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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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“romantic” across the centuries

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roman 8 poems

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 1 / 183 1650s 3 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 26 / 165 1800s 117 / 699 1850s 11 / 966 1900s 20 / 1143 1950s 1 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

by Christopher Marlowe · English

Christopher Marlowe portrait

26 February 1564 - 30 May 1593 (~29)

Now fie on foolish love
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Now fie on foolish love

by Francis Beaumont · English

Francis Beaumont portrait

1584 - 6 March 1616 (~32)

The Match
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The Match

by Andrew Marvell · English

Andrew Marvell portrait

31 March 1621 - 16 August 1678 (~57)

Against Indifference
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Against Indifference

by Charles Webbe · English

Charles Webbe portrait

c. 1650 - c. 1680 (~30)

The Enchantment
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The Enchantment

by Thomas Otway · English

Thomas Otway portrait

3 March 1652 - 14 April 1685 (~33)

A Wish
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A Wish

by Samuel Rogers · English

Samuel Rogers portrait

30 July 1763 - 18 December 1855 (~92)

Dover Cliffs
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Dover Cliffs

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

To a Friend
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To a Friend

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

Music
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Music

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

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)

Hymn to Woden
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Hymn to Woden

by William Lisle Bowles · English

William Lisle Bowles portrait

24 September 1762 - 7 April 1850 (~88)

The Owl and the Pussy-cat
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The Owl and the Pussy-cat

by Edward Lear · English

Edward Lear portrait

12 May 1812 - 29 January 1888 (~76)

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