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

Home › Glossary › Letter R

Rosé

Viniculture
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Rosé is a pink wine made from red grapes with limited skin contact, achieving a spectrum of salmon, blush, and copper hues.

Detailed Definition
Rosé’s poetic appeal is its in-betweenness—it is neither red nor white, a color of blush, dawn, and desire. Poets use rosé to discuss ambiguity, transition, and the beauty of liminal spaces. Its flavors range from fresh strawberry to dried herbs, offering variety. In verses about summer afternoons and romance, rosé is the wine of casual elegance, of picnics and seaside terraces. Its color evokes the skin of a lover, the fading light, and the gentle blending of opposites—a hybrid that resists easy categorization.
Example
Example in poetry:
Rosé|"Rosé, the wine of blush and summer, is a poem of in-betweenness, its salmon color a blend of red and white, of passion and restraint."; "The poet finds in rosé the taste of strawberries and herbs, a flavor of picnics and seaside afternoons."; "Rosé's versatility makes it a wine for all seasons, a subject for poems about the joy of the present moment."; "The poet uses rosé to evoke the romance of the Mediterranean, the light of the sun on the water."; "Rosé is a wine of casual elegance, a poem that is both simple and sophisticated."; "The poet compares rosé to a haiku, its brevity and beauty a perfect expression of a fleeting moment."
Additional Notes
Rosé is a pink wine made by allowing red grape skins to have limited contact with the juice, producing a range of hues from pale salmon to deep copper. This in-betweenness makes rosé a powerful symbol for ambiguity, transition, and the beauty of the blended or the hybrid. Rosé is often associated with summer, leisure, and the casual elegance of a picnic, making it a natural subject for poems about idyllic moments and the simple pleasures of life. Students should note that the flavor of rosé is as varied as its color, ranging from dry and mineral to fruity and sweet. Related terms include skin contact, color, and summer.
Other Meanings of “Rosé”
Also Known As
Rosado
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