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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: April 2022

Love’s Countdown

In the beginning there was inertia,and inertia led, as you might expect,to nothing, so what had beensomethingness became nothingness: Take-out … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

The Last Meeting Mantra

We slouch around the conference table like sagging pillars of Stonehenge, all of us engrossed as vegans in the prospect … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday, Work

Episode #20 of my latest Lt. David Chan mystery series

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery

A Sorry Sight

My father sold insurance, and many of his clients lived in the roughest parts of town.He kept under the driver’s … More

#Driving, #Pandemic, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Strangers, #WriterThursday

It Felt So Good

That Sony radio’s cheap black leather strapjust barely tied the music to my wrist.So poorly made I feared it just … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

Impermanent Ink (Blue Period)

You sent me the self-portrait in a card once, maybe 1980. You are lying on your stomach, propped up on … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterTuesday

Now and Then

We sit sipping coffee.  Awkward.  Growing cold. My son and daughter, I say, in their 30s, have given me three grandchildren. I … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

To the Rescue

You didn’t finish the yard work, only half the bedroom’s painted.Dishes lie in the sink, and you hear the bathroom … More

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterSunday

No Movement

A ballroom exists, a heavenly one with a perfect floor, wide as the universe is wide,where the likes of Ginger Rogers … More

#Dance, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Talent, #WriterSaturday

Earth Day 04.22.2022

Happy Earth Day to you, Earth. Our apologies for everything we’ve done to you. We wish we could go back … More

#Ecology, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

A Snail’s Pace

Contemplate the snail, any kind of snail.More than 40,000 snail species slowly roam the earth,all peacefully paced, wending their way … More

#Death, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Episode #19 of my current Lt. David Chan Honolulu mystery series is available

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery

What the Cat Typed

I jolt awake in the dark.Well, it would be dark except my computer,as have I, has come out of sleep … More

#OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday, Animals

Some Peace

We meet our elderly guide in the late afternoon,the graying skies adding to the somber atmosphereoverlaying the double-named London/Derry landscape. … More

#Ireland, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterWednesday

Stories of My Grandmother

Sometimes my maternal grandmother visits me,I’ll come awake gradually, know she’s sitting there,silent guardian at the foot of my bed, … More

#Grandparents, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

We Meet

That night I saw you firecracker starburst red,ablaze in a beautifully carved body,an exquisite silhouette scribed against the dark,your hand … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

Transistor Days

On the square, silver Sony radiowith the cheap black leatherette wrist strapI always feared would snap,our soundtrack falling lost into … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSunday

It’s Not Me, It’s you

It’s been a while.I wish you were here.How have you been?Life hasn’t been the same without you.Do you miss me?Do … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

Too Patient

It’s been harder for me to step across that line.You’ve been waiting there for me for such a long time.If … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Family Tree

I’m sleeping, I think; this has the vivid feeling of a dream.Before my house was rebuilt, a huge mango tree … More

#Dreams, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

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