MLMM Saturday Mix – Double Take
The ‘Double Take’ challenge focuses on the use of homophones* to build your writing piece. You have two sets of homophones and you are challenged to use all of them in your response – which can be poetry or prose.
Our homophone sets this week are:
aisle – walkway
I’ll – contraction of “I will”
isle – island
and
alter – to change
altar – raised centre of worship
line for this week is:
“I’m bought and worn, but I ain’t no dupe.”

I am bought and worn,
but I ain’t no dupe.
The laces, the pearls,
the dainty daisies in white,
woven together to form a bond,
love for life.
For the “dream com true” day,
with dreams she adorned me.
Down the aisle she moved,
with the grace of a queen.
I was the only one who
could hear her heart,
and I remember how it
raced to the altar.
From the day she said I will,
till that day when she said I do,
She lived with the dire desire
to see him at the isle,
tearing up on first sight of her.
They were special and nothing,
could alter their special love.
Anniversary dances were done,
every year with love,
passion, intensity and dresses – same.
Memories were made and
moments were lives.
But today, she was alone.
This time, without him,
she did the ritual.
Wearing me, her wedding dress,
she started dancing
to their favorite tune.
I felt her heart again,
throbbing hard and,
heavy with grief.
She closed her eyes,
and thought of him.
And then a whiff of wind,
kept my laces flying,
I sensed a breath, so dear to me.
Close to her, very close,
and moving around with her.
Even death could not part them.
Still, I am bright and a fading white.
I ain’t no dupe, for,
A wedding dress I am,
that kept and still keeps
two souls wedded forever,
with my silken threads.
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This is an amazing and complex piece. I cant imagine writing something so involved as this nice work!
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It evolved into this as I wrote. No pre notions on how to end it when I began 😀
Thanks Mason 🙂
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I think that shows you are a born writer with amazing talent.
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Oops.. I am flattered 😀 😀
all writers are Mason.. even you are gifted 🙂 🙂
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Aww, thank you, Nima that’s sweet of you.
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❤ ❤ ❤
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Nima, this is so amazing, heartfelt and achingly beautiful✨💖
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Thank you so much dear Nathi ❤ ❤
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Always my pleasure 😇 and have a wonderful day, Nima!!
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You too Nathi ❤️
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Oh wow, my dear. This is so brilliantly written. I find it hard to believe that this evolved as you wrote. Brilliantly done
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Sathyam… had no clue I will end up in something like this 😬
Thank you ❤️❤️
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It’s amazing! Well done, my dear. It’s always a pleasure to read your work 🙂
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Thank you Shweta ❤️❤️
Good morning dear 🙂🙂🙂
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How was your day, dear?
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Holidays are always great dear 😊😊
Had a good one as usual ❤️
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What about you. It is weekend there😊
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Just beautiful 💙
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Thank you Era dear ❤️
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💙🤗
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You dazzle with your creative sensibilities Nima. Painfully beautiful. Kudos ♥️
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Thank you so much for thise worde dear Radhika 😊 am so happy ❤️
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Just love this!! ❤️ Happiness and grief, you’ve beautifully captured both emotions through the flow of your words. 😍
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Thank you very much Priya… and I loved your words ❤️❤️
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Marvellous dear Nima!❤❤ Such a brilliant and touching poem🤗💞🌹
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Glad you enjoyed it Ishita ❤️
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I was really enjoying it until I saw it had a sad ending.
Nima you nailed it I must say, who could think a wedding dress having such thoughts.
I absolutely loved it!
Even though it’s poignant but still it’s Too good!
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Thank you so much dear Rashmi.. and am glad to see your comment here after a long time ❤️ as I mentioned, i did not start with this very idea when I began 🙂 it just happened 😊
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That is so beautiful. I lost my husband in 2018 and I admit that I have found someone that I truly love now, despite the love I will always have for my husband. I often feel like I am wiping out the past but honestly nothing can take away the memories and all we shared together.
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Ohhh Christine.. am so sorry 😕
But glad that you found love in another soul❤️ I totally agree to what you say… good memories are always hard to be forgotten.. and maybe they even become your strength to move on … may you live long in love ❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you Nima.
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Always welcome 🙂 ❤
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this is a brilliant piece Nima and you use prompts well..
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Thanks a lot Mich !! ❤️
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Wearing me wearing the dress…. 😍
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Really nice Nima
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Thanks Sangeetha 😊
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❤️❤️❤️
Thank you dear 😀
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So beautiful! Emotions captured very well!
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Ohh… happy that you could read those emotions dear 🙂
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This is heartbreaking, Nima. You’ve framed and expressed it so beautifully!
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Thank you my dear Anisha 🙂 am so happy that you liked the writing 😀
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