The fact that you use Anglo Saxon and other hard languages to comment should be OK, I rarely use those words but I do get more attention when I do, I wonder why lol.
Good to visualise you sat there cross legged giving it shit trying not to fall off of your seat, just stay as you are, but should you get out of line I shall talk with another tongue. lol
Good to have a Blog on this it may stop some frail creatures becoming offended, I spent many years in the forces and in strange places where the words were few but pointed...
Take care young Elf, we have a long journey to do, so lets keep a few secrets.
Yours Ian.T

as a good ole aussie shiela I’m used to bloody havin’ the males around me use fuckin’ colourful language
lol – colourful, blue…. it is an ideology of its own…

me mum always said that we girls had a better command of the queen’s bloody english and so we didn’t need to fuckin’ swear our way through a bloody sentence to make our fuckin' point.
and you’ll never fuckin’ find me bloody using it… no fuckin’ way
its just not bloody ladylike
fuck no

love judy
xxx

I get the impression that you are clueless as to why the Baptist member so strongly objected to "Damn you". Totell a deeply religious person this and to be taken seriously in the implied wish is to suggest that they actually be cast into hell for eternity. They would probably have preferred to be told fuck you or called a cunt or whore as such gives a chance for redemption. This is why I always urge care in language use in commentary. One can never know how language which is considered appropriate in one culture will be taken in another.
Shortly after the war between the states, a southern ex -Conferderate officer told an occupying union officer he thought his wife was a peach. Meant as a compliment. It was taken as meaning her complection was yellow and fuzzy. The union officer shot the confderate down for so badly insulting his wife.
Now my opinion about the use of profanity is quite different as poetry should seldom be taken personally by the reader. Thus an explective in poetry when not used out of character to the overall poem is not only acceptable but at times needed.
But:
Mary had a little lamb fuck
whose fleece was white as snow bitch
now that's just trying to get attention via shock value
And of course I harly expect this to actually make any difference in others' use of profanity, I just posted so as to explain my own feelings about it..............stan

Guess I misspoke. The Poetry should be taken personally, but any harsh language within a poem is seldom taken as a personal affront to a reader (at least not This one). Another reason to use profanity sparingly is that over use dulls it's shock value................stan