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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: Time

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

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

Reunion

There are never more, of course, always only fewer, as it is in this life, so it goes, the some … More

#Age, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterSaturday

To Place a Face

I am standing in line for coffee. Even though the social distance floor dots have disappeared, everyone stands a decent … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterFriday

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

The Hours

The first time I read Mrs. Dalloway I was quite young, 21 maybe. And I was struck by her age, 51, and … More

#Age, #Death, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterFriday

The Last Time

Mr. Fujimoto wheeled his gray trash bin to the curb and dropped it at the edge. Pausing, he looked down … More

#HusbandsandWives, #Memory, #StoriesfromHawaii, #Time, #WriterTuesday

All Those Miles

“Put ‘er there, pal,” he says, sounding as though he’s stepped out of an O. Henry story. I put my … More

#StoriesfromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterFriday, Friendship, Time

When To Come

What does it really mean to arrive fashionably late?What, you’re too busy with your important life to show up on … More

#Customs, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterThursday

A Month of Sundays

It’s what’s meant to be a long time.A month of Sundays does not exist,unless you’re retired,in which case it’s more … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday, Life, Time, Work

Far To Go

Kidnapped and blindfolded, I’m dumped in an unknown part of town.Sitting on the asphalt, I remember it’s Christmas Eve and … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #Work, #WriterThursday

On the Clock

She tells me she has never been late for an event in her life. I examine my watch. It is … More

#Dating, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterMonday

How Cold I Am

At this point I believe we should let what seems, just be, everything unquestioned and accepting anything completely. Let’s move … More

#Knowledge, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Reality, #Truth, #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

To paint the devil on the wall

Don’t ask, Will I always be me or will I change? Will I realize when I do not recognize myself … More

#Aging, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #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

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

The Homecoming (Part Two)

He sipped his tea.  Black tea in the daytime, green tea at night, right?  Or was it the other way … More

#Aging, #Dreams, #FathersandDaughters, #Hawaii, #LovedOnes, #Time, #WriterSunday

The Homecoming (Part One)

He sat at the empty round table sipping watery black tea, wondering what had happened to those 75 years.  Of … More

#friendship, #Hawaii, #Memories, #ShortStory, #Time, #Travel, #WriterSaturday

Time

To say that you have nothing but time is an exercise in self-delusion. They tied a rag around his face … More

#Death, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterFriday

That blade of grass there

the one with brown edges now, is the journeywork of a fading star, our cooling sun’s the one. Really in … More

#Aging, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #WriterWednesday

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