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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Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below.

pre-1500 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 12 1550s 1 / 93 1600s 2 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 1 / 165 1800s 5 / 699 1850s 4 / 966 1900s 2 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Chun Wang
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Chun Wang

by Du Fu · Mandarin Chinese

Du Fu portrait

712 - 770 (~58)

Sonnet 18
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Sonnet 18

by William Shakespeare · English

William Shakespeare portrait

c. 23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 (~52)

Psalm 34
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Psalm 34

by King James Bible · English

King James Bible portrait

1611 - present

1 Corinthians 13
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1 Corinthians 13

by King James Bible · English

King James Bible portrait

1611 - present

When last we parted
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When last we parted

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

A Psalm of Life
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A Psalm of Life

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portrait

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

A Visit from St. Nicholas
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A Visit from St. Nicholas

by Clement Clarke Moore · English

Clement Clarke Moore portrait

15 July 1779 - 10 July 1863 (~84)

In School-Days
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In School-Days

by John Greenleaf Whittier · English

John Greenleaf Whittier portrait

17 December 1807 - 7 September 1892 (~85)

Our first young love
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Our first young love

by Thomas Moore · English

Thomas Moore portrait

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

The Valley of Unrest
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The Valley of Unrest

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

Edgar Allan Poe portrait

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

Hope is the thing with feathers
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Hope is the thing with feathers

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Richard Cory
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Richard Cory

by Edwin Arlington Robinson · English

Edwin Arlington Robinson portrait

22 December 1869 - 6 April 1935 (~66)

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