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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: Poems from Hawai’i

The Clock on the Wall

Exactly a year from now, I wonder ifI’ll be sitting at my computer writing something?I believe I foresee a good … More

#life, #OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterMonday

I’m No Astronomer

I’m No Astronomer I don’t know if this is scientifically accurate,but the whole thing bugs me along these lines.Today I … More

#life, #Memory, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

We Were Then

That silver flame subdued all color  into black and white. Remembering neon paint and black light nights. I recall the … More

#Dance, #Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #School, #Teenagers, #WriterSaturday

My Online Dating Education

Was it 40 or 50 years ago now that my sisterconvinced me to try online dating? I’ve losttrack of how … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday, Romance

Dream of Life

I’ve had this dream before, variations of it, many times.This morning it was my final dream of the night,so right … More

#Death, #FathersandSons, #PoemsFromHawaii, #War, #WriterThursday

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

Long May She Wave

Yet no one passing by stoops to retrievethis fragment of our flag oddlyleft to weather on the roadside.Tattered and fading … More

#Effort, #Optimism, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

I Had a Dream

This morning I had an enormous idea.I’m talking it was spectacular, my friends. I woke up from a dream where … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday, Hope, Wishes

Remember To Buy . . . What?

I’m standing in the supermarket again, reaching in my pocketfor the list I wrote out on the breakfast counter at … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday, Aging

A Creativity Mystery

I learned recently that Claude Monet wanted mostto paint the air between himself and his subject.I’m still trying to wrap … More

#Art, #OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday

A Human Hero

From up here it’s simple to say you see what this legendary saga of long ago is all about. His … More

#Heroes, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday

Okay

When you can’t kill the deer it’s okay to say okay. Give in to life and let live. The one … More

#Death, #friendship, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant

for Billy Collins I can’t resist the temptationto write about you, old man,eating alone at the corner table in a … More

#BillyCollins, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Aging

Do What I Must Do

If I’ve told these people once, I’ve told them a thousand times:let sleeping dragons lie, folks, for roused, they’re bad … More

#Death, #Fighting, #Leadership, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Like Wow

Holy moly, how this warrior keeps waltzing out of hell;It would be a drag, I suppose, if he lost a … More

#Death, #Fighting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

I’m Back

She’s one ugly mother, but I’ve witnessed worse,turned down dates with women not far from this foul.I have standards, you … More

#Death, #Fighting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday

A Mother’s Love

I see him limp home, his arm torn from his shoulder,mumbling weird words about a mighty stranger,some foreign crazed killer … More

#Death, #Fighting, #MothersandSons, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Revenge, #WriterSaturday

Seeking Second-Sight

Now he knew he’d see anything coming.Whatever it was, it couldn’t hide from or surprise him.He’d been taken unawares before, … More

#Death, #Fate, #Fighting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Pride, #WriterFriday

The Fittest So Far

I saw his claws. They resembled handswrapped around a sword’s handle too tightly,bloodless white in the fearful death-gripof his cautions … More

#Death, #Hunger, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday

Introspection Dialogue

You look at me as if what you seeshould make you mean something moreto you than what you are. I … More

#Age, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterMonday

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