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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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— 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

“world” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
worlds 3 poems worldly 2 poems worldview 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 9 / 30 BCE 4 / 12 1500s 3 / 12 1550s 18 / 93 1600s 39 / 183 1650s 13 / 60 1700s 10 / 36 1750s 38 / 165 1800s 253 / 699 1850s 312 / 966 1900s 550 / 1143 1950s 5 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Caedmon's Hymn
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Caedmon's Hymn

by Caedmon · Old English

Caedmon portrait

c. 600 - c. 681 (~81)

Sumer is icumen in
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Sumer is icumen in

by W. de Wycombe · Middle English

W. de Wycombe portrait

c. 1270 - c. 1330 (~60)

Let Us Drink!
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Let Us Drink!

by Abu Nuwas · Arabic

Abu Nuwas portrait

c. 756 - c. 814 (~58)

The Wife's Lament
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The Wife's Lament

by Ealhswith of Mercia · Old English

Ealhswith of Mercia portrait

c. 920 - c. 970 (~50)

General Prologue - Opening
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General Prologue - Opening

by Geoffrey Chaucer · Middle English

Geoffrey Chaucer portrait

c. 1343 - 25 October 1400 (~57)

Lu Chai
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Lu Chai

by Wang Wei · Mandarin Chinese

Wang Wei portrait

699 - 761 (~62)

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)

phainetai moi
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phainetai moi

by Sappho · Greek

Sappho portrait

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

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)

The Steady Fire
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The Steady Fire

by Albius Tibullus · Latin

Albius Tibullus portrait

c. 55 BC - 19 BC (~36)

Time
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Time

by Sir Thomas More · English

Sir Thomas More portrait

7 February 1478 - 6 July 1535 (~57)

Your Looks so Often Cast
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Your Looks so Often Cast

by Sir Thomas Wyatt · English

Sir Thomas Wyatt portrait

c. 1503 - 11 October 1542 (~39)

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