the radio static of a blank station the moment raindrops hit surfaces the gliding of wooden sliding doors the tick-tock of the clock on the wall the sounds of leaves flying in the wind the period of time a guitar is being tuned the mellow piano scale of moonlight sonata the echoes of footsteps in an empty hallway the breathing of a newborn and a dying man the far-off engine roars of a car on a highway the supersonics of an airplane flying overhead the crashing of tidal waves upon the breakwater the ****** of chimes or frozen icicles on a cold day the scrape of my pencil on paper as i draw and write the scratchy noise after a vinyl record finishes to play the ruffle of bedsheets when someone is restless in bed the bristle of hair when mothers tousle their children's hair *his voice
this poem's alternate title is "Wistful Sounds".
w stands for wistful and wabi s stands for sounds and sabi
wabi-sabi: the philosophy and design principle which appreciates the aging and decay (due to time and weathering) of an object, idea, or even a person. It is said that wabi-sabi is the feeling that stirs a wistful, sad melancholy close enough to spiritual longing.