Beethoven's Fifth Sonnet


Beethoven's Fifth Symphony



Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
most famous four notes in music
wisk us up up to divinity
even if we're not a mystic.

From Upanishads, he was inspired
to paste quotes up on his wall—
his soul was stirred and fired
that "Brahma was One and All".

Allegro con brio opens our mind—
like no other work of nature or art.
There is no greater treasure we'll find
that is more noble & true in our heart.

Those four notes dun dun dun DUN!—
Wake up! Wake up! Life has begun!


    — Peter Y. Chou
         Mountain View, 12-12-2023