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.

Choose a theme

— 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

“presence” across the centuries

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 0 / 12 1550s 1 / 93 1600s 2 / 183 1650s 1 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 1 / 165 1800s 16 / 699 1850s 19 / 966 1900s 26 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

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)

My Ladies presence makes the roses red
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My Ladies presence makes the roses red

by Henry Constable · English

Henry Constable portrait

1562 - October 1613 (~51)

The Dreame
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The Dreame

by John Donne · English

John Donne portrait

1572 - 31 March 1631 (~59)

My Picture
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My Picture

by Abraham Cowley · English

Abraham Cowley portrait

1618 - 28 July 1667 (~49)

On her Loving Two Equally
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On her Loving Two Equally

by Aphra Behn · English

Aphra Behn portrait

1640 - 16 April 1689 (~49)

Amoret
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Amoret

by Mark Akenside · English

Mark Akenside portrait

9 November 1721 - 23 June 1770 (~49)

To Night
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To Night

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · English

Percy Bysshe Shelley portrait

4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822 (~30)

Song of Myself, 51
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Song of Myself, 51

by Walt Whitman · English

Walt Whitman portrait

31 May 1819 - 26 March 1892 (~73)

Go where glory waits thee
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Go where glory waits thee

by Thomas Moore · English

Thomas Moore portrait

28 May 1779 - 25 February 1852 (~73)

Silence
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Silence

by Thomas Hood · English

Thomas Hood portrait

23 May 1799 - 3 May 1845 (~46)

The Lover
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The Lover

by Walter Savage Landor · English

Walter Savage Landor portrait

30 January 1775 - 17 September 1864 (~89)

Destiny
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Destiny

by Ralph Waldo Emerson · English

Ralph Waldo Emerson portrait

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

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