A story told in homonyms.

How many homonyms do you count?

“I’ll write a holy hymn of praise,” says Wayne,
“of Him and how our lives were won.
A piece that rings so right and awe-ful
that it frees the very soul.”

He prays and chants.
He stops to pour some wine.

But nothing songful comes.

“Brain freeze,” he sighs.
“These days are truly awful.”

He wrings his coarse hands
and wholly in a daze
he wanders up the aisle.

Standing at the altar,
feeling small in size,
a sum of something less than zero
poor Wayne begins to whine:

“Great muse, don’t wane!
Just one sole chance,
that’s all I ask.”

A voice comes back:
“Alter your plan.
Vary your course.
You can write another day.”

Homonyms

1. I’ll/aisle
2. write/right
3. holy/wholly
4. hymn/Him
5. praise/prays
6. soul/sole
7. Wayne/wane
8. won/one
9. rings/wrings
10. coarse/course
11. awe-ful/awful
12. frees/freeze
13. sighs/size
14. very/vary
15. soul/sole
16. chants/chance
17. pour/poor
18. some/sum
19. wine/whine
20. altar/alter
21. sighs/size
22. days/daze
23. altar/alter