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 Trumbull Stickney by life & context

Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
2 poems analysed
80% affinity
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
23 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: knowledge, world
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
20 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: memory, world
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
2 poems analysed
76% affinity
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
5 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: world
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
24 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: memory
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
18 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: memory
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
22 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: memory
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
4 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: memory
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
12 poems analysed
73% affinity
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
26 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: world
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
69 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: memory
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