Echoes in the Air: A poem for Microphone Tests
By Robbie Ferguson, 2024.

To be read dynamically, with varying cadence, volume and dynamics, as driven by the words I’ve written.

Feel free to use my poem in your tests, projects and videos. Please simply credit me in whatever way is appropriate to the medium, such as a link in your video description, or mention in your credit roll.

I start with a whisper, soft as a breath,
A flicker, a heartbeat, as quiet as death.
Then rising, it gathers, a murmur, a tone,
Building like thunder, no longer alone.

Words shape from silence, each sound taking flight,
Soft in the shadows, then bright as the light.
I call out, then echo, like waves on the shore—
Louder, then softer, and softer once more.

The sound falls to stillness, then fades to the deep—
A voice, once awakened, now settling to sleep.