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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: Poems from Hawaii

Playing Old

When it’s time for me to pretend I’ve grown old,I’ve decided the most important thingI’ll need to be able to … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Aging

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

Spin

I will enter the vault in search of the song I believe I have spun here on old vinyl.Memory could … More

#Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday, Aging

Rough Cut

I read that a 90-minute movie optimally accommodates our 2021 attention spans. In the back of my mind I recall … More

#life, #Movies, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Forgetting

When I walk to the top of my hill each day, reach the end of the road,there is one object … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

When History Won’t Repeat

That secret silent wasting away of hearts breaking,glass shards piling to the floor, soundless winter fall around,a blizzard of loves, … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

BEARERS

I honored them all and was as much to me as I could bear the other sunrises ago I used … More

#Creativity, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterSunday, #Writing

Rise

Every morning a variety of birds chirp and sing me awake. And I am pleased and thankful at this late … More

#Birds, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday, Aging

Disappointing You

It’s no secret you’ve hoped NASA’d fly me to the moon Have me bounce around the dark side for a … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

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

Too Few Loves

Together again for the first time, every time, he brushed her cheek, she caressed his side, two souls seeing everything … More

#Death, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, Writer Monday
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