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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. 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


Theme Timeline

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love 920 poems loved 6 poems

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

pre-1500 2 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 4 / 12 1550s 20 / 93 1600s 43 / 183 1650s 13 / 60 1700s 1 / 36 1750s 10 / 165 1800s 64 / 699 1850s 81 / 966 1900s 81 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Canzoniere 11
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Canzoniere 11

by Francesco Petrarca · Italian

Francesco Petrarca portrait

1304 - 19 July 1374 (~70)

O friend, accept me and take my life
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O friend, accept me and take my life

by Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī · Persian

Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī portrait

30 September 1207 - 17 December 1273 (~66)

I Find No Peace
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I Find No Peace

by Sir Thomas Wyatt · English

Sir Thomas Wyatt portrait

c. 1503 - 11 October 1542 (~39)

Your Looks so Often Cast
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Your Looks so Often Cast

by Sir Thomas Wyatt · English

Sir Thomas Wyatt portrait

c. 1503 - 11 October 1542 (~39)

Give Place, Ye Lovers
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Give Place, Ye Lovers

by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey · English

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey portrait

c. 1517 - 19 January 1547 (~30)

A True Love
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A True Love

by Nicholas Grimald · English

Nicholas Grimald portrait

c. 1519 - c. May 1562 (~43)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

by Christopher Marlowe · English

Christopher Marlowe portrait

26 February 1564 - 30 May 1593 (~29)

Sonnet 18
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Sonnet 18

by William Shakespeare · English

William Shakespeare portrait

c. 23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 (~52)

Fayre eyes
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Fayre eyes

by Edmund Spenser · English

Edmund Spenser portrait

c. 1552 - 13 January 1599 (~47)

Men call you fayre
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Men call you fayre

by Edmund Spenser · English

Edmund Spenser portrait

c. 1552 - 13 January 1599 (~47)

Only Joy, Now Here You Are
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Only Joy, Now Here You Are

by Sir Philip Sidney · English

Sir Philip Sidney portrait

30 November 1554 - 17 October 1586 (~32)

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