Every night that it consumes youVariations hardly alter the hunt at allEven varied details wind you to the same endRandom … More
Author: Lanning Lee
I write both prose and poetry. I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. I would like to see this site be one of comments and sharing of your own pieces. Together I hope we can grow our writing.
Provided I wake up tomorrow
Kicking and screaming I grieveAs I attack minimum payments posted to me in BordeauWine colored run on sheets of slice … More
A Self-Effacing Beauty
Not just another pretty faceOr boasting of looks other women should mimicTaught at a young age to value nothing by … More
Time Travel
I want to call herWith words I’d say hoping maybeAre warm enough to reachNow back to then and break the … More
I Dreamt of Caitlin Clark
The WNBA holds its 2024 draft today. Caitlin Clark is expected to be the number one pick. The lucky team … More
Nighthawks
As a child he dreamedOf being a knight in shining armorSlaying dragons and winningThe fairest maiden in the landBenighted by … More
My latest collection of poems, Every Wave Will Whisper, is now available
I’m happy to say that my latest collection of poems, Every Wave Will Whisper, is now available on Amazon in … More
Never Gone
I take great comfort in knowing thisThat the dead still live in my memories of themSo they are with me … More
My name is Lanning, and I’m a floss-oholic
My addiction began with my bracesThe pain they brought bothering me as nothingCompared to the agonizing torture inflictedBy bits of … More
How I Grew
I remember the photo shootOnly because it’s burned in my brainFrom daily seeing myself posed in the frameDressed in little … More
Mo’ Bettah
In Hawai‘i we might say“This one mo’ bettah than that one” for, say, a flavor of shave ice,and perhaps, “This … More
Love’s Mark
Your grave does look newNot just the polished markerI see the way the green grass spreads out behind itTo a … More
No Hard Feelings?
When I was boundWas I bound tightFrank Gorshin pleaseRiddle me this How can you ever feelYou’ve been turned freeWhen you … More
Love Luck
The day is young and I am notSo slowly walk this beaten pathMy daily pondering strollScanning the surroundingsSearching for a … More
The least I can do
In the last years I wonderWhy I have to do thisVisit in the nursing homeNow that your mind is goneAnd … More
Tell Don’t Show
A writer should show and not tellI’ve heard that advice foreverSo if you and I were a storyThe better final … More
Re: LAX
One night flying home from ArgentinaI suffered an unavoidable layover in LAXArriving at 8:00 p.m. exhaustedMy connecting flight to HonoluluWould … More
Gordon Lightfoot Rose
Those weren’t soft footstepsTip-toeing up the stairsWhen Gordon Lightfoot took offJumped the last jet planeTo rise whole and healedFar above … More
Like a New Year’s Resolution
You replace a faucet set on one of your sinks, the old one having ceased to function. How many times … More
What the child sees
And wraith-like rollsSome marble maybeSmiles at nothing visibleAs far as I can seePlays some internal gameKnown only to herWith the … More
Lanning Lee 