Hello Das,I have been puzzled all day by your use of the word unexpurgated in reference to my poem. I was not quite awake when I read that this morning (it takes two very large mugs of very strong coffee) and really did not know how to reply. My understanding of expurgate...
I availed myself of a little poetic license in the use of the word 'unexpurgated'. That absolutely is the wrong word now that I have looked it up. My abject apologies. It looked good though. (Vanity) The meaning I was trying convey is '...
At the risk of sounding like I’m talking to myself (not to worry—I do it all the time), I wanted to add that a couple of days ago a little bell went “ding” inside my tiny little brain and suddenly I understood. It wasn’t my intelligence at al...
Thank you. Though I have written poetry most of my life, I don't consider myself a poet. I sweat and struggle with meter and rhythm, and rhyme drives me up the wall.