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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: Loss

I’m Listening Still

“I don’t see it that way,” you say, and I begin the wonder why.We sit cross legged on the floor … More

#Loss, #Love, #Time, #WriterTuesday, #Youth

A Sure Thing

He had a hot tip.  “I wish I could tell you, my love,” said Chad, simultaneously fixing his face in … More

#Love, #WriterTuesday, Gambling, Loss

A Colder Spring

With the coming winter we spoke far less.You wanted something more than us.I watched the new chill frost the air, … More

#Love, #WriterThursday, Loss, Seasons

Things In Life

Go on, please turn your head this way.I close my eyes, and you’re all I see.The best things in life … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Loss

Under the Sun

The languor of summer days, a drop of sweat.Hit the napkin, plop on the word “miss.” It’sMezcal time here, and … More

#Drinking, #Loss, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

This Was the Way

I left you there for just a moment, at the forest’s edge, before we began our journey. When I returned … More

#Loss, #Love, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSunday

On Leaving

As porous as air, sliced Thin, I fall between See you way over there perhaps, or Not, maybe hear your … More

#Loss, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

And in our battle, they were taken

Both sides said a cross of little and big things to each other, and given the way the conflict played … More

#Loss, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

The Hunt

Over the course of the pandemic, Carl had lost both his mother and his father. He’d donated most of their … More

#ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, Loss, Searching

Auld Lang Syne

He wasn’t a mean man. The lack of emotion that everyone saw in him, was just that. He no longer … More

#Grandparents, #Loss, #ParentsandChildren, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterFriday, New Years

Last Night

After sunset last night, I sat in the darkin my garage, listening to the sound of carsrunning up and down … More

#Loss, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

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

What’s Black and White

Every morning my father brings in the newspaper, pours himself a cup coffee, then sits at the dining room table … More

#Fathers, #Loss, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterFriday, Aging

For Us

In the wake of illness striking millions by surprise those affected by it personally or through kinship ties, how they … More

#Death, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday
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