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Other Musical Instruments
Listen to the hum;
it's the music of "white noise."
Let its song sooth you...
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Small All White in the Forest)
"I am no barrier to its sun; the light and I are as one!"
My Poetic Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: This poem was inspired by the television special "Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments" along with the album of the same name which were both broadcast and released in 1973 and, specifically, by the song "The World Is A Concerto / Make Your Own Kind Of Music" performed by Barbra Streisand! (Please see the hyperlink below for the video.)
And this poem is also my way of paying homage to "white noise," which is "noise containing many frequencies with equal intensities" and, specifically, "television white noise."
You see, way back in the day—long before 24 hour television broadcasts, cable television, satellite television and, now, internet television—white noise was the kind of sound that televisions used make if you turned them on when they weren't broadcasting any shows, which used to happen sometime after midnight until early in the morning! You see, the only television stations that used to exist back then—which were ABC, CBS and NBC in addition to some PBS stations—used to stop broadcasting from after midnight until the early morning shows came on.
And I used to listen to television static sometimes when I was younger and couldn't sleep! So, I would turn on the television in the living room and listen to the "hum" of the white noise, which would sooth me, and it helped me to fall asleep on the living room couch. (Please see the hyperlink below for the video.)
Just so you know, I revised this poem, as I often do with my writing! And I changed how this poem was written when I was editing all of my blog posts that are written as "Haiku-style" poems. So, I wanted to show you how this poem used to be written, before I revised it as above.
And it used to be written like this:
Other Musical Instruments
Listen to the hum,
which is the song of "white noise."
Let its song sooth you...
Thus, I revised this poem to be written as it is above.
And this poem was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
Watch "The World Is A Concerto/ Make Your Own Kind Of Music · Barbra Streisand" on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/sBvH3vbjiu8
Watch "TV Static Noise For Smartphone | For sleeping, studying | 8Hours" on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ubFq-wV3Eic?si=HCRBbMSAMf4DZ8vH
"Noise (video)" from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia—which is funded primarily through donations from millions of individuals around the world, including this blogger (I make a totally affordable monthly donation):
"Noise, commonly known as static, white noise or static noise, in analog video and television, is a random dot pixel or snow pattern of static displayed when there is no transmission signal or being weak. The random pixel pattern is obtained by the antenna receiver of television sets, flat screen televisions, radio antenna, smart television sets, CRT televisions, VHS tapes and other display devices. The random pixel pattern is superimposed on the picture or the television screen, being visible as a random flicker of 'dots', 'zig-zags', 'macro' or 'snow', is the result of electronic noise and radiated electromagnetic noise accidentally picked up by the antenna like air or cable. This effect is most commonly seen with analog TV sets, blank VHS tapes, or other display devices."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_(video)#:~:text=Noise%2C%20commonly%20known%20as%20static,transmission%20signal%20or%20being%20weak.
This "Small All White in the Forest" Post No. 099 was edited on July 12th, 2024.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
My poems that are Haiku in their style—within which one stanza is composed of three lines, where each line has words containing five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables, respectively—are a lot more like Senryū poems in that the topic of these poems is typically about people, rather than the topic of these poems being about nature, as is usually the case in classic Haiku poems. And that is why I call these types of poems "Haiku-style." –Paul Whiting [September 19th, 2023]
