Auld Lang Syne

Auld Lang Syne
orchestration by Suchoon Mo

http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/suchoon6

Santa Claus

Distant Roar Of Santa Claus

cold night
gory night
the wind is blowing
the police car siren is wailing
the moon is freezing
and crazed tumble weeds are fleeing
in all directions
in terror of Santa Claus's distant roar
Ho Ho Ho!

the salvation army bell
made in china
rings a dire warning in chinese
Ding Ding Ding!

-Suchoon Mo -

Only One Desire

Only One Desire

I used to have two desires
then you came along
and I fell in love with you

now I need only one desire
nothing more
would you like to have the other one?

- Suchoon Mo -

Enlightenment

Enlightenment

the earth used to be flat
not any more

her breasts used to be flat
not any more

- Suchoon Mo -

Winter Elegy

Caspar David Friedrich


Winter Elegy
by Suchoon Mo
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/winter-elegy

Harvest Moon Dance

photobucket - kittyara1216


Harvest Moon Dance
by Suchoon Mo

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/harvest-moon-dance

Your Beginning And My End

Your Beginning And My End
by Suchoon Mo

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/your-beginning-and-my-end

Your Beginning and My End

the beginning with no end
you say your love for me is forever
your love is eternal
there is no end

the end with no beginning
I say my love for you is not forever
my love is not eternal
there is no beginning

as your music begins
my music ends
as your passion burns
my passion is extinguished
as you are born and reborn
I leave the cycle of life
and as you become a goddess
I shall be no more

On Self

On Self
http://www.umaine.edu/jmb/archives/volume11/11_1_1990winter.html#abstract3

On Reversal of Temporality of Human Cognition and Dialectical Self

Suchoon S. Mo, University of Southern Colorado
The Journal of Mind and Behavior , Winter 1990, Vol. 11, No. 1, Pages 37-46 ISSN 0271-0137

In terms of temporality of logic, the relation between "before" and "after" is an inverse relation, as is the relation between intension and extension. Reversal of temporality of human cognition is accompanied by corresponding reversal between intension and extension. Such reversal is based on lateral reversal of brain hemisphere locus of time information. A similar inverse relation exists between self as subject and self as object. Extreme objectification of self is associated with brain hemisphere lateral reversal of time information, indicating that subject-object reversal is similar in nature to reversal of temporality of cognition. Dialectical nature of self is based on contradiction between self as subject and self as object. Synthesis arising from such contradiction may be regarded as reality of self.
Requests for reprints should be sent to Suchoon S. Mo, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Southern Colorado, Pueblo, Colorado 81001.

The Frozen Lake

The Frozen Lake

by this frozen lake
now I stand

their moaning voices
entombed in its depth
are silent

I must leave them here
and I must be gone
to a place far away
where destiny has no destination



The Frozen Lake
by Suchoon Mo

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/the-frozen-lake?utm_campaign=autoshare&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2F

Music

Music

Meadowland
- Russian -
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/meadowland

House Of The Rising Sun
- British -
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/house-of-the-rising-sun

Chuperlika
- Macedonian -
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/chuperlika


A Tree On The Beach
- Suchoon Mo -
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/a-tree-on-the-beach

Seek And You Shall Find

Seek And You Shall Find

A Zen master is sick. He is dying. A young disciple approaches him.

Disciple: Before you die, please answer my question.
Master: What is it?
Disciple: What is the meaning of life?
Master; Life is like a river.

The disciple retreats to his chamber and contemplates. Next day, he approaches the master again.

Disciple: Master, I have contemplated on your answer all night long last night. But I still do not understand.
Master: You don't like my answer? All right, then. Life is not like a river.

The Zen master died.
Seek and your shall find

Una Furtiva Lagrima
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/una-furtiva-lagrima

Freedom of Science

Freedom Is Not Free

As with literary magazines, more and more scientific journals are going online. Scientific researchers usually must bear the cost of publication which runs to hundreds and often thousands of dollars. When you submit a paper for publication, it goes through peer review process which may take a few months to a year or so. Then the e...ditor may request modification or re-write. By the time the paper is published, it may be obsolete. Then the cost of reading. A scientific journal is not cheap, and one cannot subscribe to only a few. Or one has to go to a libraray and hunt for any articile of interest. A researcher's time is quite precious, and he or she may as well send off a poorly paid assistant, usually foreigners on temporary visa, to the library on a thankless salvage mission. Or, just outsource the entire scientific research to foreign countries and go to Wall Street to gamble and make money. Online scientific journals are one reaction to this state of stupidity and insanity.

Will America maintain the cutting edge in science and technology. I don't think so. Freedom of speech. They say freedom is not free. Unfortunate.

http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Publications/Journals/Free_Online_Journals/

alphabet

Japanese Alphabet Song

Although its scent still lingers on
the form of a flower has scattered away
For whom will the glory of this world remain unchanged?
Arriving today at the yonder side
of the deep mountains of evanescent existence
We shall never allow ourselves to drift away
intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha

Japanese have 50 phonetic scripts. A Buddhist monk composed a verse in which each script occurs only once.

Every Japanese elementary school child knows this verse. No wonder it is so hard to christianize them.

They also have a beautiful "number song." A very effective device to teach pre-schoolers how to count.

The current uproar about the sad state of American math and science education may be the very cause of the educational problem facing America. Humanize math and science education. at earliest stage of development.

Solomon And Nansen

Solomon And Nansen

Solomon did not cut
a child in half
and they say he was wise

Nansen did cut
a cat in half
and they say he was wise

Solomon and Nansen
Near East and Far East
they shall never meet

Nansen saw the monks of the eastern and western halls fighting over a cat. He seized the cat and told the monks: 'If any of you say a good word, you can save the cat.'No one answered. So Nansen boldly cut the cat in two pieces.

That evening Joshu returned and Nansen told him about this. Joshu removed his sandals and, placing them on his head, walked out.

Nansen said: 'If you had been there, you could have saved the cat.'



Mumon's Comment: Why did Joshu put his sandals on his head? If anyone answers this question, he will understand exactly how Nansen enforced the edict. If not, he should watch his own head.

- Mumonkan

Shut Up

Shut Up!

upon the roof of a funeral home
a little bird sings

hey you
hey you
hey you you you

shut up!
a mortician says
to a corpse

Deep And Meaningful

Deep And Meaningful
- to Bernard Shaw -


she seeks a man who is profound
deep and meaningful

she found a profound man
fell in love deep and meaningful

it was a profound awakening
within deep and meaningful

she is pregnant
deep and meaningful

she seeks no more

No Rain

No Rain

Rain in North Carolina? You are lucky. No rain here, in the brown scorched prairie. Hot. Dry. Jack rabbits are on rampage, doing war dance. They have joined Tea Party recently, and they are waving their proud ears. Nature is in Freudian anal fixation, and so is the national economy. As the sun goes down, the prime time erectile dysfunction serenades a horde of Homeric thirsty Greeks demonstrating with their tragic mouths wide open. No rain. No shit.

Poetry Of Maxwell's Demon

Poetry Of Maxwell's Demon

So-called "Maxwell's Demond" has been kicked around in physics, philosophy, engineering and pop literature for years. Yet, I have been unable to find any poet who is reckless en0ough to tackle with that elusive demon, although some fiction writers have been chasing that demon. Here is an over-view article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

The fundamental problem is that one is tempted to prove that the second law of thermodynamics is false by assuming that it is true - a conventional method of asiomatic proof. As Russell says, there is no logical way of defining logic.

"Greenhouse Effect" is a consequence of the civilization based on technology of entropy. And search for "alternative energy" is in itself entropical. In terms of economics, consumption is entropical. The gate-keeper of that consumption is a Maxwell's Demon.

Young Eliot

Young Eliot

young TS Eliot stood on the bank of the Mississippi
and saw Samuel Clemmens pee
from the deck of a river boat

do I dare!
he exclaimed
and took off to England

young TS Eliot stood on the bank of the Thames
and he mumbled
do I dare?

he became very famous
he peed

In An Abandoned Temple

Violin Sonata in E Minor, from Flute Sonata 5, JS Bach
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/bach-flute-sonata-5



In An Abandoned Temple

I come here to pray
in an abandoned temple
seekers are long gone

the road stops here
no reason to look back


on a dusty stool
a fly is still and serene
a shaft of sun light

I sit by the fly
just two of us


the end of the long road
why am I holding a gun
aiming at nothing?

I seek no answer
there is no need


no end to turmoil
being awake in silence
stench of the temple

life and death are alike
soul is empty


a grave yard outside
flowers and grass are all dead
so are the tomb stones

here I am to stay
and rest



Taj Mahal Review, volume 5, issue 1, June 2006

NB: One voice speaking in two voices, or vice versa, in Renga format.

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home
- Song of Subprime Mortgage -

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/home-sweet-home

Sin

Sin

whenever she sings
she omits "g"
she sins



A Non-Euclidean Rattle Snake

beware
the shortest distance
between the head and the tail
of a rattle snake
is not a straight line



"d"

when she met david and married him
she began to stutter at every "d"

d-d-d-david
d-d-d-damn you!

Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party

the Americans dumped tea in the sea
the Brits dumped oil in the sea
a revenge
The Tea Party is singing.
The Brits are listening.

Women and Color

For most people, the retina contains 3 color receptors. But, for very few, there are 4 color receptors. Who are they? They are all women. What are the implications in terms of human evolution?

Wisdom of Fiddler Crab

Remove the dominant (larger, right) claw of a "right - handed" male fiddler crab. Then, it will grow a feeding (smaller) claw, and the left claw will become larger and dominant. A male fiddler crab fights and impresses females with the dominant claw. When a right- handed fiddler crab loses a fight, it becomes a left-handed fighter.

Are men like fiddler crabs, in some way or others? Why is human evolution so stubbornly right-handed?

Human Evolution of Choking on Food

Eating and Talking

Human evolution of language brought about the unwelcome consequence of choking on food while talking and eating at the same time. The primary function of mouth used to be that of eating. Now its primary function appears to be that of talking, to others or to one's self. So, eating and talking have become mutually antagonistic. Just imagine a performance poet reciting and eating fried chicken at the same time. Or, more metaphorically, reciting, gesturing, making face and eating Louisiana shrimp contaminated by BP oil spill, at the same time.



Her Lips

she has pretty lips
rosy and soft

she doesn't use them
primarily to kiss
me or anybody else
or to whistle
at a passing man

she uses them
primarily to nibble
a chicken leg
while talking
at the same time

-Spillway Review, July 2005-

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2340

A Place Called Christmas Hill

A Place Called Christmas Hill
- Korean War Memorial -
by Suchoon Mo

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/a-place-called-christmas-hill


Christmas Hill was located in the sector in North Korea known as "Punch Bowl." Korean Army 7th Infantry Division, 5th Regiment, fought over Christmas Hill against the Chinese Army. The regiment was supported by 623rd Field Artillery Battalion, Kentucky National Guard, US Army.

Christmas Hill
War Museum, Seoul, Korea

Una Furtiva Lagrima

Una Furtiva Lagrima
by Doonizetti


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=365TsJBOeXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDwm_NzLleA&feature=watch_response
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/una-furtiva-lagrima


- away from screaming to singing -





Judith Hoffman





Homer Winslow

Macedonian Music

Chuperlike
- Macedonian music -

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/chuperlika

BP and Jesus

The Pelican

Legend has it that the pelican, a sea bird, gets angry with its young and killed them. It then so regrets its action that it tears its own breast with its beak, and its blood brings its young back to life. The pelican is seen to represent the sacrifice of Christ, whose blood is shed to so that all may participate in his risen life, and especially those who drink his blood (wine) in Communion.

- John Bowker. World Religion. DK Publishing, 1997 -


BP oil spill is smearing the pelican
BP is anointing Jesus with black oil

bath the pelican
bath Jesus
John the Baptist
where are you?


boston.com

English Ballad

House Of The Rising Sun
- English Ballad -

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/house-of-the-rising-sun

Going Home

Going Home
Homage to Santoka

I danced with a girl
she had three legs and danced well
I was quite drunk then

when she goes to church
with the red shoes upon her head
a miracle will happen

she undresses
like an onion peeling itself
I have tears in my eyes

earth worms underground
are you happy there?

I spread my arms
she spreads her legs
martial art

saint valentine's day
two sparrows are not mating

my mind is empty
my bladder is full

oh I am sorry
you were playing a tuba
I didn't know

I can't eat bacon
the soprano is screaming
like a dying pig

so many lights on the street
I lost my shadow

the undertaker
he dumped the deceased in the pit
took the casket home

a frog came to the door
it was a jehovah's witness
reborn

in a dense fog
I drove past an abandoned house
it was my home

- Journal Of Truth And Consequence -

Wild Flowers

Wild Flower

spring rain came and went
over the sagebrush prairie
suddenly wild flowers
here there and everywhere
a silent chorus
of white yellow violet and pink


http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/violin-concerto-in-d-minor

A Yellow Bird (of Bergen-Belsen)

A Yellow Bird

a yellow bird
a yellow bird from Bergen-Belsen
it is singing

a yellow bird
it has no voice
it is singing

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/a-yellow-bird

Anna Karenina and Privatization of Misery

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Jared Diamond arrives at his principle of domestication of animals (Anna Karenina Principle) by alluding to what Tolstoy said in his "Anna Karenina." But Diamond may be ignoring a very existential core of what Tolstoy said. What Tolstoy is saying is the "delusion" of being uniquely alone or being "self" in one's misery. Pain is very uniquely personal. t is privatized. In a way, pain is "I." Happiness is not something to do with "I." The statement "I am happy" is rather superficial, because when one is happy, one does not worry about if he himself or someone else is happy. Happiness is universal. Tolstoy is basically transplanting Buddhist existentialism into Christianity. Rightfully, therefore, he was excommunicated from the Orthdox Church. Suffering (unsatisfactoriness) is universal which is characterized by the delusion of personal suffering. Anna Karenina's misery is universal. The tragedy arises because of attributing such universality to uniquely personal self.

This way of looking at Anna Karenia opens a new perspective on current controvesry of health care reform.

Foot Prints

a man and a woman
shoulder to shoulder
hand in hand
walk on the autumn beach
his foot prints being left behind him
her foot prints following her

The Winter Beach
by Suchoon Mo
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/the-winter-beach

Destiny And Destination

1.

I have no inspiration
it has expired

I used to have a theory
about something
or something else
it drifted away

I have no need of enlightenment
or awakening
or nirvana

wisdom is a fraud
once spoken or understood
or practiced


2.

a stray dog
or a stray woman
or a stray shadow
may follow me
my destiny
has no destination
my destination
has no destiny


3.

time is not what
time is when
now is now
now is just now
one day passes one day per day
one second passes one second per second
one day is just one day
one second is just one second
time is not speed limit


4.

I am here and now
that does make no difference
I am not here and not now
that does make no sense
ultimate truth is not true

tomorrow and yesterday
they may dance together
until today is gone
or will never come


5.

I am indifferent
to comedy or tragedy
life is neither a drama nor an opera
I have no need of stage


6.

I am real



- Dissident Editions -

For A Place Unknown

a requiem
is my serenade
with no words

rusted machine guns
buried mines
white siberian cranes
in the demilitarized zone
they are mute

deep in the mountains
far in time gone by

memory does not age
it only fades away
from the place once I knew
for a place unknown

Curtain Call

I love her
I adore her
the opera singer

after all that screaming and howling
about her miserable love affair
she bows and smiles beautifully
during the curtain call
and she even has herniated spinal disk

Opera

such a great opera
Don Jose killed Carmen
many times

a soprano in cold shower
is she singing
or screaming?

everyone is going to an opera
I am going to a funeral
everyone will be moved and touched
so shall I
everybody will be clapping hands
so shall I

you are allowed to yell
bravo!
in an opera house
because she died singing
but you are not allowed to yell
bravo!
in a funeral home
just because she died singing

when the soprano sings an aria
do not sing along
because
her voice will climb to the high C note
sooner or later
and you can only croak
like a frog

in this silent holy night
three drunkards sing
a song of silent holy night

in an empty theater
the stage is set
for a mute tragedy
of chorus singers
who are mute
on the stage

- Journal Of Truth And Consequence -

Elegy Of Summer Night

Elegy Of Summer Night
by Suchoon Mo

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/elegy-of-summer-night

Minuet

Minuet in G Minor
by Suchoon Mo

http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/minuet

Zen Poem

By A Perfumed Pond

he was meditating
by a perfumed pond
two lotus flowers
stuck in his nostrils

he sneezed
two herons flew away
each with a lotus flower
in its beak


Butterfly
- children's song -
by Suchoon Mo
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/butterfly

Time and Being

Your Beginning And My End

you say your love for me is forever
your love is eternal
thee is no end

I say my love for you is not forever
my love is not eternal
there is no begining

the beginning of your music
is the end of my music
the beginning of your passion
is the end of my passion
your resurrection
is my extinction

and when you become a goddess
I shall leave the cycle of life
and be no more


Largo in G Minor
by Suchoon Mo
http://soundcloud.com/graybluegreen/largo-in-g-minor

Truth

Truth

you have
the front end
and the rear end

the front end
speaks untruth

the rear end
blows out truth

A Miracle

A Miracle


when a dog runs backward
it is god
when a dog smiles
it is a miracle

when a dog runs backward smiling
you'd better start praying
or stop drinking



- Mad Hatter's Rreview, issue 6, 2006 -

Mountain Pass

Mountain Pass
by Suchoon Mo

http://snd.sc/b2rjtt via #soundcloud