Haikus: March 2008

HAIKUS: March 2008

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Saturday, March 1, 2008, 10:03-10:22 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Garrick Ohlsson plays
Frederic Chopin, (Listen), CD, YouTube
Fantasy on Polish Airs, Op. 13 (1828)

Waterfall cascades
by the crystal palace
and Tinker Bell is here. Saturday, March 1, 2008, 10:56-11:04 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: John Williams
(Listen), CD, YouTube
E.T.: Flying Theme (1982)

E.T. and Elliot
escaping by bike—
flying over a forest

Sunday, March 2, 2008, 12:20-12:36 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Charles Mackerras conducts
Bedrich Smetana, (Listen), CD, YouTube
Ma Vlast: The Moldau (1874)

At first a trickle,
then the stream widens
to a vast flowing river. Sunday, March 2, 2008, 12:39-1:02 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Maria Joao Pires plays
Franz Schubert, (Listen), CD, YouTube
Impromptu #2 in A-flat major, Op. 142 (1827)

Slow tunes of Schubert
make you relax so calmly—
you feel full of peace.

Sunday, March 2, 2008, 10:00-11:55 pm
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks:
Chris Weitz directs "The Golden Compass" (2007)
starring Dakota Blue Richards & Nicole Kidman

The golden compass
of truth is in your hands—
Now, what will you ask? Monday, March 3, 2008, 12:00 am-4:00 am
Mountain View, Jack gives me a ride home
and rants about politics. He's for Hillary.
I prefer philosophers than politicians.

Buddha and Plato
did more good for us than
Kings who ruled in history.

Monday, March 3, 2008, 12:40-12:56 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Janine Jansen plays
Ralph Vaughan WIlliams, (Listen), CD, YouTube George Meredith Poem, Lark Ascending (1914)

Blake's 28th lark
is here to inspire us
so we too could ascend. Monday, March 3, 2008, 2:07-2:22 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Eugene Ormandy conducts
George Frederick Handel, (Listen), CD, YouTube
Xerxes: Ombra mai fu "Largo" (1738)

Xerxes is in love
with the palm in his garden
much more than his queen.

Monday, March 3, 2008, 3:30 pm
California Street, Mountain View
Friend takes me grocery
shopping at Safeway—

Fish fillets, pizza,
mozarella cheese, milk,
carrots, granola bars,
and potato salad. Monday, March 3, 2008, 7:00-9:00 pm
Stanford Humanities Center, Presidential Lecture,
Professor Richard Taruskin, UC Berkeley
"Shall We Change the Subject? A Music
Historian Reflects", (NY Times, 12-9-2001)

Adam's Klinghoffer opera
romanticizes terroists,
so it's wrong to show it.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 11:51 am-12:01 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Erich Leinsdorf conducts
Igor Stravinsky, (Listen), CD, YouTube
"Firebird" (1910)

The phoenix— firebird
from the sun returns to earth
in five hundred years. Why? Tuesday, March 4, 2008, 12:06-12:28 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Evgeny Kissin plays Beethoven
(Listen), CD, YouTube, Analysis, (1801)
"Moonlight" Sonata #14 in C# (Full Moons)

Snow Moon, Hunger Moon,
Opening Buds Moon— your pearls
of light make spring bloom.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 11:12-11:28 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Valery Gergiev conducts
Rimsky-Korsakov, (Listen), CD, YouTube
"Scheherazade", Op. 35 (1888)

She enchants the King
with exotic tales for
1001 nights. Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 12:33-12:44 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Claudio Abbado conducts Johannes Brahms, (Listen), CD, YouTube
Hungarian Dances #4, 5, 7 (1880)

Exuberant tunes—
Brahms' Hungarian Dances
for cossacks' frenzied leaps.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 4:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Reading about Dr. Tim Keller
(NY Times, 2-26-2006) and
Hiddenness of God (June 2003 sermon)

Suffering comes to Joseph
but so does God's love and
wisdom that made him great. Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 7:00-9:00 pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University
Dr. Tim Keller, (Redeemer Presbyterian Church, NYC), "Belief in an Age of Skepticism",
Book: "The Reason for God"

He tackles the doubts
head on— Why does God allow
suffering in the world?

Thursday, March 6, 2008, 4:15-6:15 pm
Building 380, Room 380C, Stanford University
Prof. Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Dept. of French
Symbolic Systems Forum: "Truth in Fiction"

Why fictional characters
play a more important role
in our life than real persons? Thursday, March 6, 2008, 6:40-10:30 pm
Building 420, Room 41C, Stanford University
Film: Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958)
Discussion with Prof. Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Scottie has undying
love for Madeleine
who never existed.

Friday, March 7, 2008, 7:30-9:30 pm
Friends' House, 957 Colorado, Palo Alto
Waverley Writers' Poetry Reading
I read two poems: "Call to Poetry",
& "Seven Pines at Woeber House"

Blake ceased to praise the muses
when he found they were
the daughters of Memory. Saturday, March 8, 2008, 4:15-4:21 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Itzhak Perlman
plays Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: "Winter" Op. 8, #4
(Listen) CD, YouTube

Winter snowflakes fall
on my white page turning
faint words into poetry.

Sunday, March 9, 2008, 11:16-11:24 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li plays Franz Liszt,
(Listen), CD, YouTube: Arthur Rubinstein
Liebestraum #3 (1850)

Liszt's Liebestraum wakes
me up this morning— love dream
fades to daylight time. Sunday, March 9, 2008, 11:28-11:39 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Mark Elder conducts
Frederic Delius, (Listen), CD, YouTube
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (1901)

Walking with Dante
in the Paradise Garden—
flowers everywhere!

Sunday, March 9, 2008, 2:00-4:00 pm
Memorial Auditorium, Aurora Forum, Against Ignorance: Science Education in the 21st Century:
A Conversation with Richard Dawkins &
Lawrence M. Krauss, Moderator: Mark Kay

Can science battle with
religion in schools teaching
intelligent design? Sunday, March 9, 2008, 10:00-11:41 pm
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks:
Francis Lawrence directs "I Am Legend" (2007)
starring Will Smith. Film based on
Richard Matheson 1954 Sci-Fi Novel

Man-made virus kills
everyone as he races
to discover a cure.

Monday, March 10, 2008, 3:00-4:30 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
Ian Punnett interviews Dr. Jim Hardt
"The Power of Alpha Waves"

Alpha waves hindered by
anger, anxiety, boredom,
distraction, worry, doubt. Monday, March 10, 2008, 12:26-12:33pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jean-Philippe Rameau
(Listen), CD
Temple of Glory (1745)

Temple of Glory
is within your spine— Sit straight.
Let the Light flow up.

Monday, March 10, 2008, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Cary Grant & Grace Kelly in
Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" (1955)

The cat burglar strikes
again— but the old hand
proclaims he's innocent. Monday, March 10, 2008, 9:25-11:10 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, Grace Kelly
Ray Milland, & Robert Cummings in
Alfred Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" (1954)

Mystery, suspense, murder—
He sets up a perfect crime
but is caught at last.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 11:00-11:04 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Giacomo Puccini
Madame Butterfly: Humming Chorus (1904)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

The Humming Chorus
of bees, birds, butterflies
wake the flowers to bloom. Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 11:16-11:28 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Alexander Borodin,
In the Steppes of Central Asia, (1880)
(Listen) (CD) (YouTube)

Rumi was born here
before Mongols made him
whirl westward with his songs.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 12:11-12:25 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto #5 "Emperor", 2nd Movement
(Listen), CD, YouTube, Analysis (1809)

Soothing and tender,
movement of simple sounds—
pure lyrical delight. Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 1:00-2:30 pm
Mountain View: Friend takes me shopping
at Trader Joe's, Milk Pail, and Safeway

Sesame sticks, eggs,
baby carrots, green onions,
green pepper, red grapes,
honey ham, quiche Florentine.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 5:00 pm
Getting off the Palm Drive Shuttle
Bus at the Stanford Oval, I walked
to Green Library and overheard
one woman telling another:

"I'm so frustrated—
Bought this big head of lettuce
and can't eat it all!" Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 9:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Bookmarking NY Times science articles
Efficiency of ants in cutting mangoes

It's geometry—
leaves are 2-dimensional,
mangoes are 3-dimensional,
so larger ants cut them better.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 12:33-12:48 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Evgeny Kissin plays Beethoven,
Rage Over a Lost Penny, Op. 129 (1795)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Range of emotions
from rage to sage— Beethoven
could soar through them all. Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 1:41-1:53 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Georges Prêtre conducts
Johann Strauss, Jr. (Listen) CD, YouTube
On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 (1867)

What a joy to waltz
in springtime to Strauss's
Beautiful Blue Danube.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 7:00-7:40 pm
Roble Studio Theater, Stanford University
Celebration of Emily's Dickinson's Life & Work
Amy Freed's play "The Ghoul of Amherst"

Emily's childhood
friend died— Is this why she was
so preoccupied with death? Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 7:45-8:48 pm
Roble Studio Theater, Stanford University
Celebration of Emily's Dickinson's Life & Work
Discussions on "Soul at the White Heat"

Emily's poems are
little theater pieces—
funny, sardonic, wicked.

Thursday, March 13, 2008, 1:01-1:38 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Stephen Kovacevich plays
Robert Schumann, (Listen), CD, YouTube,
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 (1845)

Robert and Clara
nourished the young Brahms
in their musical household. Thursday, March 13, 2008, 2:13-2:27 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gordon Hunt plays
Domenico Zipoli (Listen) CD, YouTube
Elevazione "Ascension" (1716)

The shepherd boy tends
his sheep feeling high when
he sees the evening star.

Friday, March 14, 2008, 1:30-1:48 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Stephen Kovacevich plays
Johannes Brahms, (Listen), CD, YouTube, (1873)
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a

Triumphant march for
coronation or wedding
celebrating joy! Friday, March 14, 2008, 2:08-2:16 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gordon Hunt plays
Franz Schubert (Listen), CD, YouTube
Serenade (1826)

Strings that touch the soul—
filled with a sense of sadness
and silent stillness.

Friday, March 14, 2008, 7:40-9:50 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
James Stewart & Kim Novak in
Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958)

Graphics of Saul Bass and
music of Bernard Herrmann
enhanced this great film. Friday, March 14, 2008, 10:00-11:45 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Henry Fonda & Vera Miles in
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" (1957)

Police erred and jailed
an innocent man making
his life into hell.

Saturday, March 15, 2008, 11:54 am-12:04 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays
Frederic Chopin, (Listen), CD, YouTube, (1833)
Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18

Chopin's Valse Brillante
shines like a star, fine tuned
for galactic dancing. Saturday, March 15, 2008, 12:11-12:21 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Carlos Kleiber conducts
Johann Strauss, Jr. (Listen) CD, YouTube
Accelerationen Op. 234 (1860)

Einsteinian physics
could account for Dante's
accelerating spheres.

Sunday, March 16, 2008, 11:50-11:57 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach
(Listen), CD, Text, Discussions,
Cantata #85 (1725)

So much of God's love
pervades the universe
which we cannot see. Sunday, March 16, 2008, 12:53-12:59 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(Listen) CD, YouTube
Sleeping Beauty: Rose Adagio, Op. 66a (1889)

The sea is sleeping—
the wind stirs up calm waves
into a raging storm.

Sunday, March 16, 2008, 9:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Dick Cavett's Blog (NY Times, March 14, 2008)
Uncommoner Than Thou: Buckley, Part Two
Buckley loved Cavett's French painters pun
on Shakespeare's Hamlet I.ii.446 (web page)

More in Seurat than in Ingres—
Horatio to Hamlet:
more in sorrow than in anger. Sunday, March 16, 2008, 10:00-11:50 pm
Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Flicks:
Tim Burton directs "Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" (2007)
starring Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter.
Film based on Stephen Sondheim's play

Barber and baker—
partners in crime cooking up
victims in her pies.

Monday, March 17, 2008, 12:30-12:34 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Lü Wencheng,
Autumn Moon Over the Calm Lake (1930)
(Listen), CD

Beautiful music
sketching lovely scenery
of moon over lake. Monday, March 17, 2008, 10:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
I celebrate Saint Patrick's Day reading
Lorca's Somnambule Ballad (1924)

Green wind. Green branches.
Green, how much I want you green.
Green stars of white frost...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 11:03-11:17 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Schubert
Symphony #6 "Little C Major" (1818)
(Listen), CD

Lovers hand in hand
stroll slowly around the town
just window shopping. Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 11:36-11:42 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F, BWV1047 (1718)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Horse and carriage ride
through the countryside smelling
the flowers in bloom.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:18-12:23 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Dances, Op. 20 (1876)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

The swans are dancing
to the song of farewell
as the soul soars above. Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 1:59-2:02 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ren Guang
Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon (c. 1950)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Silver clouds chasing
the moon as the sky bursts
into song of spring.

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 2:35 am
Palm Drive: As I rush for the 2:39 am
Bus #22, Romero, a Stanford janitor picks
me up hitchhiking & drives me home.

Romeo's star guides
Dante in heaven— Now
Romero drives me home. Thursday, March 20, 2008, 12:12 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Diane Nicolini's trivia quiz
Crayola changed the names of crayon colors
only three times. What are the colors?

Prussian blue to Midnight Blue,
Indian red to Chestnut,
Flesh to Peach.

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 12-21-12:37 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (1893)
(Listen), CD, YouTube
Carnegie Hall: Listening Adventure

Military march
rallying the troops forward
in the battlefield. Thursday, March 20, 2008, 2:07-2:11 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joshua Bell plays Gluck,
Orfeo: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (1762)
(Listen), CD, YouTube
Recalling Dante's "Paradiso" X.81, X.102

Dante sings of saints
dancing in a circle like
a wreath of pure light.

Friday, March 21, 2008, 1:22 am
Mountain View: Seeing halo around
Full Moon, 18:40 UT (10:40 am PST)
Maple Sugar Moon, Worm Moon, Crow Moon

Maple Sugar Moon
shines brightly over me
on this first day of spring. Friday, March 21, 2008, 12:06-12:15 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto #3 in F, BWV1048 (1718)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Daughter's Dad just died—
he loved Bach's music, so she
requested this piece.

Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:35-9:55 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Cary Grant & Eva Maria Saint in
Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (1959)

Romance, adventure,
suspense, North by Northwest—
Hitchcock at his best! Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:35-9:55 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Cary Grant & Eva Maria Saint in
Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (1959)

Thornhill trapped by thugs
at auction— bids like he's mad
so police could arrest him.

Friday, March 21, 2008, 10:05-11:45 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
John Forsythe & Shirley MacLaine in
Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry" (1955)

They all admit to
be the killer— this is
Hitchcock's black comedy. Friday, March 21, 2008, 10:05-11:45 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
John Forsythe & Shirley MacLaine in
Hitchcock's "The Trouble with Harry" (1955)

Painter asks not for
millions but a gift for each
of his village friends.

Saturday, March 22, 2008, 3:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Receiving a surprise joyful email

Cosmos full of light—
Joy in abundance as stars
dance with outstretched joy! Saturday, March 22, 2008, 3:00 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Receiving a surprise joyful email

Stir in such a need—
such a tender joy is in
her— richest in joy!

Saturday, March 22, 2008, 3:30 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Reading "Wisdom of the Ages, for Now Anyway"
about spiritual teacher & writer Eckhart Tolle
(New York Times, March 23, 2008)

Tolle named himself
Eckhart— the German sage
who lived always in the now. Saturday, March 22, 2008, 4:30 pm
Green Library, Stanford University
Hitchcock's title "North by Northwest" may be
from Hamlet's "I am but mad north-north-west" (Shakespeare, Hamlet, II.2.1460 )

North by Northwest— not
the airline or Mount Rushmore
but quote from Hamlet.

Sunday, March 23, 2008, 11:38-11:46 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
Concerto in E, Op. 6 #11 (1735)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Christ has arisen!
Noli me tangere—
full of astral light! Sunday, March 23, 2008, 11:46-11:52 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Frederic Chopin,
Nocturne #18 in E, Op. 62 #2 (1846)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Chopin's lovely tunes
played on this Easter Sunday
wakes me up to Spring!

Sunday, March 23, 2008, 12:12-12:26 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Serenade to Music (1938)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Rachmaninoff wept
in the audience when this
Serenade was played. Sunday, March 23, 2008, 12:46-12:55 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Antonio Vivaldi,
Four Seasons: 'Winter', Op. 8 #4 (1725)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Winter is over—
Christ out from the dark cave
and Spring in full blossom.

Sunday, March 23, 2008, 2:43 pm
Easter hike: Pulgas Ridge, San Carlos
Cordelleras Trail: Vinca (Periwinkle)

Field of blue vinca—
five-petalled stars blooming
on Easter Sunday hike. Sunday, March 23, 2008, 2:56 pm
Easter hike: Pulgas Ridge, San Carlos
Cordelleras Trail: California Live Oak

Gnarling oak branching
in all directions— such is
the path of our lives.

Sunday, March 23, 2008, 3:05 pm
Easter hike: Pulgas Ridge, San Carlos
Dusky-footed Woodrat Trail: Trilliums

Three leaves, three petals,
Trilliums all in bloom—
Song of the Trinity. Sunday, March 23, 2008, 3:18 pm
Easter hike: Pulgas Ridge, San Carlos
Dusky-footed Woodrat Trail: Hound's Tongue

Hound's Tongue with blue flowers
blooming and bees flocking
for nectar and honey.

Sunday, March 23, 2008, 3:35 pm
Easter hike: Pulgas Ridge, San Carlos
Dusky-footed Woodrat Trail: Indian Warriors
(Pedicularis densiflora) on deer trail to creek

Indian Warriors with
leaves like fern and flowers
like headdress of braves. Sunday, March 23, 2008, 3:42 pm
Easter hike: Pulgas Ridge, San Carlos
Dusky-footed Woodrat Trail: Ceanothus
aka California Lilac (blue)

California Lilacs
or Ceanothus bloom
in cluster balls of blue.

Monday, March 24, 2008, 12:48-1:02 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Midori plays Max Bruch,
Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 (1880)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Sprightly fantasy—
"Hey Tuttie Tatie" of Burns
for Sarasate. Monday, March 24, 2008, 2:00-3:30 pm
Mountain View, Friend takes me
grocery shopping at Long's
Milk Pail, Wal-Mart, Safeway

Apricot preserve,
alfafa sprouts, red grapes,
catsup, peas, orange juice.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 10:20-10:28 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Sarah Chang
plays Antonio Vivaldi,
Four Seasons: "Spring" Op.8 #1 (1725)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

More songs about spring
than the other seasons— Why?
Time to be in love. Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 10:36-10:47 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Jon Nakamatsu
plays Frederic Chopin,
Polonaise in Ab, Op. 53 "Heroic" (1842)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Chopin's upbeat tunes
bring out the hero in us
to act with courage.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 10:44-10:48 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Joseph Silverstein plays
Clara Wieck Schumann, (Listen), CD
Romance #3 in B-Flat, Op. 22 (1853)

Clara was a muse
for Schumann & Brahms while
making lovely music. Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 11:20-11:28 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Ole Kristian Ruud
conducts Nino Rota, CD
Symphony #2 in F major, Op. 38 (1943)

Nino Rota's tunes
so tied with Fellini's films
like Hermann with Hitchock.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 12:05-12:20 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: François-René Duchable
plays Ludwig van Beethoven, (Listen), CD
Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61a
(arranged by Beethoven for piano) (1806)

Beethoven died today
in 1827 but
his music lives on. Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 7:30-9:00 pm
East-West Bookstore, Mountain View
Steve Georgiou, talk on his second book:
"Mystic Street: Meditations on a Spiritual Path"
Interview, Talk: "Way of the Dreamcatcher"

So lucky to find
Robert Lax in Patmos
to be his mentor.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 7:30-9:00 pm
East-West Bookstore, Mountain View
Steve Georgiou, talk on his second book:
"Mystic Street: Meditations on a Spiritual Path"
Interview, Talk: "Way of the Dreamcatcher"

There's a Mystic Street
in Berkeley and within us—
Find, go forth to give. Thursday, March 27, 2008, 10:49-11:00 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Erich Kunzel
conducts Giuseppe Verdi,
Aida: Triumphal Scene (1871)
(Listen), CD YouTube

Glory to Egypt,
to Isis, our goddess as
troops march in triumph.

Friday, March 28, 2008, 10:41-10:47 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Franz Joseph Haydn (1793)
String Quartet #59 in G minor, Op. 74 #3 "Rider"
(Listen), CD (* Mizar & Alcor in the Big Dipper *)

Haydn's "Rider" quartet
takes me to the binary
star— Horse and Rider. Friday, March 28, 2008, 10:47-10:56 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Heitor Villa-Lobos,
The Little Train of the Caipira (1930)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

The Little Train huffs
and puffs to the mountaintop—
Little Engine that Could.

Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:00-8:10 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Guido Deiro in Vitaphone film
"World's Foremost Piano-Accordionist" (1928)

Rhapsodic waltz tunes
wax out from his piano
accordion for dancing. Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:10-8:20 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy in
Vitaphone #947 "The Operation" (1930)

Ventriloquist doctor
operates on his dummy
who loves his nurse.

Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:40-10:00 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill,
Betty Compson & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in
George Fitzmaurice's "The Barker" (1928)

The Barker packs them
in the tent to see hula
girl sway away their eyes. Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:40-10:00 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill,
Betty Compson & Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in
George Fitzmaurice's "The Barker" (1928)

Circus girls seduce
the barker's son in revenge
for his lack of love.

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 12:00-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
Art Bell interviews Prof. Michio Kaku
"Physics of the Impossible"
(* Plato, "Republic" II.359 *)

Possible to make
invisible man— Plato's
gold ring of Gyges. Saturday, March 29, 2008, 12:00-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
Art Bell interviews Prof. Michio Kaku
"Physics of the Impossible"
(Metamaterial cylinder for invisible shield)

Invisible man
can't see so need to have
floating eyes in space.

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 12:00-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
Art Bell interviews Prof. Michio Kaku
"Physics of the Impossible" (Richard Feynmann's
(1965 Nobel Prize on electrodynamics)

Anti-matter goes
back in time— it's possible
to see the future. Saturday, March 29, 2008, 12:00-4:00 am
KSFO 560 AM: Coast-to-Coast AM
Art Bell interviews Prof. Michio Kaku
"Physics of the Impossible" (Supernova burst)
(WR-104 in Sagittarius 8000 light-years away)

Death Star's gamma rays
pointing at earth may wipe us
out one of these days.

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 9:53-10:02 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Patrick Doyle,
Violin Romance from "As You Like It" (2006)
(Listen), CD (* protein string of amino acids *)

Violin strings tug our
hearts for we're made of
strings of amino acids. Saturday, March 29, 2008, 10:02-10:12 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D, BWV1050
(Listen), CD, YouTube (1721)

Bach's never-ending brook
brings us to the sea
of oceanic rapture.

Sunday, March 30, 2008, 11:10-11:15 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Yundi Li plays
Franz Liszt
"Liebestraum for Piano #3" (1850)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

From Liszt's fingers come
romance music to delight
the hearts of lovers. Sunday, March 30, 2008, 12:08-12:13 pm
KDFC 102.1 FM: Erich Kunzel conducts Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" K. 525 (1787)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Little night music
summons the elves and gnomes
to dance into your dreams.

Sunday, March 30, 2008, 1:45 pm
Skylawn Memorial Park, San Mateo
Placed ginkgo leaves & sweetgum star
leaf at Dad and Mom's grave site.

Dad & Mom— you are
the flowers in my heart
still blooming with fragrance. Sunday, March 30, 2008, 1:50 pm
Skylawn Memorial Park, San Mateo
Read poems "Sunday at Skylawn"
& "Meeting Goethe at Heidelberg"

Dad & Mom— thank you
for the beautiful moments
you gave to my life.

Sunday, March 30, 2008, 2:25 pm
Skylawn Memorial Park, San Mateo
Leaning Cypress Tree with spiral
trunk facing the Pacific Ocean.

Leaning Cypress Tree—
Did the wind twist you
this way or did DNA? Sunday, March 30, 2008, 4:00-6:00 pm
Hometown Buffet, Santa Clara
Cousin Scott treats me and friend
for dinner at Hometown Buffet

Fish fillet, fried rice,
breaded shrimp, seafood salad,
pudding and cheese cake.

Monday, March 31, 2008, 10:40-10:45 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Gil Shaham plays
Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: "Winter" Op. 8, #4
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Pizzicato tunes—
snowflakes fall one by one
inspiring my first poem. Monday, March 31, 2008, 10:50-10:59 am
KDFC 102.1 FM: Erich Kunzel conducts
Giacomo Puccini,
Turandot: Nessun Dorma (1926)
(Listen), CD, YouTube

Aria of longing—
yearning for one's love.
Dante understood this well.

Monday, March 31, 2008, 7:30-9:20 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Anthony Perkins & Janet Leigh in
Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1960)

Bernard Hermann's score
with screeching violins made
the death scenes scarier. Monday, March 31, 2008, 9:30-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto,
Tippi Hedren & Rod Taylor in
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963)

Bodega Bay birds
blitz the town— crows & gulls
all dive in for the kill.