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Kassie
Member since December 17, 2009
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No age-restricted Movie
There are parents who shelter their
children from the cruelties of this world.
No horror movies or age-restricted 16,
No smoking nor swearing,
No finance discussions or political debates.
Cocooned in a family-nest,
kept safe, protected.
Innocence shielded.
Yet, you pulled me out and shoved me
into the real world...
Where children die of hunger
and girls get raped on the street corner.
Where boogey men are not just monsters who
jump out of closets but reality.
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Where girlfriends slap me across the face and
beer bottles get thrown at us.
Where policemen come knocking at our door,
dragging me away screaming.
Where prostitutes fall out of balconies and drug lords
become our next-door-neighbours.
Where 16 year olds sell their souls and hypocrytic pastors
turn a blind eye to the imperfect.
This is no age restricted movie.
This is real.
Why did you not make me leave the room?
Too much responsibility.
Grown up too soon.
Why did you not shelter me?
Cover my eyes?
It was bad but it was good.
I am strong, streetwise, sturdy, steadfast and
hardwearing.
I can handle anything, relate to anything.
Still. I wish you hadn't.
I just wanted to be a child.
Sheltered.
Safe.
Oblivious.
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- December 2010
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One year of membership
- July 2010
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09 FriReceived a critique
on Death by Poison - (alcoholism) from @Professor Purple
"Excellent work! To me it's sorta disturbing, because I've been there but not with alcolhol. Anyway, by far my favourite line is "only to understand that your only understanding was your desperate desire to want to under…" - May 2010
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16 SunReceived a critique
on No age-restricted Movie from @shirley harrison
"This is a superb piece of poetry, my best friend is from South Africa, and i know its one of the most beautiful countries in the world, unfortunately its so full of crime, i my self have heard many very shocking stories…" -
15 SatReceived a critique
on No age-restricted Movie from @xena465
"I love the strong feelings that came through in all that you wrote and I love how you ended it with the last few lines...well done. Rosina xena465" -
15 Sat
- March 2010
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- February 2010
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14 SunPosted a poem
No Greater Love
"Love is a difficult emotion to describe. Not just simply a wonderful, exuberant concoction of chemicals and hormones in the pit of your stomach, it takes many forms: an action, gesture or simply an evanescent, elevated feeling of intense happiness when a moment just feels right. But even more complex is the form of love that comes in sacrifice. For more often the greatest, rarest and most sacred forms of love is so much more than a simple chemical reaction. Rather, it is the unceasing, unvarying and neverending, continual decision to deny oneself and dedicate your life to another no matter what the cost." - December 2009
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17 ThuFirst critique offered
on "When I'm an old Lady...." by @Antoinette Marie White
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17 ThuFirst publication
Subconscious
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16 WedJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
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