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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“dreams” across the centuries

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dream 62 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 0 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 12 1550s 0 / 93 1600s 1 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 0 / 165 1800s 7 / 699 1850s 5 / 966 1900s 10 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Seal up her Eyes, O sleep
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Seal up her Eyes, O sleep

by William Cartwright · English

William Cartwright portrait

1 September 1611 - 29 November 1643 (~32)

The Indian Serenade
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The Indian Serenade

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · English

Percy Bysshe Shelley portrait

4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822 (~30)

Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!
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Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · English

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley portrait

30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851 (~54)

Oh, Love Me! Love Me Still!
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Oh, Love Me! Love Me Still!

by Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan · English

Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan portrait

22 March 1808 - 15 June 1877 (~69)

A Dream
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A Dream

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

Edgar Allan Poe portrait

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

Dreams
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Dreams

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

Edgar Allan Poe portrait

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

The Old Man Dreams
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The Old Man Dreams

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. · English

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. portrait

29 August 1809 - 7 October 1894 (~85)

Ode
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Ode

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

Arthur O'Shaughnessy portrait

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

A Year Ago
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A Year Ago

by Philip Bourke Marston · English

Philip Bourke Marston portrait

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

Treasure Song
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Treasure Song

by A. Mary F. Robinson · English

A. Mary F. Robinson portrait

27 February 1857 - 9 February 1944 (~87)

The Garden of Dreams
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The Garden of Dreams

by Bliss Carman · English

Bliss Carman portrait

15 April 1861 - 8 June 1929 (~68)

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

by Eugene Field · English

Eugene Field portrait

2 September 1850 - 4 November 1895 (~45)

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