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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.

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.

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



David Gray — a remark

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“I am in London and dare not look into the middle of next week. What brought me here? God knows, for I don’t. Alone in such a place is a horrible thing.”

Expressing isolation and uncertainty during his brief time in the capital · Letter to Sydney Dobell, 1860

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David Gray

29 January 1838–3 December 1861

In the annals of Victorian poetry, few figures burn as brightly yet as briefly as David Gray. Born in the industrial heartland of Scotland, Gray’s life spanned a mere twenty-two years—yet within that compressed span, he produced a body of work that, though modest in volume, resonated with a lyrical intensity rare even…

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