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



Poet Affinities

Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Mina Loy by life & context

Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
8 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: social
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
100 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: greenwich village, women
Helen Hoyt
22 January 1887–2 August 1972 (~85)
2 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: social, women
Lola Ridge
12 December 1873–19 May 1941 (~68)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: greenwich village, social
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: social
Louise Chandler Moulton
10 April 1835–10 August 1908 (~73)
2 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: london, love
Violet Fane
24 February 1843–13 October 1905 (~62)
4 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: social
Amy Levy
10 November 1861–10 September 1889 (~28)
3 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: london, social
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
14 August 1802–15 October 1838 (~36)
3 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: london, social
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
7 poems analysed
72% affinity
Mathilde Blind
21 March 1841–26 November 1896 (~55)
6 poems analysed
71% affinity
Shared: social
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
8 poems analysed
71% affinity
Shared: london, social
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