A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 31 December 2026

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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

Until midnight on 31 December 2026, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard


Compare Poet Landscapes

Overlay two poets' averaged emotional profiles (10+ profiled musicalized poems each). See where their catalogue moods converge and diverge — a reading guide, not a verdict on the authors.

Click a dominant tone or range row below to explore and listen to top poems from both poets.

Hartley Coleridge

10 profiled poem(s)

Across 10 profiled poems currently on V2Melody, this poet's musicalized work tends toward wonder, longing, and spirituality. This is an interpretive catalogue view drawn from averaged poem mood profiles — not a portrait of the author.

Emotional range: very wide range in wonder (30–85); very wide range in longing (30–80).

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Dominant tones (average)
Emotional range — Hartley Coleridge

A.E.Housman

19 profiled poem(s)

Across 19 profiled poems currently on V2Melody, this poet's musicalized work tends toward sorrow, longing, and despair. This is an interpretive catalogue view drawn from averaged poem mood profiles — not a portrait of the author.

Emotional range: very wide range in sorrow (20–85); very wide range in longing (20–80).

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Dominant tones (average)
Emotional range — A.E.Housman

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