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 S

Saffron

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 crocus species with purple flowers and valuable red stigmas used as spice and dye.

Detailed Definition
Saffron symbolizes preciousness, labor-intensive beauty, and luxury in poetry. The enormous number of flowers required for small amounts of saffron emphasizes value and effort. Its golden color and association with royal robes links it to wealth and power. In poetry, saffron represents the painstaking collection of tiny precious things, accumulated wealth, and beauty whose value lies not in appearance but in rare substances harvested from it. It evokes ancient trade routes and exotic luxury.
Example
Example in poetry:
Saffron's precious threads represent luxury, intense color, and costly spice; In Persian poetry, saffron crocus fields evoke ancient cultivation and trade wealth; The spice's use as dye creates imagery of concentrated color and transformation; Saffron in medieval manuscripts (illumination) connects to preserved beauty and religious art; The labor-intensive harvest (hand-picking stigmas) symbolizes value through effort; In culinary poetry, saffron represents dishes elevated by expensive ingredients
Additional Notes
Saffron, derived from Crocus sativus, carries connotations of luxury, sacrifice, and dawn light due to its golden hue. In classical and medieval poetry, saffron robes or skies suggest splendour and sacredness. Because harvesting requires delicate labour, it may symbolise patience and value extracted from fragility. Its colour imagery is especially potent in autumnal or liturgical verse.
Other Meanings of “Saffron”
Also Known As
Crocus Sativus Saffron Crocus Crocus
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