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 T

Tea Rose

Flora
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

A class of rose with delicate, often fragrant blooms in pastel colors, suggesting the scent of tea.

Detailed Definition
Tea roses symbolize refined beauty, "I'll remember always," and elegance in poetry. Their association with tea suggests civility, ceremony, and refined pleasures. The pastel colors represent subtlety versus bold hues. In Victorian and garden poetry, tea roses evoke formal gardens and cultivated beauty. Their somewhat tender nature makes them represent beauty requiring protection. Poets use tea roses to represent memories preserved, refined sentiment, and flowers whose delicacy of color and scent epitomize cultivation's achievements in breeding beauty to ideal forms.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tea roses' elegant buds and refined fragrance represent sophistication and hybrid excellence; In Victorian garden poetry, tea roses symbolize horticultural achievement and exotic parentage; The flowers' high-centered form creates imagery of perfect proportion; Tea roses' repeat blooming represents generous, sustained beauty; In rose history poetry, tea roses mark the introduction of Asian genetics; The subtle colors and graceful habit contrast with bold hybrid perpetuals
Additional Notes
Tea roses, with their delicate pastel tones and refined fragrance, often symbolise grace, nostalgia, and cultivated elegance. Popular in nineteenth-century gardens, they evoke drawing-room sensibility and romantic restraint. Their association with afternoon tea and polite society can enrich social or historical settings, while their softness contrasts with wilder rose varieties.
Also Known As
Hybrid Tea Tea-Scented Rose
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