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 3 January 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 3 January

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Death anniversaries

World events on this day

  • 3 January 1896

    The Kruger Telegram

    Kaiser Wilhelm II sent a telegram to President Paul Kruger in Pretoria congratulating him for defeating the Jameson Raid without foreign assistance. British readers interpreted the message as German interference in southern Africa and an implicit challenge to British power. The diplomatic blunder sharply worsened Anglo-German relations.

    Event 1896

  • 3 January 2009

    Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Creation

    Satoshi Nakamoto, pseudonymous creator(s), launched Bitcoin cryptocurrency mining the genesis block in cyberspace with servers distributed globally. Using blockchain technology, Bitcoin enabled peer-to-peer transactions without central authority, creating decentralized digital currency resistant to censorship and inflation. Though initially obscure, Bitcoin attracted attention from technologists, libertarians, and speculators, eventually reaching mainstream awareness and prompting central banks and governments to consider digital currency implications for monetary policy and financial systems.

    Event 2009
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