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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“land” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
landscape 99 poems island 10 poems highland 6 poems inland 4 poems garlands 2 poems islands 2 poems flanders 1 poem landlords 1 poem

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 4 / 699 1850s 18 / 966 1900s 7 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Hamatreya
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Hamatreya

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Lexington
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Lexington

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. · English

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. portrait

29 August 1809 - 7 October 1894 (~85)

Dreams
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Dreams

by Cecil Frances Alexander · English

Cecil Frances Alexander portrait

14 April 1818 - 12 October 1895 (~77)

Drummer Hodge
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Drummer Hodge

by Thomas Hardy · English

Thomas Hardy portrait

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

The New Colossus
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The New Colossus

by Emma Lazarus · English

Emma Lazarus portrait

22 July 1849 - 19 November 1887 (~38)

Dream-Land
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Dream-Land

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Exultation is the going
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Exultation is the going

by Emily Dickinson · English

Emily Dickinson portrait

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

Walls
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Walls

by Eva Gore-Booth · English

Eva Gore-Booth portrait

22 May 1870 - 30 June 1926 (~56)

The West Wind
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The West Wind

by John Masefield · English

John Masefield portrait

1 June 1878 - 12 May 1967 (~89)

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