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Lanning Lee

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: #Memories

Old

She remembered that day, that one so long agoit seemed it was a dream, and that fond embraceso hard it … More

#Love, #Marriage, #Memories, #WriterFriday

Stay Away

I recall the manapua,my favorite steamed char siu buns,half-moons and pork hash.The box half full or half empty? When that … More

#Food, #Memories, #Romance, #WriterMonday

Nature Is Revealed

Where are the ones in the suits of gold,those second lookers who’d whiplash our tender necks,the heart beaters who’d burst … More

#Changes, #Childhood, #Love, #Memories, #Nature, #Nostalgia, #OldAge, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Teenagers, #WriterSunday, Aging

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

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

Good Medicine

Jim tells me he admires the thick patch of aloe vera flowing down through my rock garden to the patio, … More

#Accidents, #Gardening, #Memories, #Prose, #WriterThursday

That Heart-Shaped Box

Hanging up, I thought then, at that instant,because I was absolutely sure, 19-year old certain,the world would be shot full … More

#Dreams, #Love, #Memories, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterMonday

It’s hard to be where you aren’t

Because there’s too much headwind whipping now,too much ocean motion for me to feel your ripples,finger skin tendered soft, how … More

#Birthdays, #Love, #Memories, #OldAge, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #WriterWednesday

The Big Knife

At my house, growing up, we had the Big Knife.  I don’t know if it was the same at your … More

#family, #FathersandDaughters, #Grandparents, #Grief, #Hawaii, #Memories, #ShortStory, #WriterTuesday

Remember this one?

It’s us sitting on a seawall.Maybe somewhere near Waikīkī.I don’t know.Great photo though.We’re both looking down and toward each other.We’re … More

#Hawaii, #Love, #Memories, #Photographs, #Relationships, #WriterSaturday

The Last Unopened Letter

I grew up calling the neighboring islands of our state that weren’t O‘ahu the “outside” islands, and that big continent … More

#Ethnicity, #FlashFictionFeb, #friendship, #Hawaii, #Memories, #Race, #Wisconsin, #WriterSaturday

Checkout

They entered West Towne Mall and Mrs. Goodman gave great thanks for the warmth.  It was officially the coldest winter on … More

#Birthdays, #FlashFictionFeb, #Love, #Memories, #MothersandDaughters, #MothersandSons, #ShortStory, #Time, #Wisconsin, #WriterSunday

Carousel of Time

The end of the carnival of light and soundthe summertime fairgroundof Ferris wheel and rollercoaster rideslaughter a million miles from … More

#Memories, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterWednesday, Aging

No Fall at Kōke‘e

It was that booming sound of rage, so thrillingto witness the angry sloshup of hydrologic forces,brimming froth and foam and … More

#Childhood, #Death, #Memories, #Poetry, #TakingChances, #WriterWednesday

November Song

I look back on them all long and longfor what I might have had in my mind’s eyesee red skirts … More

#Love, #Memories, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterFriday, #WritingPrompt, Aging
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