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Lanning Lee

Aloha and e komo mai. I'm an author of prose and poetry born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. I publish a daily rough draft here on my author site. Please read with me, comment, and please share your own writing. Mahalo for reading, and a hui ho.

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Month: July 2021

Fireworks Us

We were those colorful roman candles ignited, admired spectacle us,our rapid upward flight culminating is a dazzling explosion,skyrockets soaring out … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

The Next New Year

2020 hung on like the fabled in-laws of horror lorewhose interminable visit, born of some hitched up sufferer’stearful nostalgia for … More

#Covid, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Laundry Lines

My mom calls out from the kitchen window, telling me to hurry and bring in the clothes drying on the … More

#Childhood, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Happy Birthday

What it is important to forget all about is this wish, in what would be your classic bated moment, about … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Aging

Would Ever Seen

I feel you off-hand in my pocket just now,jingle your magic among the loose change,finger the coin of your clever … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterTuesday, Aging

A Haunting

Always pictured as a dark forest in ever after land, a hollow space opening up to a cavernous clearing, echoing … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

He Who Hesitates

My first winter ever, my friends, Kevin and Cathy, asked if I’d like to take a cross country skiing class … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Regrets, #Winter, #WriterSunday

Space Cowboys

You don’t need any money to explore space.In fact, according to a story I read,a cow jumped over the moon, … More

#Animals, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Space, #WriterSaturday

Remembering Jeff

What I remember of him was he never seemed to take things too seriously, the spin of him, how he … More

#Death, #friendship, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Icarus, Move Over

The pink plumeria tree still stands there. I can see it from my patio. More than twice its height at … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Lost

I’m hunting once more, roaming the mysterious interior,farther and farther into the forest of memory, the thicket of heart,traipsing around … More

#Memory, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

How Cold I Am

At this point I believe we should let what seems, just be, everything unquestioned and accepting anything completely. Let’s move … More

#Knowledge, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Reality, #Truth, #WriterTuesday

The Backstroke

My specialty was the backstroke,that perhaps because I associated it least with drowning,my head above water the entire time.I would … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Swimming, #WriterMonday

Eating Healthy

I’m leaning over this pot of stewing vegetables, trying to stay healthy, I’ve thrown everything into the mix I can … More

#Dreams, #Food, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Brass Ring

Whatever it was, however it happened, every leap turned out a big waste of time deal, in those days when … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday

I’m Still Here

I promised back then that if one day our situation worsened to the pointwhere people became belligerent and screamed at … More

#Pandemic, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Peace

I stood by until after the crew had filled in the hole, a fresh mound of earth rounded over them. … More

#Death, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

The Meaning of Family

You may have heard or read this morning’s news reportabout a man in China, kidnapped 24 years agoat the age … More

#family, #LovedOnes, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

My New Hawaiʻi-Based Crime Series

I’m happy to say that the first episode of my Hawaii-based crime series Follie: The Disappearances of Honolulu is now … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, Murder

Come On

This time I drop down on my kneeTo ask if you’ll please marry meYou keep staring over my head Seem … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

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