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Lanning Lee

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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Category: Aging

Remarkable

Her hand grips mine for the first timeand the dream becomes real. I bet she says, I’m the one you’ll … More

#Aging, #Love, #Memory, #WriterSunday

The Apple Doesn’t Fall

Few apple trees will fruit this latein fall, but I do see a fewin the far misting distance,the children I’ve … More

#Aging, #Seasons, #WriterThursday, #Youth

A Temporary Parting

I recognize the boy climbing up the bank on the other side.Turning, he calls to me, over the rush of … More

#WriterSunday, Aging, Death

Homecoming

The Christmas berry tree where I hung in the crookof the main branch, every night, always after dark, I waited,you … More

#Aging, #ParentsandChildren, #Time, #WriterTuesday

No Game

The way old people misplace their memories,and sometimes the younger ones, too,it’s a game of hide with no seek,where the … More

#Aging, #Memory, #WriterSaturday

Beyond Pain

Someone I loved, I heard the other day,a woman I’d known in my Madison years,had battled Parkinson’s for ten long … More

#Aging, #Love, #WriterTuesday, #Youth

geography of days

now we found us at the shorelook back but can’t turnsubject of our footprintsfood for some godwade in and breaststrokememories … More

#Aging, #WriterSaturday

All Our Summers Find One Winter’s End

The only photo I had was of you at that one picnic,blue, long-sleeved shirt, a turtle neck, and white slacks.Our … More

#Love, #WriterMonday, Aging, Death

Hardly Living

To be in peak health and die in your sleep, unaware of a painless passing, this is the way I … More

#Aging, #Disability, #Health, #WriterThursday

Missing

The sides of the mountain are heavily wooded, a palette of greens and browns, but the top is craggy and … More

#Aging, #HusbandsandWives, #ParentsandChildren, #WriterSunday, Memory

Buried Love

Sally Anuhea was an avid newspaper reader. Even as she aged, she kept loyal to a print copy, although the … More

#Aging, #Relationships, #Time, #WriterSaturday

Time Was Money

There was no escape. Time and tide, they say, but collectors are the same in that respect. They do not … More

#Aging, #Bills, #Birds, #WriterSaturday

Example

“So, I read your papers,” said Mr. Yang. “How many times do I have to tell you, folks, never to … More

#Aging, #Education, #Teaching, #WriterThursday

It’s Late

Back in the day, when he figured he’d never be one of the victims, he’d duck into Safeway, 7-Eleven, or … More

#Aging, #Health, #Smoking, #WriterFriday

Tomorrow

The two took a table, their old table, in the Coffee Stop.  It was one establishment that had survived the worst … More

#Aging, #Covid, #friendship, #WriterSunday

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 … More

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

Above the Water Below Us (HS 148)

The water is full of ghosts and him.  In the water.  There.A child’s eyes staring back at you. Right there.  Pointing,I follow my … More

#HawaiiSonnets, #WriterThursday, #WritingPrompt, Aging

Waikīkī My Whole Life

She says, Surely you’re kidding me about Waikīkī.I say, Oh, yes, — no offense — of course . . . … More

#Poetry, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt, Aging

From Rags

These things. I thought I’d wear them only when I died.I’ve never been accused of being a social butterfly,have long … More

#WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt, Aging, Poetry
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