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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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Tag: Aging

Conduct

We’d sit at stoplights and classical music would playon the public radio station to which she still donated.Again she’d begin … More

#Music, #ParentsandChildren, #WriterSaturday, Aging

A Walk into My Past

The walk down into Waipi‘o Valley on the Big Island is easy,but the hike up isn’t, for the casual stroller … More

#Childhood, #WriterSunday, Aging

The Ancient Singer

Someone’s stumbling on the prayerEveryone tripping on the wayThey’d sew me a new coatWhere the treadle machine’s storedHoping we don’t … More

#life, #WriterFriday, Aging

So Much up in the Air

Nothing much gets the old adrenaline going now, but even if you’re tired, you know, you have to force yourself … More

#Animals, #TV, #WriterTuesday, Aging

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

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

A Head in the Honey Pot Forever

Unbelievable that it’s all come down to this, the tossingin of the handful of soil and the long stemmed roseto … More

#Childhood, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday, Aging

The Way We Walk

Once, walking through the forest where the Bayan Tree Plaza stands today,I stepped on a branch with a thorn so … More

#Childhood, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterFriday, Aging

Pathetic Prophetic

At that insightful moment in this wall-building exercise,I flashed upon those muscles allowing me to pick upthe next stone, that … More

#Accidents, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterThursday, Aging

Walking That Way

Sadness sets in counting the steps, not looking up, not looking forward. Making your way there watching your feet move, … More

#Death, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday, Aging

The End of Innocence

Here’s my rough draft for today, Sunday 01.16.22 The End of the Innocence Imagine the biggest chocolate bar you could … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday, Aging

Playing Old

When it’s time for me to pretend I’ve grown old,I’ve decided the most important thingI’ll need to be able to … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Aging

Never Fear

I’m at the age where nostalgia’s candleburns bright.The yearning for something from the pastcan beunbearable at times,the bursting chest and … More

#life, #Memory, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday, Aging

Today

When your legs moved like wheels,the pounding exhilarating,arms pumping, well-oiled pistons,remember the more and more of a young blood rush. Such … More

#Childhood, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday, Aging

Spin

I will enter the vault in search of the song I believe I have spun here on old vinyl.Memory could … More

#Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday, Aging

A Ghosting Story

       Her veined hand shakes as she grips the wooden bannister.  The faint knocking at the door has awakened her again, … More

#Ghosts, #StoriesfromHawaii, #WriterSaturday, Aging

Singular

Anytime you have the chance to see a blue blossom, be thankful for it, maybe bless it. We know blue … More

#Nature, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSaturday, Aging

Plumbing

I replaced a faucet set on one of my sinks, the old one having ceased to function. I don’t know … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterSunday, Aging

Our Entangling

into the forest into the heart heart of darkness heart where love sparks sparks light passion sparks grow fires fires … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday, Aging

Happy Birthday

What it is important to forget all about is this wish, in what would be your classic bated moment, about … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Aging

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