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

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“domestic” 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 0 / 93 1600s 2 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 2 / 36 1750s 5 / 165 1800s 15 / 699 1850s 14 / 966 1900s 29 / 1143 1950s 1 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

The Invitation
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The Invitation

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

A Child To His Sick Grandfather
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A Child To His Sick Grandfather

by Joanna Baillie · English

Joanna Baillie portrait

11 September 1762 - 23 February 1851 (~89)

Breakfast
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Breakfast

by Mary Lamb · English

Mary Lamb portrait

3 December 1764 - 20 May 1847 (~83)

A Wish
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A Wish

by Samuel Rogers · English

Samuel Rogers portrait

30 July 1763 - 18 December 1855 (~92)

In My Cot, Tho' Small's My Store
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In My Cot, Tho' Small's My Store

by Amelia Alderson Opie · English

Amelia Alderson Opie portrait

12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853 (~84)

Saw Ye Johnny Comin
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Saw Ye Johnny Comin

by Joanna Baillie · English

Joanna Baillie portrait

11 September 1762 - 23 February 1851 (~89)

Love in a Life
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Love in a Life

by Robert Browning · English

Robert Browning portrait

7 May 1812 - 12 December 1889 (~77)

The Visionary
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The Visionary

by Emily Brontë · English

Emily Brontë portrait

30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848 (~30)

The Letter
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The Letter

by Charlotte Brontë · English

Charlotte Brontë portrait

21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855 (~39)

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