The last time I heard Hawaiian music in WaikīkīIt was a quiet night at Blue Note before the pandemic struck…
Water Gazing
I sit watching a school of tiny blue fishZip lively in and out along the wharfImagine jumping in to join…
Life’s Miracles
There are angels among us alwaysEvery moment may be a revelationLife is a series of miracles all our daysThere are…
A Quickening
My night had passed me moving as slow painDressed all in my rose Sunday best I left up the empty…
Time’s Slow Fade
That former love’s words recalled moreIn bits and pieces like lyricsOf a song recalled less and lessHer face shimmers further…
You Become the Happiest Half Empty Glass
That’s the way love goes sometimesA real rollercoasterHighs to lows to loop the loopsThen all flattening out at the end…
A Searching of the Heart
I feel like a man whose memory functions glacier slow nowMy mind takes eons to piece together some semblance of…
So I’m Guessing Earth Day’s Kind of Like
Happy Birthday to youHappy Birthday to youHappy Birthday Dear Ear-rthHappy Birthday to you If the Earth could speakI’d ask it…
Just the Facts
She brushes his hand with a blood red nail as they both reach for their coffee cupsSits back on the…
Iron Wrinkles
As I put on this aloha shirtI notice the collar’s not been ironed rightSomething my old eyes didn’t catch In…
No Relief
Every night that it consumes youVariations hardly alter the hunt at allEven varied details wind you to the same endRandom…
Provided I wake up tomorrow
Kicking and screaming I grieveAs I attack minimum payments posted to me in BordeauWine colored run on sheets of slice…
A Self-Effacing Beauty
Not just another pretty faceOr boasting of looks other women should mimicTaught at a young age to value nothing by…
Time Travel
I want to call herWith words I’d say hoping maybeAre warm enough to reachNow back to then and break the…
I Dreamt of Caitlin Clark
The WNBA holds its 2024 draft today. Caitlin Clark is expected to be the number one pick. The lucky team…
Nighthawks
As a child he dreamedOf being a knight in shining armorSlaying dragons and winningThe fairest maiden in the landBenighted by…
My latest collection of poems, Every Wave Will Whisper, is now available
I’m happy to say that my latest collection of poems, Every Wave Will Whisper, is now available on Amazon in…
Never Gone
I take great comfort in knowing thisThat the dead still live in my memories of themSo they are with me…
My name is Lanning, and I’m a floss-oholic
My addiction began with my bracesThe pain they brought bothering me as nothingCompared to the agonizing torture inflictedBy bits of…
How I Grew
I remember the photo shootOnly because it’s burned in my brainFrom daily seeing myself posed in the frameDressed in little…
Lanning Lee 