A ][° 204 °][ APPRECIATE WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU …
3•11•2021 ]
[ It Seems To Be So Easy To Take For Granted What
& Who Is In Right In Front Of Your Eyes ]
[ Most Of The Time It & Who Is There Is Way More
Important Than What Money Buys ]
[ A Person That Loves You Cannot Be Bought ]
[ But Are You Always Thankful For Who Is In That Spot? ]
[ That All Important Person On Your Right ]
[ The One That You Worry About When They Are No
Longer In Your Sight ]
[ Taking That Person For Granted Is So Easy To Do ]
[ Especially When They Are Always Around You ]
[ Because They Always Are ]
[ It Catches You Way Off Balance When You Realize That
You Have Drifted So Far ]
[ Are You Always Saying ( NO ) To Their Requests Every
Day? ]
[ Because That Is Just What You Always Say? ]
[ Have You Ever Gone Out On A Limb ]
[ For Him? ]
[ Have You Ever Said ( SURE ) ]
[ To Her? ]
[ You Tend To Dismiss ]
[ More Than You Miss ]
[ Those Questions Of His ]
[ It Is Never Too Late To Show Some Appreciation &
Gratitude ]
[ Instead Of Apprehension ]
[ & Attitude ]
[ When The Gratitude Is There It Is A ( YES ) ]
[ When It Is Not There Things Become A Mess ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Author: rdvoe165
I Am A 62yrs Young Man, That Just Enjoys Writing Short Poetic Stories From My Thoughts. I Hope That You Enjoy Them As Much As I Do Writing Them.
(284)▪︎[ The Odd Child … 4•5•2021 ]
[ Are You The One Child Whose Life Seems Full
Of Disappointments? ]
[ Full Of Comments ]
[ & Other People’s Statements? ]
[ Saying So Many Lies ]
[ Talking About Your Feet & Then Your Eyes ]
[ Why Are There So Many Critics? ]
[ Cynics? ]
[ Every Body Who Has A Belly Button ]
[ Has An Opinion ]
[ They Are About As Welcomed As The Tears You Get
From Cutting An Onion ]
[ Uncontrollable & Constant ]
[ Wishing That They Would Keep Their Comments ]
[ In Their Mind ]
[ Sometimes It Up To You To Remind ]
[ Them That You Find ]
[ That What They Have Been Saying Is Not Very Kind ]
[ Some People Do Not Care If They Constantly Offend ]
[ They Are The Ones That Are So Difficult To Defend ]
[ Those Are The One’s That You Show Them The Gate ]
[ & Even Because They Just Ate ]
[ You Don’t Have To Be Polite & Wait ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(300)▪︎[ Who Are They … 4•10•2021 ]
[ Do You Ever Really Know That One Person That You
Love? ]
[ That One Person That You Are Always Thinking Of? ]
[ During Those Nights Where You Are Laying There Dreaming ]
[ Is He In The Next Room Scheming? ]
[ You Might Have Thoughts That Are Happy & Kind ]
[ But He Is Taking Several Medications To Try To Alter
His Evil Mind ]
[ You Really Do Not Know Who You’ve Got ]
[ Living With You & Your Kids In Your House ]
[ He Is Trying To Suppress His Homicidal Thoughts ]
[ That He Has About You, His Spouse ]
[ Ever Since He Became Your Groom ]
[ You Felt Uneasy That He Had No Explanation Or Reasons ]
[ On Why He Had To Have A Knife & Gun In Each Room ]
[ Oftentimes You Feel Uneasy When He Is On The Phone &
There Are Periods Of Uncomfortable Silence ]
[ He Talks Alot About His Past ]
[ When He Was Known To Be Very Violent ]
[ But He Completed His Full Year Of Anger Management
Classes That Were Court Ordered ]
[ You Think That You Should Hang Onto Those Heated
Phone Calls With Him, That You Previously Recorded? ]
[ It Would Cause Unneeded Problems ]
[ If He Would Ever Find Them ]
[ He Seemed To Be So Passionate ]
[ When You Two First Met ]
[ Do You Ever Know Him When His Mind Shifts To
The Dark Side? ]
[ He Says That He Won’t Seek Counseling ]
[ Because He Has, Too Much Pride ]
[ When You Have So Much Doubt ]
[ Do You Ever Worry About ]
[ How This Is Going To Play Out? ]
[ It Has Me Worried Since I Have Not Talked With You In Over
A Week ]
[ I Don’t Want To Go Over To Your House ]
[ & Look Down By The Creek ]
[ How Come Nobody Could Ever See? ]
[ This Tragedy? ]
[ Coming? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(428)▪︎[ Your Mind … 5•21•2021 ]
[ Where Is Your Mind? ]
[ Is It Lost? ]
[ Or Easy To Find? ]
[ What Has Made Your Head Hazy? ]
[ Is There Something That Is Driving You Crazy? ]
[ You Have Doubt ]
[ That You Can Figure This Out ]
[ Sometimes You Need To Bring Light Into The Room ]
[ The Darkness Makes Everything Seem Like Gloom & Doom ]
[ Light Into Your Eyes Means Light To The Brain ]
[ No More Days Of Cloudy With Rain ]
[ More Days In The Dark ]
[ Means More Clouds Trying To Make Their Mark ]
[ Clouds Float In Your Brain, Then Quietly & Slowly Float
Away ]
[ Some Clouds Float In & Then Stay ]
[ You Never Get To Pick ]
[ The One’s That Stick ]
[ It Is Usually Out Of The Norm ]
[ For Clouds To Turn Into Storms ]
[ Storms That May Cause Tornado Twisters Or Hurricanes ]
[ Those Are The Ones That Turns Your Blood Ice
Cold ]
[ As It Tries To Pump Through Your Veins ]
[ Storms Don’t Usually Affect Just You ]
[ Because It Seems That Is Not What They Are There To Do ]
[ Thunder & Lightning ]
[ Causing Tremendous Verbal Fighting ]
[ Usually With That One Person That You Love ]
[ The One That You Should Treat Like A Fragile White Dove ]
[ But Instead You Treat Them Like An Unwanted Crow ]
[ As You Look Around For Something To Throw ]
[ Calmer Heads Will Finally Prevail ]
[ Right Before The Storm Throws In Hail ]
[ The Clouds Eventually Float All Of The Way Through The
Sub-Conscience Part Of Your Brain ]
[ Ending Your Feeling Of Being A Runaway Train ]
[ Calm Settles In As You Realize That The Clouds Never
Stop ]
[ Or Ever Pop ]
[ So You Just Go On With Your Life, Waiting For The Next One ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(290)▪︎[ Get Back Up … 4•6•2021 ]
[ Some Say That When You Get Knocked Down ]
[ You Need To Get Back Up ]
[ So You Can Go & Own The Town ]
[ Owning The Town Is A Huge Responsibility ]
[ But Success ]
[ Is A Possibility ]
[ Put Your Nose To The Grindstone ]
[ Just Know That You Might Be Doing Most Of This
On Your Own ]
[ Work Through The Days When The Silence Gets
So Loud ]
[ You Are Alone In The Center Of An Empty Room ]
[ But It Feels Like You Are Being Smothered ]
[ By The Over Flowing Crowd ]
[ You Are Looking For A Way ]
[ To Get Away ]
[ Even For A Day ]
[ You Carry The World’s Problems Unevenly On Your
Broad Shoulders ]
[ As The Stress Tries To Break You ]
[ You Find That Small Rocks Turn Into Really Large
Boulders ]
[ When Can You Take ]
[ A Break? ]
[ Away From Your Mistakes? ]
[ Especially ]
[ & Specifically ]
[ The Large Ones That Are Forever In Your Memory Bank ]
[ The Ones That You Wish, You Never Made ]
[ Day In & Day Out ]
[ You Constantly Live With Doubt ]
[ Will You Make These Mistakes Again? ]
[ If So ]
[ Then, When? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(323)▪︎[ Start New … 4•18•2021 ]
[ Run Away, Run Away ]
[ But Don’t Just Stay ]
[ Away For Only One Day ]
[ Pack Your Belongings In Five Grocery Bags ]
[ & Remind Yourself That You Won’t Be Going
Back ]
[ Once You Make Your Break ]
[ Never Return ]
[ To That Person That Just Takes ]
[ They Broke Your Heart ]
[ While Trying To Break You Down From The Very Start ]
[ It Is Time To Start Something New ]
[ Move To A Place Where The Water Is Crystal Blue ]
[ Go To The Beach & Walk Without Any Shoes On In The
Cool Sand ]
[ How Do You Feel Without Any Demands? ]
[ No One Around To Gives Commands ]
[ You Spend The First Night Of Many To Come ]
[ Surrounded By Quiet ]
[ Nobody Around To Tell You That You Are Dumb ]
[ You Close Your Eyes Not Hearing A Peep ]
[ For The First Time Since Childhood ]
[ You Got 10 Hours Of Uninterrupted Sleep ]
[ What Do You Say? ]
[ What Will You Do Today? ]
[ You Notice That For The First Time Since You Were A Child ]
[ You Are Letting Your Imagination Go Wild ]
[ You Have Been Suppressed For So Long ]
[ You Have Convinced Yourself ]
[ That Free Thinking Was Wrong ]
[ You Decide That This Is Going To Take Some Undoing ]
[ You Need To Teach Yourself ]
[ A Whole Different Technique Of Self-Soothing ]
[ How Far Must You Run? ]
[ During Your Deepest, Darkest, Depressing Times ]
[ Aren’t You Glad That You Sold Your Guns? ]
[ Some People Say That Statistics Show That Most
Of The Time When There Are Guns In The House ]
[ They Can End Up In Their Owners Mouth ]
[ Those Are The Days That You Want To Leave In The Rearview
Mirror ]
[ Those Are The Voices That You No Longer Want To Hear ]
[ The Only Way To A Healthier Mind ]
[ Is To Erase The Memories That You Don’t Want To Rewind ]
[ ( TAKE SHERPA STEPS ), Can Apply In So Many Situations In Life ]
[ That Saying Is Never Boxed In By Lines ]
[ Find & Build A Whole New Network Of People To Create
Your Inner Circle ]
[ Teach Them New Card Games ]
[ & Introduce Them To A Fun Game Called ( QUIRCLE ) ]
[ Start New & Start Over ]
[ Don’t Feel Defind By Your Next Lover ]
[ Take This As An Obvious Cue ]
[ Start To Live Your Life For One Person … You ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(322)▪︎[ Discarded Like A Weed … 4•18•2021 ]
[ Sometimes I Feel That I Wake Up Reaching For
Dreams ]
[ & I Just Grab Air It Seems ]
[ I Thought That Dreaming Was Supposed To Stop
Once You Wake ]
[ Sometimes I Feel That Some Of My Dreams Are So
Fragile They Could Break ]
[ If I Move ]
[ I Want Dreams That Will Help Me Improve ]
[ My Presence, My Tomorrow, My Fututre Life ]
[ What Will That Be? ]
[ Why Do I Always Seem To Be Chasing That Shining
Light? ]
[ Could It Be The Light Of An Oncoming Train? ]
[ Or Is It Something That Will Do Damage To My Fragile
Brain? ]
[ I Have Already Had Enough Trauma To Last A Lifetime ]
[ I Would Be Rich Years Ago, If I Was Given A Dime ]
[ For Each Time ]
[ Where I Was Slammed Into A Wall ]
[ Where Someone Made Fun Of Me For Not Being Tall ]
[ Those Were All Punches To My Gut ]
[ But … ]
[ I Got Up & Asked ( YOU WERE TRYING TO DO WHAT? ]
[ Trauma To The Brain & To The Soul ]
[ Both Seem To Keep Me From Feeling Whole ]
[ I Circle Myself With A Few Good People Out Of A Crowd ]
[ They Are Able To Keep Me Grounded ]
[ When My Thoughts Are In The Clouds ]
[ They Cover My Ears When My Thoughts ]
[ Become Too Loud ]
[ Just A Few Is All That I Need ]
[ They Nurtured Me Into Blooming Like A Flower ]
[ When Others Discarded Me Like A Weed ]
[ I Love Those ]
[ Who Chose ]
[ To Remain Close ]
[ Thank You Means Much More Than Two Words ]
[ I Tell My Friends To Look Beyond What They’ve Heard ]
[ & See With Their Eyes ]
[ That I Am Much Different Than Those Ordinary Guys ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(612)▪︎[ Bend, Don’t Break … 7•7•2020 ]
A[ Sometimes To Survive In Life, You Have To Have The Attitude
Of ( WHATEVER IT TAKES ) ]
[ Your Mind Can’t Get The Mental Shakes ]
[ But How Do You Continue To Stay Strong ]
[ In A World ]
[ Where There Is So Much Wrong? ]
[ Is Strength Only In The Mind Of The User? ]
[ Is Violence Only In The Hand Of The Abuser? ]
[ Mind Over Matter Is Something People Say ]
[ When You Mind ]
[ It Doesn’t Matter In Its Own Special Way ]
[ Feeling Pain ]
[ Does Not Have To Make You Feel Insane ]
[ In The Brain ]
[ Sometimes The Blame ]
[ Can Only Be Its Name ]
[ & When That Is Tame ]
[ There Should Be No Shame ]
[ In How You Feel ]
[ With That Deal ]
[ But Only If The Feelings Are Real ]
[ Dealing With The Feelings Is The Real Catch ]
[ They Must Be Under Control ]
[ Before New Problems Hatch ]
[ Out Of Cracked Eggs ]
[ Look @ Them Head On ]
[ Before They Grow Legs ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(611)▪︎[ What Inspires … 7•6•2020 ]
[ Someone Once Said That True Focus Lies Between Serenity
& Rage ]
[ Does That Mean You Must Independently ]
[ Keep Your Heart Locked Up In A Cage? ]
[ Or Lock ]
[ It Up In A Box? ]
[ Does True Focus Get Us Through The Hurt & Pain? ]
[ When You Put Yourself Out There ]
[ What Are You Looking To Gain? ]
[ Hurt & Pain Makes Me Go Inside ]
[ My Mind ]
[ Sometimes I Feel The Need To To Hide ]
[ The Button That Says Rewind ]
[ Rewind & Remind Makes Me Go Through The Pain ]
[ Again & Again ]
[ & That Is About As Fun ]
[ As Saying You’re Done ]
[ & Then Going Out For A Run ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(604)▪︎[ Everything Looks Nice … 7•4•2020 ]
[ One Person Said ( NO AMOUNT OF MONEY EVER BOUGHT
A SECOND OF TIME ) ]
[ Does That Mean Every Hour Lost ]
[ Would Not Even Cost You A Dime? ]
[ What About An Hour Wasted On Frivolous Things? ]
[ Does That Make Time & Money ]
[ Be Attached By Thin Strings? ]
[ One Can’t Buy The Other ]
[ & One Cannot Buy Another ]
[ Another Second, Hour Or Day ]
[ When Time Has Been Wasted ]
[ Things Have A Tendency To Stay ]
[ That Way ]
[ Time & Money Would Be In A Wasted Heap ]
[ Just Tossed Aside ]
[ Because You Think That Time Is Cheap ]
[ Time Cannot Be Bought ]
[ But Money Can Buy A Clock ]
[ Where You Can Watch Time Fly By ]
[ The Time That Money Cannot Buy ]
[ Is Their A Vast Difference Between Wasted Time & A Wasted
Dollar? ]
[ Wasted Time May Not Even Get A Whisper ]
[ But Wasting Money Gets A Loud Hollar ]
[ One Dollar Or Many ]
[ Nobody Ever Wants To Waste A Penny ]
[ But A Penny Saved, Is A Penny Earned ]
[ If Time Is Money ]
[ Do You Ever Want The Clock To Be Turned ]
[ Backward In A Counter Clock Motion ]
[ If Timed Stood Still ]
[ Would It Fall Into The Ocean? ]
[ To Never Be Recovered Again ]
[ But If Found ]
[ Would That Be When Time Begins? ]
[ Begin Or Not ]
[ We All Know That Time Cannot Be Bought ]
[ Or Was That The Point That You Forgot? ]
[ Then Always Be Thankful For Whatever You’ve Got ]
[ Out Of Life ]
[ Because When You Forgot But Then Turned On The Light ]
[ Don’t You Think That Everything Looks Twice ]
[ As Nice? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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