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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

Pick a theme and see how often it shows up across 50-year cohorts of V2Melody poets. Bars are normalised so small cohorts don't get drowned out by large ones.

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— none — world life love death beauty nature self social beloved desire memory divine spiritual heart grief power romantic suffering woman light soul dead body loss pain music wind philosophical voice landscape hope religious spring flowers sorrow children water faith bird lover rose silence mortality domestic presence childhood sound earth past consciousness truth dream women irish eyes flower garden mind rain lovers

“garden” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
gardens 3 poems gardener 3 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 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 12 1550s 2 / 93 1600s 1 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 4 / 165 1800s 6 / 699 1850s 20 / 966 1900s 23 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

To a Lady
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To a Lady

by William Dunbar · English

William Dunbar portrait

c. 1460 - c. 1520 (~60)

There Is a Garden in Her Face
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There Is a Garden in Her Face

by Thomas Campion · English

Thomas Campion portrait

12 February 1567 - 1 March 1620 (~53)

Loves Garden Grief
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Loves Garden Grief

by Robert Southwell · English

Robert Southwell portrait

c. 1561 - 21 February 1595 (~34)

The Cherry
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The Cherry

by Richard Allison · English

Richard Allison portrait

c. 1570 - c. 1615 (~45)

A Poison Tree
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A Poison Tree

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

Envy
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Envy

by Mary Lamb · English

Mary Lamb portrait

3 December 1764 - 20 May 1847 (~83)

The Lily and the Rose
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The Lily and the Rose

by William Cowper · English

William Cowper portrait

26 November 1731 - 25 April 1800 (~69)

The Garden of Love
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The Garden of Love

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

Captain Cook (To My Brother)
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Captain Cook (To My Brother)

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon · English

Letitia Elizabeth Landon portrait

14 August 1802 - 15 October 1838 (~36)

I Remember, I Remember
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I Remember, I Remember

by Thomas Hood · English

Thomas Hood portrait

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

My Garden
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My Garden

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Come into the garden, Maud
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Come into the garden, Maud

by Alfred Lord Tennyson · English

Alfred Lord Tennyson portrait

6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892 (~83)

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