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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: #sonnetsfromhawaii

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

#sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #WriterWednesday, Aging

Dinnertime

Charlie calls hogs, eats um, chickens too, royally roasting marbled tunes of time draped in gold and bar-b-que sauce, sweet … More

#Music, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSunday

What’s Ahead

There was a choice in the road up ahead, should I go right, or should I go left? Night had … More

#Choices, #Living, #Love, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSaturday

Black Falling Rain

The white smoke winding cloth about her face, pale cerement, raised off-handed, another Pall Mall cigarette lit, red pack, another … More

#Death, #Love, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSunday

Dance with Me

I don’t know who was more against it. We always held each other in vice grips. I waited for the … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Love, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterWednesday

A Body at Rest

She sleeps deeply, beautiful as smooth carved marble, her moonlit face shows no wrinkles, no scars that you might see … More

#2021AprilPADChallenge, #Dreams, #Love, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday, Aging

Grab Hold and Come On In

A fairy tale convict, restrained in her tower cell, scratching those long, thin lines, doleful exercise, the shaky ones that … More

#sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterMonday

Hearing Loss

What’s that you’re saying under your breath,a curse or a blessing for me, you’ve done both well.I’ve grown to known … More

#Love, #OldAge, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, #WriterWednesday

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

To Move On

All those times you’d been togethernot holding onto you, sticking with you,how after all this can laughter heal you, evercome … More

#Death, #Grief, #Love, #LovedOnes, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSaturday

The world, grown old

You know, my fate’s really always come down to you.It’s been that way since 1982.I’ve counted the years nearly every … More

#Love, #OldAge, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Wishes, Aging

This is now

Sometimes I think I’ve becomethat man it’s said will never understand the boyeven though he has been that boybecause he’s … More

#Childhood, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Time, Aging

burn that mother down

I stare into a mirror sometimeswhere we bathed in a fiery lakebaby seen over my shoulder those gray eyesI can’t … More

#Dancing, #Love, #Poetry, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday

Mānoa Driving Lessons

Friday nights we smoke dopedrink Strawberry Hilland I give Steve driving lessons Every time we pass by her houseSteve stops … More

#Cars, #Drugs, #Games, #Love, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #Teenagers, #WriterSunday, Drinking

The moment

when sorrow impossibly palesloss of what made sense and words lostcome untethered time and rhymeunreasoned rants in late day hazespeech … More

#Death, #OldAge, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterMonday

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

Books as old friends

I read you again, silent words and fading pagesturn them, weighing the paperthe memory of our first touchI close my … More

#Love, #Relationships, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterTuesday, Aging

My corn grows high

in five large black plastic pots on my lānai,watering, and fertilized with care,I am satisfied, bearthe slight tremorin my hands … More

#Disability, #Gardening, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterMonday, #WritingPrompt, Aging

Old Dance Record

This is the way it should be for everyone who passesswing us back, some yearning mote of feather dust floatsin … More

#Dancing, #Death, #Music, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSunday, #WritingPrompt

The Walker

I need to buy tennis balls, I thought, go upand say it’s a gift, because, you know, sir,I’ve heard they … More

#Disability, #Neighbors, #Poetry, #sonnetsfromhawaii, #WriterSaturday, #WritingPrompt

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