PhotoPlay Gallery: Sounds of Your Season

In December, our PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry prompts focused on the sounds of the season.

Our PhotoPlay gallery (below) is a festive collection of the sounds of your Christmas that has left us wanting more. You took playing children, crackling fires, and silent winterscapes and created a visual symphony!

Violet's Harp Player (above) brought sound and season together in an unforgettable photo that lets you hear the joy and the reverence in the angels' original “on earth peace, goodwill toward men.” We are delighted to feature her photographic rendition here.

Our Random Acts of Poetry prompt asked you for a “Villanelle,” a form of poetry that makes a song out of words. In response to the prompt, Sandra Heska King wrote a playful, poignant villanelle about her mother (in addition to her winter-scape photo contributions on the “sound of silence”) that encompassed both season-sounds and the seasons of life.

Her poem is featured here:

 
To My Mother

I held you captive in my sight
while evil fingers burrowed deep, and
I heard you crying in the night.

While you focused on the light
and pumpkin-apple deer stood watch
I held you captive in my sight.

You pulled strings, made magic sleight
with finger-writing in the air, but
I heard you crying in the night.

I gathered words and tried to write
of memories and times gone by
to hold you captive in my sight.

Your body spent, His timing right
and just before the snow fell soft,
I heard you silent in the night.

You transcribed life and fought the fight
then shook and snapped the earthly chains
that held you captive in my sight.
I hear you laughing in the night.

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Please enjoy all of the submissions below. We hope you'll join us again next month!

All Random Acts of Poetry Participants

Sandy's To My Mother
Maureen's Played Into Silence
Cindee's Grace Whispers the World White
Monica's Tracing Grace
Emily's Psalms of the Promised Land
Megan's Ode to the Fantasticks
Kelly's The Light and the Springtime

Tony's Elle and the Villain

All PhotoPlay Participants

Click on the thumbnails for a full view.

Harp photo by Violet Nesdoly. Sourced via Flickr. Used with permission.

Post by Kelly Sauer, Contributing Editor, Photography. Special thanks to L.L. Barkat for hosting Random Acts of Poetry.

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