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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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The Innocent

It had become dangerous for the universities to remain open. Still, I begged my parents to let me attend. In … More

#Language, #Romance, #War, #WriterSunday

PTSD

I dream of my father today, the Battle of the Bulge,begun on this date in 1944, the fiercest European Theaterengagement … More

#Death, #Fathers, #War, #WriterFriday

The 38th Parallel

I’m standing next to my Uncle Wonnie.  He’s peering through a viewing slot in the bunker.  The opening is about six inches, … More

#Korea, #Relatives, #Travel, #War, #WriterFriday

The Myth of Every Hope Fulfilled

From the top of the Gwangbok Lotte Department StoreI can see the Yeongdo(daegyo) Draw Bridge crossing Busan Harbor.From this height, … More

#Dreams, #Hope, #Korea, #LovedOnes, #Travel, #War, #WriterSaturday

War Story

On Jeju Island we travel rough backroads on our small bus,bumping along narrowly through perfectly planted fields,row on row of … More

#Korea, #Travel, #War, #WriterMonday

Souls of the Korean War

There are soldiers buried in the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Busanwhose bodies were not returned to their home countries.Examining … More

#Korea, #Travel, #War

Dream of Life

I’ve had this dream before, variations of it, many times.This morning it was my final dream of the night,so right … More

#Death, #FathersandSons, #PoemsFromHawaii, #War, #WriterThursday

Memento Mori

He realized relatively young in life that he would die. That knowledge comes to each of us at a different … More

#life, #PoemsFromHawaii, #War, #WriterSunday

Better Luck

Steel, maybe, lots of steel. Perhaps concrete by the boat-loads. Wood, really, I would rather not use. Impermanence has proved … More

#Luck, #PoemsFromHawaii, #War, #WriterThursday

It Was a Dream

“It’s right there,” he said, pointing to the small break in the tree line, hard to tell from this far … More

#Death, #Fathers, #StoriesfromHawaii, #War, #WriterFriday

Giving up Coffee for Good

At the destruction of the world I sipped coffee that was too hot. Like everyone else, I’ll guess, I didn’t … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #War, #WriterWednesday

Odds Are

It’s best to be born mid-century.I was born in 1954, just a babe in the nuclear age.If you come in … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #War, #WriterMonday

A Veterans’ Cemetery

These stone tablets grow row on row, symmetrically planted concrete flowers blooming in a precisely laid field as far as … More

#PoemsFromHawaii, #War, #WriterWednesday

London/Derry

Our guide seats us on the time worn smooth stones of the ancient wallhuge and never breached defense ringing round … More

#Grief, #Ireland, #Poetry, #Prejudice, #Race, #Travel, #War, #WriterTuesday

Cold Comfort

He fortifies himself against the cold journey ahead,this way too frigid life for a Kaua‘i boy,downing one last long sip … More

#Poetry, #Time, #War, #WriterMonday, Aging
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