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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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“memory” 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 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 12 1550s 3 / 93 1600s 2 / 183 1650s 1 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 13 / 165 1800s 80 / 699 1850s 92 / 966 1900s 75 / 1143 1950s 1 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Jin Se
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Jin Se

by Li Shangyin · Mandarin Chinese

Li Shangyin portrait

c. 812 - c. 858 (~46)

They Flee From Me
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They Flee From Me

by Sir Thomas Wyatt · English

Sir Thomas Wyatt portrait

c. 1503 - 11 October 1542 (~39)

Alas, poor Yorick!
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Alas, poor Yorick!

by William Shakespeare · English

William Shakespeare portrait

c. 23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 (~52)

Beauty sat bathing by a spring
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Beauty sat bathing by a spring

by Anthony Munday · English

Anthony Munday portrait

c. 13 October 1560 - 10 August 1633 (~73)

To Laurels
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To Laurels

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

Love and Life
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Love and Life

by John Wilmot · English

John Wilmot portrait

1 April 1647 - 26 July 1680 (~33)

I thank thee God, that I have lived
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I thank thee God, that I have lived

by Elizabeth Craven · English

Elizabeth Craven portrait

17 December 1750 - 13 January 1828 (~78)

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)

When last we parted
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When last we parted

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

Oh! when 'tis summer weather
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Oh! when 'tis summer weather

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

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