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 Elizabeth Devereux by life & context

Helen Dudley
3 June 1886–1932 (~46)
1 poem analysed
80% affinity
Shared: social
Rose Milligan
1938–2024 (~86)
1 poem analysed
79% affinity
Shared: loss
Myra Viola Wilds
c. 1880–c. 1935 (~55)
2 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: life
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
4 poems analysed
78% affinity
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
79 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: memory, imaginative
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
3 poems analysed
77% affinity
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
185 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: life
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
100 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: woman
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
25 poems analysed
76% affinity
Lizette Woodworth Reese
9 January 1856–17 December 1935 (~79)
3 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: loss, social
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
23 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: social
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