[ I Married You Before You Were 25 ]
[ So I Have Loved You For More Than ½ Of The
Years That You Have Been Alive ]
[ So Here We All Sit In Our House ]
[ With More Characters Around You ]
[ Than The Shows Staring Donald Duck & Mickey Mouse ]
[ You’ve Got Me, The Husband & Brenden The Son ]
[ Dani, Asha, Zoey & Marianno Are Also Here To Have Some Fun ]
[ I Know That You Never Wanted A Big To Do ]
[ But This Get Together Has Been Arranged To Celebrate You ]
[ To Celebrate You Turning Fifty Years Young ]
[ So This Is The Main Reason That I Wanted You To Come ]
[ Everywhere You Look You See A Friendly Face ]
[ All Brought Here, To Our Safe Place ]
[ Even Before You Can Blink ]
[ Your Inner Circle Is Bigger Than You Think ]
[ You Have Been The Center Of My World Since We First
Met ]
[ When I First Said ( I LOVE YOU ) ]
[ My Future Was Set ]
[ Here’s To Having Our Good Friends Around ]
[ Here’s To The Best Friends That Can Ever Be Found ]
[ I Hope That This Night Will Be Remembered For A Long
Long Time ]
[ I Hope It Lasts Longer Than Zoey Can Keep Ahold of
A Glass Of Wine ]
[ So Who Should Do The Math ]
[ How Many Glasses Can One Break While They Are Sitting
On The Toilet ]
[ Before Taking A Bath? ]
[ Dani Should Always Feel Right @ Home Here ]
[ But Big M Looks Like He Needs A 6 Pack Of His Favorite
Imported Beer ]
[ Zoey & Marianno Are Taking The Gloves Off Again ]
[ When Did It Start? ]
[ Where Will It End? ]
[ Zoey Is About To Split Her Pants ]
[ This Was All Put Together In Two Days ]
[ By Taking The Biggest Chance ]
[ Chances That All Of The Personalities Would Mesh Would
Be The Wish ]
[ So Who Gets Drunk BEFORE They Fish? ]
[ Now Big M Is Trying To Get Brenden To Drink ]
[ Would That Be A Good Idea? ]
[ Hmmm, Let Me Think? ]
[ How Many Fingers Were Really Up There ]
[ Z? ]
[ That Was Not Really Fair ]
[ For Me, To See ]
[ Oh, Marianno Is Going To Say ( OUCH ) ]
[ As He Has An Uncomfortable Sleep, On Our Couch ]
[ We Need To Do This Again For A Pizza Night ]
[ Where We All Get Loaded On Carbs Until There Is No More
Pizza In Sight ]
[ Give Asha A Cupcake Just For Kicks ]
[ Give Dani A Cupcake & Watch Her Lick ]
[ I Think The Night Was Pulled Off Without A Hitch ]
[ Now We Have To Listen To Brenden Moan & Bitch ]
[ He Is Not Going To Ruin This Occasion With His Bad
Attitude ]
[ Or I Will Get Involved & Ruin His Mood ]
[ I Will Continue To Surround Myself With Those That I Love ]
[ When I Look Out @ All Six Of You ]
[ I Thank The Man Above ]
~ 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.
(406)▪︎[ How Do People Feel? … 5•12•2021 ]
[ Do People Really Feel Blue ]
[ When People Do Not Come Through? ]
[ How Really Dependable Are Those That Are Close? ]
[ More Dependable Than Most? ]
[ How Good Would You Had Been If You Chose ]
[ To Play Host? ]
[ Most People Do Not Choose ]
[ When They Have Nothing To Win ]
[ But Everything To Lose ]
[ Do People Not Come Through For Specific Reasons? ]
[ Does It All Depend On If Hell Completely Freezes? ]
[ Some People Are Not Reliable For The Hell Of It ]
[ They Just Do Not Really Give A Shit ]
[ I Wish Those Kinds Of People Would Have To Wear
A Tag ]
[ That Says Exactly That ]
[ It Would Cause So Much Less Strife ]
[ In Life ]
[ They Could All Be Rounded Up & Packed Into A Room ]
[ Then Let Them Fume ]
[ Are Those That Are Close, There For A Specific Reason? ]
[ Are Some Only There During The College Football Season? ]
[ My Favorite College Football Watching Buddy Turns
Out To Be My Wife ]
[ Some Of Her Reactions Should Be Shown During The
Half-Time Highlights ]
[ She Has Her College Football Team To Root For & I
Have Mine ]
[ & That Suits Us Just Fine ]
[ Dependable People Are So Difficult To Find ]
[ They Do Not Even Need To Be Of The Like Mind ]
[ Definitely Not The Opposite Thinking ]
[ About Drinking ]
[ I Want People Stay Alive ]
[ When They Drive ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(401)▪︎[ Whatever & Whenever … 5•10•2021 ]
[ Why Do My Ears Hurt When I Walk My Car Home? ]
[ It Is Like My Hands Go Dizzy From The Loud Honks Waving From
The Guy Floating On The Picnic Merry-Go-Round ]
[ Why Do They Feel So Quiet? ]
[ Why Does It Hurt My Bellybutton Everytime I Sneeze? ]
[ Pepper Does That To Me When I Am Cold, Sitting On My
Shower Couch ]
[ I Have Seen It Both Ways × 4 ]
[ Why Doesn’t Blue, Yellow Or Pink Start With An ( S )? ]
[ ( OKAY ) Is Not A Dressed Up Answer ]
[ Maybe Because They Are No Longer Sold In Pairs ]
[ Now If They Were Sold In The Condiments Section @ Disneyland,
They Would Not ]
[ What Is Yours? ]
[ Orange Is The New Vegetable ]
[ Mine, Was Too + 5 =3 ]
[ I Agreed To That Objection When I Yawned, About It 2 Weeks
Ago ]
[ Speaking Of Blue, Why Are Tennis Shoes Like They Are? ]
[ But I Don’t Agree With The Soup That You Spoke ]
[ @ Times It Itches Like You Just Shoot From Your Pocket ] [ Really? ]
[ With All Of That, I Have Not Gone Under? ]
[ That Does Not Make Two Cents ]
[ I Think You Should ]
[ Again & Again, Like I Said ( HEY! ) Next Week ]
[ Betsy Ross Wanted To Sew Circles In The Flag, But She Got
Tackled Before She Could Eat ]
[ That Did Not Sound Fair Before The Sun Came Up ]
[ Does Purple Really Smell Like Chicken? ]
[ If You Took The Number 27, Please Put It Back ]
[ When Does 4 + 7 = 9? ]
[ Right Then ]
[ I Thought Only Green Did That In March ]
[ Speaking Of March … ]
[ Well? ]
[ If My Watch Had Clouds In The Water, How Much Time Did You
Save? ]
[ Try It Yesterday, It Really Does Make You Giggle ]
[ Because There Are Bubbles @ The Beginning ]
[ If It Happened Next Year, It Would Never, Ever Taste Like That ]
[ But Don’t Take The Apple Cake Out Of My Blender, Yet ]
[ I Will Never Get It ]
[ Because It Only Triangulates Twice In That Lady’s Life ]
[ It Won’t Be Before The Moon Sets ]
[ Did You Know That Grass Has Not Only Been The Color
Green? ]
[ It Has Been … ]
[ Only On Days That Rhyme With Orange ]
[ My Teddy Bear Just Yelled @ You ]
[ Umbrellas Do Not Help You Tan ]
[ But Banana’s Do Float In Jello ]
[ Only The Rainbow Kind ]
[ When Jack & Jill Went For Water, Why Didn’t They Just Turn The
Oven On? ]
[ Did You Know That The Three Bears Only Drank Coffee? ]
[ Black With Sugar, Cream & Whipped Cream ]
[ When Humpty Fell Was He Then Sunny Side Up? ]
[ Why Didn’t Little Red Riding Hood Or Little Bo Peep Ever Wear
Underwear? ]
[ Both Of Them Wore Men’s Boxers ]
[ How Come Chocolate Is Red When You Sneeze On It? ]
[ When The Pied Piper Had All Of Those Mice Following Him There
Was No Sign Of His Pet Chicken Anywhere Around ]
[ Why Was That? ]
[ The Mice Eventually Deciduated From The Piper Because He
Would Not Ever Play Jazz ]
[ Did Jack Run Away From Jill Because He Was Jealous? ]
[ Jill Had A Thing For The JOLLY GREEN GIANT ]
[ Anatomically Speaking, He Knew That He Would Not Ever
Measure Up ]
[ I Have Never Seen Anybody Sing In The Rain ]
[ I Am Not Wearing Any Panty Hose Right Now ]
[ I Felt That You Should Know ]
[ Did You Know That Little Jack Horner Was Lactose Intolerant? ] [ I Trust You On That One ]
[ Why Couldn’t The Jolly Green Giant Cross-Fit? ]
[ Was It Because He Lost His Phone? ]
[ The Big Bad Wolf Had Horrendous Smelling Hands & He Has
A CBD GUMMIES Business ]
[ The Three Little Pigs Built Their Three Houses Using Non-Union
Workers ]
[ I Saw Outside Of A Magazine That The Other Year That Some
Elephants Are Allergic To Peanut Butter & Banana Jelly Ritz
Crackers ]
[ It Is Because Of The Smell Of The Vanilla Bean ]
[ @ Times They Feel Fuzzy ]
[ Fuzzy Is A Funny Word ]
[ Fuzzy Is Not Just A Word, It Is A Funny Feeling ]
[ Right? ]
[ Well I Guess This Should Be The Beginning & I You Can Have
Two Of Them ]
[ This Was Sent With Much Love To Try To Make You Smile In
Such A Turbulent & Deciduous Time ]
[ Okay … Good Talk ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(393)▪︎[ A Lonely Boy … 5•8•2021 ]
[ This Is For That One, Sad Boy ]
[ Living Lonely, Without Any Toys ]
[ When You Look In Your Closet, For Some Fun ]
[ You Don’t Find, A Single One ]
[ They Were Taken From You, About Two Years Ago ]
[ For Reasons That You Still, Don’t Know ]
[ One Day They Were Here & The Next Day They Were Gone ]
[ You Don’t Remember What You Did, That Was So Wrong ]
[ To Have Them Taken, When You Were Not There ]
[ & If You Were Asked, You Would Have Gladly Shared ]
[ That Day, Plays Through Your Mind ]
[ Time, After Time ]
[ You Went Down The Street, To The Park ]
[ To Play With Your Friends ]
[ & You Made It Home, Before Dark ]
[ Do You Go To Your Mom Or Dad & Ask ( WHY? ) ]
[ Is It Even, Worth Another Try? ]
[ You Still Have Welts ]
[ From The Last Time, That Your Dad Got Mad & Used His Belt ]
[ You Never Thought ]
[ That He Was Ever Going To Stop ]
[ All Because You Drank A Pop ]
[ Without Your Dad’s Permission ]
[ After Your Admission ]
[ Were The Toys Being Taken Because Of That? ]
[ Being Taken Because Of That One Bad Act? ]
[ Or Was It Because Of The Bank, That You & Your Four
Friends Robbed Two Years Ago, Last May ]
[ You & Your Little Group Of Friends, Just Wanted To Get Paid ]
[ You All Got The Cash ]
[ By Going In & Out, Really Fast ]
[ But Then Your Dad, Caught A View ]
[ Of That Evenings News ]
[ After Stashing Some In The Floor & In A Crawl Space, In The
Hall ]
[ Your Dad Said That He Wanted It All ]
[ Or He Would Make A Call ]
[ So You Had To Give It To Him ]
[ But You Kept What You Bundled Up & Hid In The Wall ]
[ He Had No Clue ]
[ & Neither Did You ]
[ Know That The Story Would Twist ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(395)▪︎[ Whatever It Takes … 5•9•2021 ]
[ Every Morning When I Wake ]
[ I Have To Take ]
[ 3 Tylenol For My Pounding Headache ]
[ Because I Am Still Missing You ]
[ & All The Things That We Used To Do ]
[ One Of My Biggest Mistakes ]
[ Was Letting You Walk ]
[ Because All I Do Now, Is Ache ]
[ If I’m Too Late ]
[ With What I’ve Said ]
[ Please Tell Me What I’m Supposed To Say? ]
[ How Come ]
[ I Feel So Numb? ]
[ Is This Real? ]
[ Is This How I Will Always Feel? ]
[ @ Times I Have Thought So Loud All The Speakers In My
Head Have Blown ]
[ Worried All The Time, Of The Unknown ]
[ All Of The Alcohol ]
[ & Adderall ]
[ Should Have Burned Up By Now ]
[ If Time Is Not The Answer ]
[ I Don’t Know How ]
[ Because Of All Of The Therapy Sessions ]
[ My Mind Is Filled With Too Many Questions ]
[ I Don’t Think It Is Up To You ]
[ I Will Cry, If I Want To ]
[ Conscience ]
[ This ]
[ I Am Jealous Of Others Friends ]
[ Because They Come Out & Jump In ]
[ I Can Never Measure Up To What I Was ]
[ I Can’t Compare Myself To What Another Man Does ]
[ Was All Of This Said ( JUST BECAUSE )? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(392)▪︎[ It Was Not A Mistake … 5•7•2021 ]
[ When You Go To This Stranger’s Door ]
[ Who Are You Looking For? ]
[ Will They Be Glad That You Came? ]
[ When You Go There ]
[ Are You Searching For Her Name? ]
[ You Have Walked Through This World With Her Being Nameless? ]
[ She Is Blameless ]
[ For Not Being In My Sight ]
[ For Not Helping Me Do What Is Wrong Or Right ]
[ When You Seem To See Something That Looks Familiar ]
[ Do You Get Excited Like When You Ride A Rollercoaster? ]
[ The Kind Where The Thrills Only Get Bigger? ]
[ When The Wind Whistles Through Your Hair ]
[ & Your Arms Wave From Here ]
[ To Over There ]
[ When Nobody Comes ]
[ Because Of Your Knocking ]
[ Does It Make You Feel Numb? ]
[ & Starts You Walking? ]
[ You Really Felt That Was A Good Lead ]
[ You Really Thought That Someone Was Doing A Good
Deed ]
[ By Pointing You, In This Direction ]
[ You Look @ Your Note ]
[ To Make Any Corrections ]
[ They Were Sure ]
[ That You Would Find Her ]
[ There ]
[ They Didn’t Act Like They Were Doing A Dare ]
[ Then Had To Share ]
[ You Stand On The Sidewalk In A Daze ]
[ You Have Been Walking For Days ]
[ Your Mind Is In A Haze ]
[ You Start To Tear Up & Clear Your Throat ]
[ You Look Again @ What You Wrote ]
[ You Get Up The Courage To Go Back & Try Again ]
[ This Time The Door Opens ]
[ & A Woman Politely Asks You In ]
[ The Alarm Clock Startles You Awake ]
[ Was Everything In Your Dream Fake? ]
[ No, Because When You Look Down @ Your Bed ]
[ You See The Dark Hair On Her Head ]
[ Aren’t You Glad That You Went Back? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(391)▪︎[ Watch What They Do … 5•6•2021 ]
[ Rachel Says That You Must Watch What They Do,
Not What They Say ]
[ Life Is In Constant Motion ]
[ It Is Not A Shakspearian Play ]
[ There Are No Dress Rehearsals ]
[ There Are No Role Reversals ]
[ Some People Feel That They Are Walking On A Treadmill ]
[ Oftentimes Going Backwards Against Their Will ]
[ Getting Nowhere Fast ]
[ Then Not Remembering A Minute From Their Past ]
[ When They Feel That Their Lives Have No Meaning ]
[ They Become Dependent On Others ]
[ So They Start Leaning ]
[ Leaning On Others So They Would Not Have To Do
It Themselves ]
[ Even Something Simple Like Screwing In Some Shelves ]
[ They Do Not Believe In Raising The Bar ]
[ If They Were Asked To Walk A Mile ]
[ They Would Get There In Their Car ]
[ Classic Underachievers ]
[ Classic Non-Believers ]
[ That Is Too Bad ]
[ For Some ]
[ Because That Makes People Mad ]
[ Until They Go Numb ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(390)▪︎[ Absent-Minded … 5•6•2021 ]
[ Sometimes I Forget & Leave The House With Just A Thought
On My Mind ]
[ For Some Reason I Thought That I Forgot To Do Something
Of The Important Kind ]
[ The Air Felt Kind Of Breezy ]
[ As My Stride Seemed So Easy ]
[ When I Was In The Sunlight ]
[ The Sun Felt So Nice ]
[ & Wouldn’t You Know ]
[ The Sun Gave Me A Nice Glow ]
[ The Sun Feels So Warm On My Skin ]
[ All I Needed Was A Soda & A Blueberry Muffin ]
[ I Stood On The Corner Trying To Catch The Bus ]
[ When I Got On ]
[ I Wanted To Find A Seat Without Creating A Fuss ]
[ I Did Feel That This One Young Lady Was Staring ]
[ I Wanted To Look Back @ Her ]
[ Without Her Thinking That I Was Glaring ]
[ Since I Wasn’t Wearing My Regular Cargo Shorts
I Had To Carry Everything In My Two Hands ]
[ It Was Kind Of Cold When The Driver Turned On The Fans ]
[ My Stop Was Coming Up & Everyone Could Tell How Excited
I Could Get ]
[ Especially The Girl That I Felt ]
[ That I Just Met ]
[ As I Stood There Awhile ]
[ I Looked @ The Girl & Gave Her My Best Smile ]
[ Then I’ll Be Damned ]
[ She Reached Out & Wrote Her Phone Number On The
Back Of My Hand ]
[ Everyone Could See ]
[ That I Was As Happy As I Could Be ]
[ I Ran My Errands As Fast As I Could ]
[ I Thought That I Shouldn’t Have Gone All Over Town ]
[ But I Actually Knew I Would ]
[ All Day It Felt Like It Was Such A Thrill ]
[ To Walk Around ]
[ But As The Sun Set I Started To Get A Chill ]
[ Maybe I Need To Write Myself A Note ]
[ That The Next Time That I Go Out Like This ]
[ I Will Need To Bring A Coat ]
[ I Finally Got Home & Walked Through The Door ]
[ I Thought That This Was So Much Fun ]
[ I Should Do This More ]
[ & Then It Became As Obvious As The Tip Of My Nose ]
[ The One Thing That I Forgot ]
[ Was … To Wear Some Clothes ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(389)▪︎[ My Story … 5•5•2021 ]
[ Look Into My Eyes, Do You See My Story? ]
[ I Am Not Looking For Glory ]
[ What You Might See ]
[ Could Fill Your Thoughts With Worry ]
[ Do You Worry Because Of What You See? ]
[ Or Do You Show Worry For Me? ]
[ I, Instead ]
[ Worry About What Lay’s Ahead ]
[ Will Those That Say ]
[ Want To Find A Way ]
[ To Stand Beside Me, When Things Do Not Look So
Good ]
[ But They Left, Because They Thought That Their Actions &
Words Were Not Understood ]
[ How Can I Understand When Someone Just Up & Leaves? ]
[ What Is There To Believe? ]
[ They Up & Broke Their Word ]
[ Which They Gave Many Moons Ago ]
[ @ Least That Is What I Heard ]
[ & I Hear Very Well ]
[ Does Any Of This Ring A Bell? ]
[ If You Do, Please Tell ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(379)▪︎[ No Stereotyping Here! … 5•1•2021 ]
[ Friends Can Come In All Shapes & Sizes ]
[ Enemies Can Wear Masks ]
[ & Have All Very Different Disguises ]
[ A Friend Could Look All Straight Laced ]
[ & Fine ]
[ An Enemy Can Say Things To Your Face ]
[ As They Cross Your Personal Line ]
[ What Drags You Through Hell ]
[ Are The Times When You Are Unable To Tell ]
[ The Good From The Bad ]
[ The Worst Of The Sad ]
[ The Chameleons Are The Hardest To Deal With ]
[ They Could Be Plyable Or Stiff ]
[ It Just Depends On The Guy ]
[ & If It Is A Day Of The Week That Ends With ( Y ) ]
[ Why Is Not The Question That They Want To Be Asked ]
[ Chameleons Don’t Like To Be Un-Masked ]
[ Don’t Even Bring To The Table That Stupid Saying That Blood
Means They Are Family ]
[ Not From What I See ]
[ Growing In My Crooked Family Tree ]
[ Family, Like Friends, Do Not Have To Be Blood Related
By Any Means ]
[ Some Blood Related People Don’t Care About Others
It Seems ]
[ Family Can Actually Be Picked Throughout Your Life ]
[ Some People Fit Just Right ]
[ While Others Are So Negative ]
[ They Try To Turn Out The Light ]
[ & Extinguish Your Bright Flame ]
[ They Will Find Out The Effort Is Futile ]
[ Because It Has Never Been Man Made ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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