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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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

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.

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

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard



Georgia Douglas Johnson — a remark

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“If I might ask of some fairy godmother special favors, one would sure be for a clearing space, elbow room in which to think and write and live beyond the reach of the Wolf's fingers.”

Expressing the need for protected space in which creativity can survive · Autobiographical statement published in Opportunity, July 1927

About Georgia Douglas Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson

10 September 1880–15 May 1966

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a luminous voice in American literature, a poet whose words captured the fluttering heart of womanhood, the weight of racial identity, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit during one of the most vibrant eras of Black artistic expression. Born on September 10, 1880, in Atlanta…

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