Pondering Minutia and Criticism

I need to say one thing, just once and then I'll get over it for another five minutes or so...

There is no such thing as an expert poet.

If you write poetry and choose to stop learning, exploring, pushing boundaries, experimenting and just playing with the language, frankly you cease to become a poet.  Nobody ever really perfects anything in poetry.  Nobody should.  You can get good at something, proficient, knowledgeable -- but never expert.  

And frankly, that's the way it should be.  It's the journey that's important, not the destination.