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

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

“irish” 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 0 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 0 / 165 1800s 14 / 699 1850s 13 / 966 1900s 32 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Mise Raifteirí an File
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Mise Raifteirí an File

by Antoine Ó Raifteirí · Irish Gaelic

Antoine Ó Raifteirí portrait

c. 30 March 1779 - 25 December 1835 (~56)

Eibhlín a Rún
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Eibhlín a Rún

by Antoine Ó Raifteirí · Irish Gaelic

Antoine Ó Raifteirí portrait

c. 30 March 1779 - 25 December 1835 (~56)

Oh! breathe not his name
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Oh! breathe not his name

by Thomas Moore · English

Thomas Moore portrait

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

How dear to me the hour
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How dear to me the hour

by Thomas Moore · English

Thomas Moore portrait

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

The Legacy
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The Legacy

by Thomas Moore · English

Thomas Moore portrait

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

The Fairies
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The Fairies

by William Allingham · English

William Allingham portrait

19 March 1824 - 18 November 1889 (~65)

I Shall Not Die For Thee
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I Shall Not Die For Thee

by Douglas Hyde · English

Douglas Hyde portrait

17 January 1860 - 12 July 1949 (~89)

What is Good
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What is Good

by John Boyle O'Reilly · English

John Boyle O'Reilly portrait

28 June 1844 - 10 August 1890 (~46)

September 1913
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September 1913

by William Butler Yeats · English

William Butler Yeats portrait

13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939 (~74)

A Young Man's Song
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A Young Man's Song

by William Butler Yeats · English

William Butler Yeats portrait

13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939 (~74)

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