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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“love” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
beloved 319 poems lover 73 poems lovers 55 poems loves 7 poems loved 6 poems clover 2 poems lovest 1 poem loving 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 10 / 30 BCE 6 / 12 1500s 5 / 12 1550s 44 / 93 1600s 103 / 183 1650s 37 / 60 1700s 11 / 36 1750s 59 / 165 1800s 163 / 699 1850s 228 / 966 1900s 252 / 1143 1950s 2 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Come, Come, Whoever You Are
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Come, Come, Whoever You Are

by Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī · Persian

Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī portrait

30 September 1207 - 17 December 1273 (~66)

Tanto gentile, e tanto onesta pare
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Tanto gentile, e tanto onesta pare

by Dante Alighieri · Italian

Dante Alighieri portrait

c. May 1265 - 14 September 1321 (~56)

Merciles Beaute
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Merciles Beaute

by Geoffrey Chaucer · Middle English

Geoffrey Chaucer portrait

c. 1343 - 25 October 1400 (~57)

Canzoniere 61
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Canzoniere 61

by Francesco Petrarca · Italian

Francesco Petrarca portrait

1304 - 19 July 1374 (~70)

Canzoniere 11
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Canzoniere 11

by Francesco Petrarca · Italian

Francesco Petrarca portrait

1304 - 19 July 1374 (~70)

Praise of Women
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Praise of Women

by Robert Mannyng of Brunne · English

Robert Mannyng of Brunne portrait

1288 - c. 1338 (~50)

Odi et amo
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Odi et amo

by Gaius Valerius Catullus · Latin

Gaius Valerius Catullus portrait

c. 84 BC - c. 54 BC (~30)

Laodamia's Lament
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Laodamia's Lament

by Publius Ovidius Naso · Latin

Publius Ovidius Naso portrait

20 March 43 BC - c. 17 (~60)

Ode IV.1
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Ode IV.1

by Quintus Horatius Flaccus · Latin

Quintus Horatius Flaccus portrait

8 December 65 BC - 27 November 8 BC (~38)

Hymn to Aphrodite
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Hymn to Aphrodite

by Sappho · Greek

Sappho portrait

c. 610 BC - c. 570 BC (~40)

phainetai moi
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phainetai moi

by Sappho · Greek

Sappho portrait

c. 610 BC - c. 570 BC (~40)

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