Universal Communication Comments

There are no easy solutions you offer in this poem. That is your integrity as a poet shining through the disappointment of being unable to identify an example of UNIVERSAL COMMUNICATION. Music being non-verbal at least overcomes some problems. But if you have ever heard the pentatonic scale in Chinese music in contrast to our western diatonic.chromatic scale, you confront the problem with music as localized in its nature. On the bright side, I've read that every December all over JAPAN audiences take in performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with its ODE TO JOY. They have made this most western of musical forms their own! Bravo, Ludwig van!