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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: Relationships

Maybe You Can’t Fix What I Have

Broken when the US mail chokes how my letters take so much time is it there yet read it immediately … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

Love’s Countdown

In the beginning there was inertia,and inertia led, as you might expect,to nothing, so what had beensomethingness became nothingness: Take-out … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

Impermanent Ink (Blue Period)

You sent me the self-portrait in a card once, maybe 1980. You are lying on your stomach, propped up on … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterTuesday

Now and Then

We sit sipping coffee.  Awkward.  Growing cold. My son and daughter, I say, in their 30s, have given me three grandchildren. I … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

We Meet

That night I saw you firecracker starburst red,ablaze in a beautifully carved body,an exquisite silhouette scribed against the dark,your hand … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterMonday

Transistor Days

On the square, silver Sony radiowith the cheap black leatherette wrist strapI always feared would snap,our soundtrack falling lost into … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSunday

It’s Not Me, It’s you

It’s been a while.I wish you were here.How have you been?Life hasn’t been the same without you.Do you miss me?Do … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

The Fruits of Love’s Labor

May I write a song for us?Maybe about our family tree?How about our hawking birds and stinging bees?The scheme of … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSunday

Mind in the Time

Remember that, she says, as we sit sipping coffee, I was all whipped-cream nosed. It has been 40 years since … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

Unwound

My legs are tired, heavy.Each step’s more a slog.The clock slows down.Someone forgot to wind it.Used to stay on top … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #Time, #WriterMonday

Add the Garden

For a long time you have cultured all these seeds,sprouted them like Mother Nature puttering herself,transferred them gently from little, … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday, #Yardwork

Gone South

You know your romance has gone awry when toys fail. I’m not talking about batteries. I mean when suggest a … More

#Love, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterThursday, Relationships

Bread Alone

There were no more good reasons I could come up with, no more desperate excuses I could dream up for … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

A Dream Within a Dream

I listened to my boss’s pep talk. Let me make this clear as crystal to all of you.You’ve heard, I … More

#Competition, #Dreams, #HusbandsandWives, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #Rivalries, #WriterTuesday

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

The Homecoming (Part Five)

In this post-pandemic world, travel had become trickier.  On top of the health layers, people didn’t act the way they … More

#fiction, #Hawaii, #Love, #OldAge, #Relationships, #WriterFriday

Customers

I see them pop up.It’s not really so unusual here.I imagine the dialogue, There, you say, no there.Yes, that’s it.  … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #Shopping, #WriterTuesday

Love Struck

My eyes burning and blurry fixed on the Honolulu International Center arena where she’s with her family at a kung … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Dating, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

Breakfast After a Bad One

Old lovers are ghosts, pass the pancakes,pass the syrup, blueberry, not maple, please,the way they shift themselves into our consciousness,when … More

#Dreams, #Ghosts, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterSunday

Hearing Loss

What’s that you’re saying under your breath,a curse or a blessing for me, you’ve done both well.I’ve grown to known … More

#Love, #OldAge, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #WriterWednesday

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