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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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Category: Life

Wellspring

In every family there is one central soul,the energetic heart that pumps life blood to all,the bond of it all … More

#Death, #Family, #life, #WriterSaturday

What’s Done

Pressing themselves, all of them, into permanent wallflowers, these young people gone flat at functions, standing still, eyes lasers on … More

#Changes, #Communication, #life, #Technology, #WriterMonday

The Final Movement

Our father says the sound is loud enough to wake the dead. The music is alive tonight in infinite weathered … More

#life, #Music, #Weather, #WriterSaturday

If It Wasn’t for Bad Luck

I did not recognize Keola. If you’ve not seen someone for, say, 25 years, you might have little difficulty recognizing … More

#Childhood, #friendship, #life, #WriterTuesday

The Long Grass

I touch him carefully and wait. Nothing happens. I lay my hand on him, stroke him. This perks him up … More

#Death, #life, #LovedOnes, #WriterFriday, #Yardwork

Normal

If you lived an eternity in each moment, he wondered,why wouldn’t that mean you’d only ever live for a single … More

#life, #Time, #WriterFriday

Pursuit

The only way to get in there, she believed without question, was throughperforming good deeds, the living by and through … More

#gooddeeds, #life, #Religion, #WriterWednesday

Lifesaver

He’d joined on the Daegu because his uncle captained that long-line vessel.It was grueling work, worse his stomach betrayed him … More

#Danger, #Fish, #life, #Work, #WriterTuesday

Recognition

Dreaming, he recollected the building as his old high school.Floating on air, he was transported into a classroom there.On the … More

#Death, #Education, #life, #WriterFriday

Adaptation

When I was 21 and tired of school, tired of anger, and sick of hurting,at Fisherman’s Wharf, I watched ships … More

#Changes, #Death, #life, #WriterTuesday

New Old Dog (I’m still struggling)

For one, you were a sleight-of-hand magician,and I still haven’t figured out all of the tricks youpulled, a tribute to … More

#Death, #FathersandSons, #life, #Time, #WriterWednesday

The Ghosts of Christmas Past

I lie and watch TV on Christmas Day with no desire,really, to glean anything of value from it, not understandinghalf … More

#Christmas, #Death, #family, #Friends, #life, #Time, #WriterSunday

For the Future

Right now, we’re on a South Korean island, Jeju,sitting in what China calls the East China Sea,and what the Koreans, … More

#Death, #Korea, #life, #Travel, #WriterSaturday

A New Way

The beginning’s in the end, you know.Good advice, like how a closing door signalssome new one opening, or a window, … More

#Death, #life, #WriterTuesday

Death Certificates

Kahi felt like an idiot. He’d seen this so many times on TV, read about it in stories. If you … More

#life, #ParentsandChildren, #WriterMonday

From Time to Time

He woke up crying, rocking in his bed,unable to stand, let alone walk,and he wondered would he ever be ableto … More

#life, #Time, #WriterSunday

Some Rave Review

Have you ever been curious about the notionthat when you are about to die, your lifewill flash before your eyes? … More

#Death, #life, #WriterSaturday

The Ancient Singer

Someone’s stumbling on the prayerEveryone tripping on the wayThey’d sew me a new coatWhere the treadle machine’s storedHoping we don’t … More

#life, #WriterFriday, Aging

Softening Music

Grampa sits on the porch rockingHums songs from back in the day when he sang themFull-throated, lung-topped and smiling breathlesslyFeeling … More

#family, #life, #Time, #WriterThursday

From Then To

I remember the dawn’s first early light,silhouettes of darkened heads bob love,no secret anymore, amore in paradise,no strangers to me … More

#Death, #life, #Love, #WriterTuesday

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