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


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“earthly” across the centuries

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earth 64 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 2 / 183 1650s 1 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 1 / 165 1800s 4 / 699 1850s 6 / 966 1900s 4 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

The Court of True Honour
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The Court of True Honour

by William Drummond · English

William Drummond portrait

13 December 1585 - 4 December 1649 (~64)

Epitaph
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Epitaph

by Katherine Philips · English

Katherine Philips portrait

1 January 1632 - 22 June 1664 (~32)

Would you be young again?
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Would you be young again?

by Lady Nairne · English

Lady Nairne portrait

16 August 1766 - 26 October 1845 (~79)

Bards of Passion and of Mirth
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Bards of Passion and of Mirth

by John Keats · English

John Keats portrait

31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821 (~26)

Calm be thy sleep
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Calm be thy sleep

by Thomas Moore · English

Thomas Moore portrait

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

The Nun's Aspiration
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The Nun's Aspiration

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

I heed not that my earthly lot
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I heed not that my earthly lot

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

Edgar Allan Poe portrait

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

To fight aloud is very brave
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To fight aloud is very brave

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

It was too late for man
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It was too late for man

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

To a Lady Asking Foolish Questions
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To a Lady Asking Foolish Questions

by Ernest Dowson · English

Ernest Dowson portrait

2 August 1867 - 23 February 1900 (~33)

The Soul's Parting
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The Soul's Parting

by Dorothy Greenwell · English

Dorothy Greenwell portrait

6 December 1821 - 29 March 1882 (~61)

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