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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: Wisconsin

Taken

The convertible top was seven years old now. Under good conditions, Chris figured it would have held up for many … More

#Cars, #StoriesfromHawaii, #Winter, #Wisconsin, #WriterSunday

For a Minute or Two, Maybe

I did not know what weather meant until I went to Wisconsin.Winter in Hawai‘i, more rain. Summer, more heat.Spring and … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Weather, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

The Age of Ice

Reflecting on you and the lake ice, I watched how it broke upin wintertime, huge blocks working against each otheras … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Winter, #Wisconsin, #WriterWednesday

Under the Golden Arches

Always a favorite of minethat last meal with youwriting about it repeatedlyhow we dined at McDonald’sFilet-o-Fish and friesthe grandest of … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday

Abstract (Concrete Plagiarism)

Okay, I see the title of this one is Air Force Research Laboratory, Aero-Effects Laboratory optical metrology system and performance. … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday

A Meal with You

Always my favorite, reliving this, under the Golden Arches, every single Filet-o-Fish, no, really, if you could have been here … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday

Fair Game

The hole in the snowbank was deep, and as I peered into it, I imagined I was looking at some … More

#Animals, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Winter, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

Do You Remember? (An Old Car)

Listening to Neil YoungI saw your face in the fire.It took me back to Madisonand winter walks in the night.Remember … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday

Blue Mounds

We are walking the area called Blue Moundsjust outside of Madison, on a sunny summer day.It’s another picnic, she loves … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday

Much Is Made Here of Water

Beware, I’d heard, the staring into it too long, excessive water gazing made much of by him, for you may … More

#LakeMichigan, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterFriday

A Maze

It’s good for a local island boy to see life from somewhere else once in a while. Madison was an … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday, Friendship

The Last Ice Age

During the last ice age, everything seemed possible. It was a fine time, flexible for me, far from home, shivering … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterTuesday

Would Ever Seen

I feel you off-hand in my pocket just now,jingle your magic among the loose change,finger the coin of your clever … More

#Aging, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterTuesday

A Haunting

Always pictured as a dark forest in ever after land, a hollow space opening up to a cavernous clearing, echoing … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

Brass Ring

Whatever it was, however it happened, every leap turned out a big waste of time deal, in those days when … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday

A Watched Egg

It is 114 degrees, noon, and I step out onto Langdon, stealthy, my eyes darting everywhere, see someone coming, sit … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Summer, #Wisconsin, #WriterWednesday

Spring Sprang

My first winter in Madison The coldest winter since they began keeping track The temperature plummeting into the -60s with … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Winter, #Wisconsin, #WriterMonday

The Tests of Time

We’d known each other, worked together in the record store, for nearly six months already.  By the time she came … More

#Dating, #Memories, #Music, #Wisconsin, #WriterThursday

Spinning

It’s hard,the forever of never.I’d love to stay completely absorbed in the present,but I think of you now and then, … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Dreams, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterWednesday

Neighbors

Quiet practice I considered a courtesy.The gesture of a considerate neighbor. The walls in this apartment complex are thin.Sometimes I … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Neighbors, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Wisconsin, #WriterTuesday

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