthday. His death marked the end of a significant literary career that profoundly influenced Modern Greek poetry and the broader literary world.

    Event 1933

  • 29 April 1844

    Death of Second Cousin Sophia Holland

    Emily Dickinson's second cousin and close friend, Sophia Holland, died of typhus on April 29, 1844, in Amherst, Massachusetts, at age fifteen. The thirteen-year-old Emily was deeply traumatized by the loss and was sent to stay with relatives in Monson to recover.

    Event 1844

  • 29 April 1958

    Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas

    On April 29, 1958, the Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas was signed in Geneva, Switzerland. This treaty was one of the first international agreements to address the conservation of marine resources beyond national jurisdiction. It established principles for the sustainable use of fish stocks and encouraged states to cooperate in the management of shared resources. The convention was part of the first United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and laid the groundwork for later agreements on high seas fisheries.

    Event 1958
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