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


Theme Timeline

Pick a theme and see how often it shows up across 50-year cohorts of V2Melody poets. Bars are normalised so small cohorts don't get drowned out by large ones.

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— none — world life love death beauty nature self social beloved desire memory divine spiritual heart grief power romantic suffering woman light soul dead body loss pain music wind philosophical voice landscape hope religious spring flowers sorrow children water faith bird lover rose silence mortality domestic presence childhood sound earth past consciousness truth dream women irish eyes flower garden mind rain lovers

“blue” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
bluebeard 1 poem bluebird 1 poem bluebell 1 poem blues 1 poem

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 0 / 93 1600s 0 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 0 / 165 1800s 2 / 699 1850s 8 / 966 1900s 8 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

To the Fringed Gentian
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To the Fringed Gentian

by William Cullen Bryant · English

William Cullen Bryant portrait

3 November 1794 - 12 June 1878 (~84)

Field Asters
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Field Asters

by Herman Melville · English

Herman Melville portrait

1 August 1819 - 28 September 1891 (~72)

Color
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Color

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Fata Morgana
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Fata Morgana

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Spring
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Spring

by Gerard Manley Hopkins · English

Gerard Manley Hopkins portrait

28 July 1844 - 8 June 1889 (~45)

Shipwreck
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Shipwreck

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Brain
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The Brain

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The White Peacock
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The White Peacock

by William Sharp · English

William Sharp portrait

12 September 1855 - 12 December 1905 (~50)

The Enchanted Sheep-Fold
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The Enchanted Sheep-Fold

by Josephine Preston Peabody · English

Josephine Preston Peabody portrait

30 May 1874 - 4 December 1922 (~48)

Morning Work
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Morning Work

by D. H. Lawrence · English

D. H. Lawrence portrait

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy-Blue
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Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy-Blue

by A. A. Milne · English

A. A. Milne portrait

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

On the Hills
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On the Hills

by Ford Madox Hueffer · English

Ford Madox Hueffer portrait

17 December 1873 - 26 June 1939 (~66)

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