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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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Real Good Poems

How hard should a reader have to work to get something out of a poem?Would digging a hole to China … More

#OnWriting, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

How Is It with You?

Sometimes it’s a straight line,the closest distance between two points.But it’s not necessarily a flat line.For some, yes, that’s true, … More

#Death, #life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

Our Father

Arthur, our dad, told us all about who knew what and who to know. He was a big wheel in … More

#Fathers, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

Driver-less Cars

I sit behind you at the stoplight, and I know you. The light turns green, but your head bows toward … More

#Death, #Phones, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday, Driving

The House of Missing Keys, Part 17

David Chan always sat in the back of the classroom.  This wasn’t an indication of his lack of interest in his … More

#HawaiiCrimeFiction, #LieutenantDavidChanMystery, #WriterWednesday

Cliché, Not a Cliché?

I don’t think I’ve ever said to someone that something I’ve heard has been refreshing.I’m not sure I know what … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Words, #WriterWednesday

Good Talk

Why curse? Would you pluck out your tongue,hang it on the wall as a hook for your black umbrella, onebattered … More

#Anger, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Words, #WriterWednesday

The Secret Keeper

Fortunate the mother who lives the unflawed life of lore, perfect, a smooth vase, snow white, the finest ashes left, … More

#family, #life, #Mothers, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

The Palm-Reading Time

I see me catch the glass bowl admire my juggling as I stoop down I go in slow motion watch … More

#Accidents, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

It Felt So Good

That Sony radio’s cheap black leather strapjust barely tied the music to my wrist.So poorly made I feared it just … More

#Love, #Marriage, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

Some Peace

We meet our elderly guide in the late afternoon,the graying skies adding to the somber atmosphereoverlaying the double-named London/Derry landscape. … More

#Ireland, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterWednesday

How To Screw

In my younger days, it was so easy, so straightforward.Really, in my house there was only one way to do … More

#Learning, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

Mind in the Time

Remember that, she says, as we sit sipping coffee, I was all whipped-cream nosed. It has been 40 years since … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday

Growing Soft

Sorry to say, but several things about you bother me.For one, you are cleverly invisible most times.I hear your soft … More

#Insects, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

Add the Garden

For a long time you have cultured all these seeds,sprouted them like Mother Nature puttering herself,transferred them gently from little, … More

#Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Relationships, #WriterWednesday, #Yardwork

Volcano

It was too good to be true, finally, my plan to retire on the Big Island.At 30 I settled on … More

#Home, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Retirement, #TheBigIsland, #WriterWednesday

Time’s Gift

It’s that late hourBeer in handThe yard work done againI watch the close of the faded irisPurple and whiteNot as … More

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Time, #WriterWednesday

Happy Some Before Dawn

Quieter, still quieter, quiet down the energy pent up today, for such recklessness cannot sit wasting by the window ledge … More

#Love, #Music, #PoemsFromHawaii, #Work, #WriterWednesday

Each Journey a First

The idea is knowing I can go somewhere, and I amcreating the first pattern of steps no one has ever … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #Travel, #WriterWednesday

On Leaving

As porous as air, sliced Thin, I fall between See you way over there perhaps, or Not, maybe hear your … More

#Loss, #Love, #PoemsFromHawaii, #WriterWednesday

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