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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 hou.

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Tag: #WriterTuesday

Pray for a Generation A

We’re in a woeful state, down to the last generation: Z.I fear it might be they’re an omega of generations … More

#Childhood, #Children, #Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

The Family Recipe

I’m not sure where all he learned how to do it, but my father was a master cook. In fact … More

#Cooking, #Food, #ParentsandChildren, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

It’s All Work

You would think so, right, that during the downtime one of us might have done it, but we never have. … More

#Games, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

A Month of Sundays

It’s what’s meant to be a long time.A month of Sundays does not exist,unless you’re retired,in which case it’s more … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday, Life, Time, Work

One Last Act of Love

For the sake of this loved onewe know it must be done,all we singlular fossils of the future,all of us … More

#Death, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

I’m Not Bright

I’m watching TV and I hear the word “enigma.”I have no idea what that means.My dog asks, “Why the puzzled … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday, Words

Nantucket

There once was a bard from Hawai‘iWho penned little poems as a hobbyFrom the time he learned lettersHe got better … More

#OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Shakespeare, #WriterTuesday

Love at Last Sight

My brain has always been a foggy swirl of what-ifs.Every day, really. Choices. Of great consequence or small.Do I ask her … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Climax To Me (aka Here I Come) INT: Nighttime

Can you picture the moment of your conception?I like to think that it was one involving great passion,rather than an … More

#Love, #Parents, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

To See What He Had Seen — Part Eighteen

Jason Yu sat at his desk, hands folded, and looked out over the yard of his Mānoa Valley home.  He’d grown … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterTuesday

The Astronaut

When I was young, my dad told me he went to the moon on a big rocket ship.He said it was … More

#FathersandSons, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

To See What He Had Seen — Part Eleven

Chan couldn’t find a parking space within two blocks of the station.  Definitely the department had outgrown its location at Merchant … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterTuesday

A Meditation

Being alive always struck me as a kind of double-edged sword.To be afraid of the unknown, I suppose, is natural.I … More

#Death, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

To Dream the Impossible Dream

Ever wonder if it’s spring’s choice to grow green grass and all those leaves and flowers?Or is spring coerced, preferring … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Seasons, #Spring, #WriterTuesday

E komo/kipa mai?

It’s fuckin fucked up ovah here Everybody coming not jes for play tourist But fo fuckin live, permanent kine, like … More

#Hawaii, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

Walk This Way

She said that the way I walked was funny. I asked why, so she demonstrated. She swung her shoulders and … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday, Memories

The Outlier

Sheryl brought him to our party, Vern, a guy she’d met in her Psych class. We were playing Telegraph or … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Strangers, #WriterTuesday

I Don’t Ask

You cover the hole in your throat with your finger to tell me the story, the odd scratchy vibrato striking … More

#friendship, #Health, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterTuesday

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

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

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