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Lanning Lee

Lanning Lee

Aloha. I'm an author of prose and poetry living in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Please read with me, comment, and share your own writing.

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  • Hawaiʻi Calls: Nowemapa/November 2020
    • Hawaiʻi Calls II: Through Iune/June 2020
    • Hawaiʻi Calls I: Through Saturday / Pōʻaono 09.14.19
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Sometimes a love doesn’t seem hardly enough

to get me through this world whole Sometimes it’s just enough to get me out of bedbut by midday I’m…

#WritingPrompt, #WriterMonday, #Love, #Poetry, #Physics

My corn grows high

in five large black plastic pots on my lānai,watering, and fertilized with care,I am satisfied, bearthe slight tremorin my hands…

#WritingPrompt, #WriterMonday, #Poetry, #Aging, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Disability, #Gardening

Old Dance Record

This is the way it should be for everyone who passesswing us back, some yearning mote of feather dust floatsin…

#Dancing, #Death, #Music, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt

The Walker

I need to buy tennis balls, I thought, go upand say it’s a gift, because, you know, sir,I’ve heard they…

#Disability, #Neighbors, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 24, All’s Well That Ends

1977.  It’s mostly a blur.  Sometimes when I try to recall the events of that year, it seems as if it were…

#Birthdays, #Education, #Exams, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Wisconsin, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 23, A Tale of Mad City

My first semester at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, definitely had its best of times and worst of times split…

#Education, #friendship, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #Music, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Teachers, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 22, The Bachelor Life for Me

Never start a piece of writing offering your reader advice.  What you will find, I have reason to believe, is that…

#WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt, Memoir, NaNoWriMo2020, relationships

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 21, It Was a Very Good Year

A one, and a two: When I was living Chapter 21, it was a very good year . . . …

#Hawaii, #Love, #Memoir, #Movies, #NaNoWriMo2020, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 20, I Draw the Line

I was maybe 15 minutes late.  I ran up the stairs to the 3rd floor of George Hall and popped in the…

#Art, #Changes, #Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Teachers, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 19, Ah yes, I remember it well

The line was incredibly long.  We stood in the dark, many of us smoking because none of us knew about secondhand…

#Art, #Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 18, Like Heads Through the Hourglass

Drinking alcohol was so easy now. It seemed like only yesterday, on a dull Friday or Saturday night, we’d be…

#Accidents, #Cars, #Drinking, #Driving, #Drugs, #Hawaii, #Injuries, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #Rain, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 17, The Man from Maui

Ho!  I bet you thought when I said I’d write about that other important 11th-Grade teacher later, you were wondering how…

#Art, #Education, #Hawaii, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Teachers, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 16, The Man from the North

My junior year in high-school was one of those amazing years, the kind of year that does not come around…

#Education, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Reading, #Teachers, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 15, Get Your Motor Running

When I would hear my friends talk about what their children were going through to get their driver licenses, I…

#Cars, #Driving, #Hawaii, #Learning, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #ParentsandChildren, #travel, #Wisconsin, #WriterWednesday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 14, A Petty Pace

I know this may be hard to believe, but there was a time once, many moons ago, when English majors…

#Education, #Hawaii, #Macbeth, #NaNoWriMo2020, #WriterTuesday, #WritingPrompt

Critical Inquiry

When did the three weird sisters start hanging out together?Did they meet at a political convention, or at a grocery…

#Macbeth, #Witches, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt, poetry, Shakespeare

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 13, It’s a Small World

My voice changing, leading to my having to retire from the Honolulu Children’s Opera Chorus, and therefore losing touch with…

#Hawaii, #Memoir, #SmallWorld, #travel, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 12, Fear and Loathing

I understand that scholars on the subject now generally can neither agree nor disagree whether Martin Luther, ordered to recant…

#Accidents, #Childhood, #Death, #Grief, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #NaNoWriMo2020, #Religion, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

November Song

I look back on them all long and longfor what I might have had in my mind’s eyesee red skirts…

#Aging, #Love, #Memories, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 11, Opera Man

So my sister, a charter member of the organization, said, “Come try out for the Honolulu Children’s Opera Chorus.  You might…

#Childhood, #Hawaii, #Memoir, #Music, #Opera, #Performance, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt

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