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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: Childhood

The Way We Walk

Once, walking through the forest where the Bayan Tree Plaza stands today,I stepped on a branch with a thorn so … More

#Aging, #Childhood, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Christmas, say, 60 years ago

Say 60 years ago this morning, my sister and I would have been awake much earlier than sunrise, earlier than … More

#Childhood, #Christmas, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

Pray for a Generation A

We’re in a woeful state, down to the last generation: Z.I fear it might be they’re an omega of generations … More

#Childhood, #Children, #Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Today

When your legs moved like wheels,the pounding exhilarating,arms pumping, well-oiled pistons,remember the more and more of a young blood rush. Such … More

#Aging, #Childhood, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

On the Way

We’d become friends back in elementary school,she and I waiting for our dads to pick us up,we’d sit on the … More

#Childhood, #Death, #Loss, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

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

Nature Is Revealed

Where are the ones in the suits of gold,those second lookers who’d whiplash our tender necks,the heart beaters who’d burst … More

#Aging, #Changes, #Childhood, #Love, #Memories, #Nature, #Nostalgia, #OldAge, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Teenagers, #WriterSunday

The Homecoming (Part Six)

He and Mel had been out drinking with the gang, but everyone else had pooped out and gone home.  Tomorrow … More

#Childhood, #friendship, #Hawaii, #ShortStory, #WriterSaturday

Kauaʻi, Boys, Is nō ka ʻoi

EXTERIOR. ON THE BEACH AT KEKAHA, KAUAʻI, HAWAIʻI EVENING Four friends, BEANPOLE, BROWNIE, GOODIE, and PEANUT sit on the sand … More

#Changes, #Childhood, #friendship, #Hawaii, #Learning, #PlayScript, #TakingChances, #Teenagers, #WriterSaturday

All I Had To Do

I have been dreaming myself into stories again.  These should be some of the quietest journeys I will ever take, … More

#Aging, #Birthdays, #Childhood, #Dreams, #Hawaii, #ShortStory, #SmallWorld, #Time, #WriterWednesday

My Last Stand-Up Gig

My mom had a pretty good sense of humor.  One time she bought a book of elephant jokes, and she … More

#Childhood, #FlashFictionFeb, #MothersandSons, #ShortStory, #WriterSaturday

No Survivors

I’m guessing someone’s died out here tonight. He’d been brought up in the Lutheran Church, his Grandmother and then his … More

#Cars, #Changes, #Childhood, #Driving, #FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #Religion, #ShortStory, #WriterTuesday

Target

He watched the Buddhist monks practice their archery at Kapiolani Park.  They would draw back the bow string, close their … More

#Animals, #Childhood, #FathersandSons, #FlashFictionFeb, #food, #Hawaii, #Learning, #ShortStory, #WriterFriday

The Swimming Lesson

            When Art Kamaka was three years old, his father had drowned, along with two friends, while fishing in the Kaiwi … More

#Childhood, #Death, #FathersandSons, #FlashFictionFeb, #Hawaii, #ShortStory, #Swimming, #TakingChances, #WriterSunday

This is now

Sometimes I think I’ve becomethat man it’s said will never understand the boyeven though he has been that boybecause he’s … More

#Aging, #Childhood, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time

All Hallows’ Eve

I started running when I moved back to Honolulu.  Running in Madison was difficult for me because it was always either … More

#Childhood, #Ghosts, #Halloween, #Hawaii, #Mystery, #ShortStory, #Witches, #WriterSunday

Miss Bianca

“Let’s go to Auntie Ruthie’s house.” “By bus?” “No, let’s walk.” “Walk!  But it’s so far.” “No it’s not far.” “Yes … More

#Animals, #Cars, #Childhood, #Mothers, #WriterFriday

Turtle Logic

It was the coldest winter on record in Wisconsin.  David was glad to be back home in Hawai‘i for winter break.  Grad … More

#Animals, #Childhood, #Grief, #Hawaii, #ShortStory, #Teachers, #WriterSunday

No Fall at Kōke‘e

It was that booming sound of rage, so thrillingto witness the angry sloshup of hydrologic forces,brimming froth and foam and … More

#Childhood, #Death, #Memories, #Poetry, #TakingChances, #WriterWednesday

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 … More

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

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