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

Thyme

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 low-growing herb with tiny leaves and pink flowers, symbolizing courage and time.

Detailed Definition
Thyme embodies bravery, the passage of time, and the quiet strength of small things in poetry. Its name echoes “time,” and its use in embalming links it to memory. Poets reference it to suggest that valor often resides in the humble and the fleeting.
Example
Example in poetry:
Thyme appears in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as fairy bedding: “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows”; In Victorian floriography, thyme meant “courage” or “activity”; Modern culinary poets link it to memory: “Thyme in the stew—grandmother’s hands remembered”; In love poetry, creeping thyme symbolizes humble devotion: “Our love—thyme: small, fragrant, underfoot”; In eco-poetry, it’s pollinator-friendly ground cover: “Bees hum over thyme on the stone path”; In sensory verse, its pungent scent clears the mind: “Thyme breath—sharp, green, alive.”
Additional Notes
Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) symbolizes courage, activity, and refinement; in medieval times, it was embroidered on knightly scarves; in Shakespeare (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”), fairies “feed on the banks of thyme,” linking it to enchantment and pastoral idyll; its low, aromatic mats suit imagery of humble virtue or sensory grounding; note wild thyme’s role in pollinator habitats for ecological subtext.
Other Meanings of “Thyme”
Also Known As
Common Thyme Garden Thyme Wild Thyme
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