Noise And Sound Poem by Francis Duggan

Girls will be girls and boys will be boys
And where there are crowds of people there is lots of noise
We are the noise makers of the twenty first century
And this includes you amongst others and me
Suppose there is a big difference between noise and sound
For one always seems absent when the other is around
As if they do not like each other and cannot agree
At least anyhow this is how it seems to be
In his great poem 'We Are The Music Makers' Arthur O Shaughnessy said
But where noise does abound music does seem dead
They are very different would you not agree
One does seem quite cluttered the other has harmony
And in a World of billions of men and women and girls and boys
Where crowds of people assemble there is bound to be noise.