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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

“landscape” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
land 29 poems landscapes 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 1 / 93 1600s 0 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 5 / 165 1800s 30 / 699 1850s 31 / 966 1900s 32 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

O lusty May
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O lusty May

by David Melvill · English

David Melvill portrait

c. 1544 - 1614 (~70)

Wanderer's Nightsong
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Wanderer's Nightsong

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · German

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe portrait

28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832 (~83)

To the Lark
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To the Lark

by Anna Lætitia Barbauld · English

Anna Lætitia Barbauld portrait

20 June 1743 - 9 March 1825 (~82)

The Highland Lassie
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The Highland Lassie

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

My heart's in the Highlands
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My heart's in the Highlands

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

Lochleven No More
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Lochleven No More

by Michael Bruce · English

Michael Bruce portrait

27 March 1746 - 5 July 1767 (~21)

Mild the mist upon the hill
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Mild the mist upon the hill

by Emily Brontë · English

Emily Brontë portrait

30 July 1818 - 19 December 1848 (~30)

Speak of the North! A lonely moor
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Speak of the North! A lonely moor

by Charlotte Brontë · English

Charlotte Brontë portrait

21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855 (~39)

Hohenlinden
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Hohenlinden

by Thomas Campbell · English

Thomas Campbell portrait

27 July 1777 - 15 June 1844 (~67)

I saw the moon rise clear
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I saw the moon rise clear

by Thomas Moore · English

Thomas Moore portrait

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

Ode: Autumn
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Ode: Autumn

by Thomas Hood · English

Thomas Hood portrait

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

Patty
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Patty

by John Clare · English

John Clare portrait

13 July 1793 - 20 May 1864 (~71)

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