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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


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“mind” 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 1 / 12 1500s 0 / 12 1550s 3 / 93 1600s 2 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 6 / 165 1800s 17 / 699 1850s 10 / 966 1900s 14 / 1143 1950s 1 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Upon a Dead Man's Head
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Upon a Dead Man's Head

by John Skelton · English

John Skelton portrait

c. 1460 - 21 June 1529 (~69)

Ode II.11
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Ode II.11

by Quintus Horatius Flaccus · Latin

Quintus Horatius Flaccus portrait

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

Men call you fayre
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Men call you fayre

by Edmund Spenser · English

Edmund Spenser portrait

c. 1552 - 13 January 1599 (~47)

Out of Sight, Out of Mind
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind

by Barnabe Googe · English

Barnabe Googe portrait

11 June 1540 - February 1594 (~54)

Fancy, Farewell
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Fancy, Farewell

by Sir Edward Dyer · English

Sir Edward Dyer portrait

c. October 1543 - 11 May 1607 (~64)

On Tea
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On Tea

by Edmund Waller · English

Edmund Waller portrait

3 March 1606 - 21 October 1687 (~81)

The Dreame
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The Dreame

by Ben Jonson · English

Ben Jonson portrait

c. 11 June 1572 - 6 August 1637 (~65)

Envy
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Envy

by Mary Lamb · English

Mary Lamb portrait

3 December 1764 - 20 May 1847 (~83)

Milton, In Age
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Milton, In Age

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

The Mouse's Petition
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The Mouse's Petition

by Anna Lætitia Barbauld · English

Anna Lætitia Barbauld portrait

20 June 1743 - 9 March 1825 (~82)

An Hymn to the Evening
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An Hymn to the Evening

by Phillis Wheatley · English

Phillis Wheatley portrait

c. 1753 - 5 December 1784 (~31)

What Is Love?
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What Is Love?

by Thomas Paine · English

Thomas Paine portrait

9 February 1737 - 8 June 1809 (~72)

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