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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: Life

Getting To Know You

We held a first party yesterday, those of us who could finally attend.After all this time being apart so much, … More

#Covid, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

As Borrowed as Time

It’s as grim as it gets right now tonight when all you want to do is buy beer kick back … More

#Death, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

Sojourn

More seen, more said, more heard, more thought, their bags packed ever heavier by travel as they go,  the making … More

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterFriday

The Secret Keeper

Fortunate the mother who lives the unflawed life of lore, perfect, a smooth vase, snow white, the finest ashes left, … More

#family, #life, #Mothers, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

Life’s Run

Milton stumbles shakily around Mānoa Valley amid traffic. Petrarch perambulates Punchbowl Cemetery perusing stark headstones of veterans. Shakespeare window-shops for … More

#OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

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

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

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

All the Hours of the Day and Night

I don’t know which of the 12 hours I love more,the half that’s a.m., or the half that’s p.m.I’d always … More

#life, #OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterTuesday, Retirement

Moving On

This old house stands a ruin.  To restore it would be nothing short of a teardown.  The folks on This Old House would take … More

#Home, #life, #Progress, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The Summer Solstice

It’s the longest day of the year, in terms not about how your life is trending, but daylight hours. For … More

#Fall, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Seasons, #Spring, #WriterMonday

Time’s Gift

It’s that late hourBeer in handThe yard work done againI watch the close of the faded irisPurple and whiteNot as … More

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterWednesday

Very Superstitious?

Here’s my rough draft for today, Sunday 01.23.22. Very Superstitious? I toss the salt over my shoulder, but I never … More

#life, #Luck, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

Committed to Memory

It is here now for a minute, that finger-drawn faceon the steamed glass is yours, ars brevis,fading as the warmth … More

#Death, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

On the Clock

I always think it’s a dream, you know, that whole today is ending now,the clock ticking me up to midnight … More

#Death, #Knowledge, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The Bigger Picture

Each year of my life, from the very first timeI was conscious of believing it might be this way,I was … More

#Death, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Some Costly Free Advice

Each new door is an opening on another dawn. Yawn. I sing, “It seems to me I’ve heard that song … More

#Learning, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

Never Fear

I’m at the age where nostalgia’s candleburns bright.The yearning for something from the pastcan beunbearable at times,the bursting chest and … More

#Aging, #life, #Memory, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

The Remnant Hours

Rising, late in the day, the hours so strange these days, it’s time to take off the coat of sleep … More

#Death, #life, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Including Plagiarized Passages on Sections of Skin

to the reticular dermisshow a cystic cavitylined by attenuated squamous epithelium.A prominent granular layer is presentwith overlying compact, lamellated corneocytes.The … More

#Death, #Health, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, Writer Thursday

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