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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.

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



Emily Brontë — a remark

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“At length my body and my spirit were weary of wandering; my bark was tossed by storms, I longed to come into port.”

Using the journey at sea as an image of exhaustion and the desire for peace · School letter exercise, From One Brother to Another, August 1842, translated from French

About Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

30 July 1818–19 December 1848

Emily Jane Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 at Thornton, near Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and died on 19 December 1848 at Haworth, Yorkshire. She lived only thirty years, published one novel and a small body of verse during her lifetime, travelled little, and left behind few direct explanations of…

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