Keep Right On Writing

1 Would you say that you’d like to write better? 2 Keep writing whether book or love letter. 3 Great writers don’t quit, they write quite a lot. 4 If tempted to stop they simply did not 5 The best of the best, I’d even dare say, 6 Wrote not a few that they just threw away. 7 When eyes of blank pages stare up at you 8 “Quitting makes perfect,” has never been true- 9 ly the more that you practice you’ll find 10 forsooth erelong you shall broaden your mind. 11 The pen is a sword of limitless might; 12 If something is wrong, words can make it write. 13 Words are like arrows that target the soul. 14 They twang, zip, then thump when shot with control; 15 Untrained words injure and never strike true. 16 So religiously write, routinely review 17 For words are the lamp, through darkness lighting. 18 So always, forever just keep right on writing. 8.28.18 Contest: A Litany of Poetic Devices Sponsors Line Gauthier Literary Devices by line: 1. rhetorical question 2. internal rhyme 3. consonance (t) 4. inversion 5. parallelism (and superlative) 6. litote 7. personification 8. antithesis 9. enjambment 10. archaism 11. metonymy and metaphor 12. pun (homonym) 13. simile 14. onomatopoeia 15. dissonance (via harsh consonants and uneven vowels) 16. alliteration 17. hyperbaton and metaphor 18. pleonasm