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


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Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below.

pre-1500 0 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 12 1550s 1 / 93 1600s 0 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 1 / 165 1800s 2 / 699 1850s 3 / 966 1900s 3 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Ring out your bells
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Ring out your bells

by Sir Philip Sidney · English

Sir Philip Sidney portrait

30 November 1554 - 17 October 1586 (~32)

The Echoing Green
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The Echoing Green

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

The Belfry of Bruges
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The Belfry of Bruges

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portrait

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Bells of Shandon
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The Bells of Shandon

by Francis Sylvester Mahony · English

Francis Sylvester Mahony portrait

31 December 1805 - 18 May 1866 (~61)

Sound Sleep
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Sound Sleep

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Spleen
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Spleen

by Charles Baudelaire · French

Charles Baudelaire portrait

9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867 (~46)

Veneta
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Veneta

by Mary Coleridge · English

Mary Coleridge portrait

23 September 1861 - 25 August 1907 (~46)

The spire cranes
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The spire cranes

by Dylan Thomas · English

Dylan Thomas portrait

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

When I woke
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When I woke

by Dylan Thomas · English

Dylan Thomas portrait

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

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