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.

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 W

Wild 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

Any of various rose species growing without cultivation, with simple five-petaled flowers and thorns.

Detailed Definition
Wild roses symbolize simplicity, natural beauty, and sometimes the purity that precedes cultivation's corruption. Compared to cultivated roses' layers, wild roses represent stripped-down essence. In poetry, wild roses evoke hedgerows, wilderness, and beauty flourishing without human intervention. Thorns remain prominent, representing protection and the pain accompanying even simple beauty. Poets use wild roses to represent natural versus artificial, the template from which varieties spring, and beauty that doesn't require improvement, embodying authentic and uncomplicated charm.
Example
Example in poetry:
In The Prelude, the wild rose often appears as part of the untamed hedgerow, symbolising spontaneous rural beauty; A poet might contrast the cultivated garden rose with the wild rose to suggest innocence versus artifice; In Scottish ballad tradition, the wild rose is used to evoke native landscape and national identity; A modern eco-poem could use the wild rose pushing through barbed wire as an emblem of resilience and quiet resistance.
Additional Notes
Wild rose, with its simple five petals and prominent thorns, often represents natural beauty unrefined by cultivation. In contrast to hybrid roses, it suggests authenticity and pastoral innocence. Its hips in autumn extend its symbolic life into themes of nourishment, resilience, and seasonal continuity.
Also Known As
Dog Rose Briar Rose Eglantine (wild species)
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