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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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“delight” across the centuries

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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 2 / 93 1600s 1 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 3 / 165 1800s 3 / 699 1850s 3 / 966 1900s 2 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

In Youth Is Pleasure
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In Youth Is Pleasure

by Robert Wever · English

Robert Wever portrait

c. 1520 - c. 1570 (~50)

Loves Garden Grief
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Loves Garden Grief

by Robert Southwell · English

Robert Southwell portrait

c. 1561 - 21 February 1595 (~34)

To Music, to Becalm His Fever
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To Music, to Becalm His Fever

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

Infant Joy
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Infant Joy

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

My Pretty Rose Tree
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My Pretty Rose Tree

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies
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On a Bed of Guernsey Lilies

by Christopher Smart · English

Christopher Smart portrait

11 April 1722 - 21 May 1770 (~48)

The Jumblies
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The Jumblies

by Edward Lear · English

Edward Lear portrait

12 May 1812 - 29 January 1888 (~76)

Written After a Snow-Storm
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Written After a Snow-Storm

by Clement Clarke Moore · English

Clement Clarke Moore portrait

15 July 1779 - 10 July 1863 (~84)

The Great Black Crow
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The Great Black Crow

by Philip James Bailey · English

Philip James Bailey portrait

22 April 1816 - 6 September 1902 (~86)

I taste a liquor never brewed
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I taste a liquor never brewed

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Tramp
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The Tramp

by Ben King · English

Ben King portrait

17 March 1857 - 8 April 1894 (~37)

Wild Birds
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Wild Birds

by Edgar Lee Masters · English

Edgar Lee Masters portrait

23 August 1868 - 5 March 1950 (~82)

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