L. Bangs
@lbangs.bsky.social
Clumsy, bold, and an optimist despite…
My poetry is posted at
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com
My poetry is posted at
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com
Today was a huge bummer.
I somehow just bit my tongue for the fourth time today.
And that’s not nearly the worst of it.
Stupid Tuesdays…
I somehow just bit my tongue for the fourth time today.
And that’s not nearly the worst of it.
Stupid Tuesdays…
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Today was a huge bummer.
I somehow just bit my tongue for the fourth time today.
And that’s not nearly the worst of it.
Stupid Tuesdays…
I somehow just bit my tongue for the fourth time today.
And that’s not nearly the worst of it.
Stupid Tuesdays…
“Your gorgeous face is like
The newborn sun
That pierces and plays
Upon the sparkling water.
I can hardly look
And hardly look away.”
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The newborn sun
That pierces and plays
Upon the sparkling water.
I can hardly look
And hardly look away.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/gorg...
#poet #poetry
Gorgeous
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
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December 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Your gorgeous face is like
The newborn sun
That pierces and plays
Upon the sparkling water.
I can hardly look
And hardly look away.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/gorg...
#poet #poetry
The newborn sun
That pierces and plays
Upon the sparkling water.
I can hardly look
And hardly look away.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/gorg...
#poet #poetry
“Friends are more important
Than another lover.
So I tell myself,
But when you're close
I nearly touch your skin
Instinctively.”
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Than another lover.
So I tell myself,
But when you're close
I nearly touch your skin
Instinctively.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/alon...
#poet #poetry
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December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“Friends are more important
Than another lover.
So I tell myself,
But when you're close
I nearly touch your skin
Instinctively.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/alon...
#poet #poetry
Than another lover.
So I tell myself,
But when you're close
I nearly touch your skin
Instinctively.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/alon...
#poet #poetry
I can’t shake the idea that by the end of his term, Trump will be calling them Biden’s tariffs.
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I can’t shake the idea that by the end of his term, Trump will be calling them Biden’s tariffs.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
I leave soon to watch a 4 hour, 35 minute long film.
I’ll then walk directly into a different auditorium and watch another (shorter) movie.
I’m hopeless.
I’ll then walk directly into a different auditorium and watch another (shorter) movie.
I’m hopeless.
December 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I leave soon to watch a 4 hour, 35 minute long film.
I’ll then walk directly into a different auditorium and watch another (shorter) movie.
I’m hopeless.
I’ll then walk directly into a different auditorium and watch another (shorter) movie.
I’m hopeless.
Never let it be said I’m not a top shelf friend.
December 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Never let it be said I’m not a top shelf friend.
Netflix should not be allowed to buy Warner Bros.
With Netflix and HBO combined, other streamers will struggle to compete…
…and your already crazy prices will go sky high.
Throw a fit, folks.
With Netflix and HBO combined, other streamers will struggle to compete…
…and your already crazy prices will go sky high.
Throw a fit, folks.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Netflix should not be allowed to buy Warner Bros.
With Netflix and HBO combined, other streamers will struggle to compete…
…and your already crazy prices will go sky high.
Throw a fit, folks.
With Netflix and HBO combined, other streamers will struggle to compete…
…and your already crazy prices will go sky high.
Throw a fit, folks.
“I guess I watched too many
Kurasawa movies after midnight,
Trusting you can always simply
Wipe the blood from off the blade.”
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Kurasawa movies after midnight,
Trusting you can always simply
Wipe the blood from off the blade.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/hara...
#poet #poetry
Harada
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“I guess I watched too many
Kurasawa movies after midnight,
Trusting you can always simply
Wipe the blood from off the blade.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/hara...
#poet #poetry
Kurasawa movies after midnight,
Trusting you can always simply
Wipe the blood from off the blade.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/hara...
#poet #poetry
I really enjoyed Ready or Not.
I’m in no way sold on this sequel.
I’m in no way sold on this sequel.
December 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I really enjoyed Ready or Not.
I’m in no way sold on this sequel.
I’m in no way sold on this sequel.
There is no such thing as a narco-terrorist.
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There is no such thing as a narco-terrorist.
Fair or not, I strongly suggest Democrats run a young and vigorous candidate in 2028.
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Fair or not, I strongly suggest Democrats run a young and vigorous candidate in 2028.
“You always read a lie,
Unsure my dance is nonchalant
Or bon vivant.
I offer no correction.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/buff...
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Unsure my dance is nonchalant
Or bon vivant.
I offer no correction.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/buff...
#poet #poetry
Buffeted
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“You always read a lie,
Unsure my dance is nonchalant
Or bon vivant.
I offer no correction.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/buff...
#poet #poetry
Unsure my dance is nonchalant
Or bon vivant.
I offer no correction.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/buff...
#poet #poetry
True story…
A woman on a dating app said her life goal is to have a little ranch with some animals.
I told her here in the South, we call that chicken tenders.
and somehow I’m single…
A woman on a dating app said her life goal is to have a little ranch with some animals.
I told her here in the South, we call that chicken tenders.
and somehow I’m single…
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
True story…
A woman on a dating app said her life goal is to have a little ranch with some animals.
I told her here in the South, we call that chicken tenders.
and somehow I’m single…
A woman on a dating app said her life goal is to have a little ranch with some animals.
I told her here in the South, we call that chicken tenders.
and somehow I’m single…
The V always stands for Vagina.
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The V always stands for Vagina.
“A squirt of strongest lime
To brighten up the dish
The flavor's off,
Delicious zest sublime
For stir fry faded flat.
It sat too long.
This dinner's isn't worth the effort.”
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To brighten up the dish
The flavor's off,
Delicious zest sublime
For stir fry faded flat.
It sat too long.
This dinner's isn't worth the effort.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/off....
#poet #poetry
Off
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“A squirt of strongest lime
To brighten up the dish
The flavor's off,
Delicious zest sublime
For stir fry faded flat.
It sat too long.
This dinner's isn't worth the effort.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/off....
#poet #poetry
To brighten up the dish
The flavor's off,
Delicious zest sublime
For stir fry faded flat.
It sat too long.
This dinner's isn't worth the effort.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/off....
#poet #poetry
I held the door open for a stranger this morning.
She thanked me by name.
Did I ever mention I’m faceblind?
She thanked me by name.
Did I ever mention I’m faceblind?
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I held the door open for a stranger this morning.
She thanked me by name.
Did I ever mention I’m faceblind?
She thanked me by name.
Did I ever mention I’m faceblind?
It’s a Waxahatchee Wednesday!
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It’s a Waxahatchee Wednesday!
“I am listening to softest patter,
Cool sensations of dripping skyscape,
Currents kind and hungry.
Smoothest ripples make me close my eyes
And see your hair
At highest tide.”
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Cool sensations of dripping skyscape,
Currents kind and hungry.
Smoothest ripples make me close my eyes
And see your hair
At highest tide.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/wate...
#poet #poetry
Water, Water
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“I am listening to softest patter,
Cool sensations of dripping skyscape,
Currents kind and hungry.
Smoothest ripples make me close my eyes
And see your hair
At highest tide.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/wate...
#poet #poetry
Cool sensations of dripping skyscape,
Currents kind and hungry.
Smoothest ripples make me close my eyes
And see your hair
At highest tide.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/wate...
#poet #poetry
Fackham Hall is the comedy of Naked Gun thrown into Downton Abbey.
If that sounds fun to you, this is your movie.
The film was even more Naked Gun than the Naked Gun reboot was,
If that sounds fun to you, this is your movie.
The film was even more Naked Gun than the Naked Gun reboot was,
December 2, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Fackham Hall is the comedy of Naked Gun thrown into Downton Abbey.
If that sounds fun to you, this is your movie.
The film was even more Naked Gun than the Naked Gun reboot was,
If that sounds fun to you, this is your movie.
The film was even more Naked Gun than the Naked Gun reboot was,
“I need to put my lips
To yours
And suck down all your words
Before they leave your very tender tongue.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/taci...
#poet #poetry
To yours
And suck down all your words
Before they leave your very tender tongue.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/taci...
#poet #poetry
Tacit
Wretched Poems from Columbia, South Carolina
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“I need to put my lips
To yours
And suck down all your words
Before they leave your very tender tongue.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/taci...
#poet #poetry
To yours
And suck down all your words
Before they leave your very tender tongue.”
thepoetryshack.blogspot.com/2025/12/taci...
#poet #poetry
I went all week without pie or egg nog.
Who even am I?
Who even am I?
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I went all week without pie or egg nog.
Who even am I?
Who even am I?
The South has a mathematically improbable and extremely aesthetically discouraging number of women with blonde hair.
November 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The South has a mathematically improbable and extremely aesthetically discouraging number of women with blonde hair.
Goodbye, Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Goodbye, Tom Stoppard.