[ A ][° 183 °][ WHAT SAYS THE SIGNS? … 3•1•2021 ]
[ If A Man Has Never Discovered Something That
He Would Die For ]
[ He Isn’t Fit To Live ]
[ It Is A Shame That He Would Never Open His Own Front
Door ]
[ To Give ]
[ To A Stranger, A Friend Or A Family Member ]
[ He Has Not Done Anything Good Enough To Remember ]
[ You Either Die For Something ]
[ Or Die For Nothing ]
[ Dieing Is Not Always The End Game ]
[ Just Like All Lives Are Not The Same ]
[ Are You Only Good ]
[ When You Are @ Peace With Yourself ]
[ Not When You Are Misunderstood ]
[ By Everyone Else ]
[ Sometimes We Make Our Own Heaven & Hell While
We Are Still Alive On This Earth ]
[ Because We Have Been Hurting People Since Our Birth ]
[ The Heaven We Make Is When We Make Others Happy & Smile ]
[ One Thing About Happiness ]
[ It Is Short Lived & Fragile ]
[ Hate Is Like A Really Heavy Chain & Lock Around
Your Neck ]
[ Whenever Hate Gets Loose & Unchecked ]
[ It Ages Your Face ]
[ & Ruins Your Name All Over The Place ]
[ Where You Once Were Accepted ]
[ Now You Are A Disgrace ]
[ Then You Will Figure Out Really Quick That Money
Can’t Buy You Love ]
[ You Should Always Try To Soar Like An Eagle ]
[ Instead Of Flying Low Like Dove ]
[ Money Sometimes Causes People Pain ]
[ Because They Can’t Keep Up With All The People That
Have Latched Onto People ]
[ That Are Only There For Financial Gain ]
[ Blank Faces With Different Names ]
[ But The ( WANT ) Is Always The Same ]
[ When The Room Is Empty The Silence Can Be Deafening ]
[ It Does Not Look Like Anyone Is Listening ]
[ Then You Feel That Nobody Has Heard ]
[ A Single Word ]
[ Said Or Written ]
[ Making You Feel Like You Have Been Twice Bitten ]
[ Nobody Hears A Word, Because Nobody Is There ]
[ Everyone Left ]
[ Because They Found That You Do Not Care ]
[ To Share ]
[ Then That Causes You To Question The Whole Idea
About The Hereafter ]
[ Because To Reach It ]
[ Some May Need A Really Tall Ladder ]
[ You Find That The Ones That You Figure Have To Really
Reach ]
[ Are The Loudest One’s Who Preach ]
[ Maybe You Figure Out That It Is Time To Lay Low ]
[ Because Of The Actions Of Others ]
[ That Is What Says So ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ 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.
[ 181 ][ Okay … 3•1•2021 ]
How Do The Words ( RUN ) & ( DONE ) Sound So Much Alike
But Drastically Mean Almost Opposite Things. One
Means To Leave & One Means You Are Finished. How Did
Jack Climb The Beanstalk When He Was Afraid Of Frogs?
Little Red Ridinghood Never Liked The Color Red. She
Was More Into Yellows & Greens. But The Name ( LITTLE
YELLOW RIDINGHOOD ) Just Did Not Flow. The Three Bears
Adopted A Daughter But She Ran Away. If Having A ( BLUE )
Sky Is Good, Why Is ( FEELING BLUE ) Something Depressing?
If There Is ( EMAIL ) Through Your ( GMAIL ) Whatever Happened
To ( FMAIL )? Or Would They Call That ( FAIL MAIL )? How Did Someone Take The Words ( PILL ) & ( LOW ) & Make It Something
Comfortable To Lay Our Heads Down On? Does ( FENCE )
Mean ( DENSE ) Wood? But If It Is Made Of Wiire, What Should
It Be Called? ( WIRED )? How Come The Moon Is Not Always
Full Like The ( SUN )? We Never Call It A ( FULL SUN ). How Is
The Color ( YELLOW ) Bright Like The Sun When The Word Is
( YELL ) & ( OW ). That Sounds Like A Cry For Help To Me.
Kermit The Frog Was A Vegan & A Polygamist, Having Four
Wives Already. Humpty’s Real Name Was Herbert & He Went To
Pieces Because Of A Psychotic Break. So Of Course
All Of The Kings Men Could Not Put Him Back Together
Again Because They Were All Colorblind. But Take The Whole Premise Of That Word. Isn’t Black, White & Gray Actual Colors? So No One Is Actually ( COLOR BLIND ). The Big Bad Wolfe
Always Had A Low Self-Esteem. So That Is Why He Tried To
Blow Down The Houses Of The 3 Pigs. They Always Teased
Him About His Tail By Saying That He DID Have ONE, But
He Could Never GET Some Tail. He Had A Horrible Lisp
That Caused Him To Keep To Himself @ The Bars. Dorothy
Was Actually Running From An Abusive Family Situation.
She Never Wanted To Go Back To Indiana. That Is Where She
Had An Twin Evil Sister That Was A Year Older Than Her & Looks
Nothing Like Her. Superman & Robin Buy Their Thong
Underwear Off Of The Same Website ( UP YOUR CRACK ).
It Sells Fancy Male Underwear, Hiking Books & Really
Good Teriyaki Bat Feet. You Get A Nice Side Helping Of
Potato Salad With Every Order Over $30. Snow White
Always Pimps Out Her Dwarfs. Alfred Was Actually
Batman’s Uncle. Casper Haunts The Minds Of Only 4.87%
Of The Kids. Archie & Charlie Brown Were Actually Lovers But
They Were ( ON THE DOWN LOW ) Chuck Never Wanted Lucy To
Know Because She Was A Really Mean Drunk. Bewitched Always
Wiggled Her Nose Because She Does Too Much ( BOOGER
SUGAR ). Now You Are Up To Date On The 0550hrs.
[ 180 ][ Stumbling & Bumbling … 3•7•2021 ]
[ I Tripped On A Cloud & Fell Eight Miles High ]
[ When I Tell Myself That Things Are Okay ]
[ Am Telling Myself A Lie? ]
[ Okay By What Standards & By What Measure ]
[ Do I Count My Friends & Loved Ones ]
[ Or The Size Of My Stolen Treasure? ]
[ Do I Create My Own Hell When I Cause Someone’s Pain? ]
[ When I See The Light @ The End Of The Tunnel ]
[ Is It A Fast Oncoming Train? ]
[ When I Hope For The Best ]
[ I Prepare For The Worst ]
[ I Try To Get Things Off Of My Chest ]
[ When I Feel Like I Am Cursed ]
[ Being Born Under A Dark Cloud That Was Raining ]
[ Did Not Give Me Much Time For Training ]
[ Training For The Better Things In Life ]
[ & Never Hsd Good Examples To Emulate ]
[ When It Came To How To Be A Good Husband To A Wife ]
[ Does Good Fortune Ever Have A Ceiling That Is
Too High? ]
[ When Someone Compliments Me Are They Telling
A Big Lie? ]
[ I Never Want To Stumble & Fall ]
[ As Far As Some People Are Tall ]
[ So Many Times I Feel All Alone When I Am In A Crowd ]
[ Then The Silence, The Silence ]
[ Can Be So Piercing Loud ]
[ So Much So That I Have To Go Outside ]
[ To Straighten Out The Jumbled Thoughts ]
[ That Are Racing Back & Forth In My Mind ]
[ Oftentimes It Might Stop When I Go To Sleep ]
[ But Even Though My Eyes Might Be Closed ]
[ I Rarely Ever Go In Deep ]
[ I Am All Alone Again As I Try To Navigate This Crooked
Path That I Have Stumbled Upon ]
[ I Would Prefer To Have Less Off Days ]
[ Than I Have On ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 184 ][ What To Do … 3•2•2021 ]
[ Frustration Sets Out All Over The Land ]
[ Whenever This Happens ]
[ Things Seem To Get Out Of Hand ]
[ When The Frustration Rises To The Top ]
[ Everything That Is Going Right ]
[ Comes To An Abrupt Stop ]
[ It Oozes Out Of The Sides, Front & Back ]
[ That Always Means That My Self-Esteem ]
[ Becomes Aware Of An Attack ]
[ A Punch To The Gut Is What Always Happens First ]
[ Then My Body Is Overcome With Thirst ]
[ The Thirst That Only Validation Will Quench ]
[ Something, Anything To Get My Fists To Unclench ]
[ Fists So Tight ]
[ Making My Knuckles Turn White ]
[ How Does Frustration Take Over My Brain? ]
[ It Gets My Thoughts Going So Fast ]
[ They Have The Momentum Of An Oncoming Train ]
[ Then The Dark Clouds Roll In ]
[ Turning The Sky Black ]
[ Right Before The Storm Begins ]
[ The Rain Comes Down Like A Shower ]
[ Completely Dampening All Of My Powers ]
[ Making Me Lose Control Of Each & Every Thought ]
[ Making Me Have Questions ]
[ About Every So-Called Friend That I’ve Got ]
[ Is There Even A Single Person That I Could Always Call? ]
[ Who Could Be That One Person Who Be There ]
[ Anytime I Was Backed Up Against The Wall? ]
[ That One Person Would Be My Best Friend That Lives
In The City ]
[ Of Albany ]
[ She Is The One Person Who Has Never Done Me Wrong ]
[ Over These Last Couple Of Years ]
[ She Has Taught Me How To Be Strong ]
[ She Taught Me How I Can ]
[ Stand Tall In Front Of My Spouse ]
[ She Taught Me How To Be The Man ]
[ Of This House ]
[ & She Calls Me Out ]
[ Whenever I Have Doubt ]
[ Just Thinking Of Her Puts My Frustrationd To Bed ]
[ That Are Inside Of My Head ]
[ Thank You Maria For Teaching Me To Fight ]
[ For Myself & Equality ]
[ When I Don’t Think That Something Isn’t Right ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 278 ][ Enjoy Your Freedom, My Friend … 2•3•2021 ]
[ Have You Ever Met A Person That Was A Good
Christian For Only One Day A Week? ]
[ The Other Six Days She Is A Sinner When She Speaks? ]
[ The Stuff She Does During Those Times, Are Definitely
Not In Her Bible Book ]
[ She Is Not Shy About Anything ]
[ So She Let’s Any Guy Come Over To Take A Look ]
[ Eve Never Wore Clothes, So She Doesn’t Most
Of The Time ]
[ Her Reasoning For Her Wild Ways ]
[ It Is Because She Feels Like She Is In Her Prime ]
[ Growing Up She Lived A Life Of A Little Princess ]
[ She Never Learned How To Live With Less ]
[ She Only Does Excess ]
[ It Seems That The Two Main Words That Is In All
Of Texts ]
[ That Is The Question ( WHO’s NEXT? ) ]
[ It Is Never A ( WHAT? ) ]
[ If Her Father Knew ]
[ He Would Feel Like He Got Punched In The Gut ]
[ Her Transition On Sunday’s Are A 180 ]
[ 6 Days A Week She Really Let’s Go ]
[ But On Sundays ]
[ She Makes This Amazing Transition When She Looks & Acts Like
A Proper, Polite Young Lady ]
[ One Night Of Relaxing With Her Outside On The Deck ]
[ I Asked Her Why During The Six Other Days Of The Week
She Doesn’t Keep Herself In Check? ]
[ She Said That Her Whole Younger Years Was Nothing
But Oppression ]
[ Followed By 6 Of Her Teen Years In A Deep Depression ]
[ She Said That Once She Moved Down South ]
[ She Found That Others Did Not Get Upset When She Opens
Her Mouth ]
[ Whenever Her Father Would Hear Her Voice ]
[ He Would Tell Her To Shut Up That Noise ]
[ She Said That She Came To College To Let Go & Rebel ]
[ That Is Why During Those Six Days, She Does Not
Behave So Well ]
[ She Knows That Whenever Her College Days Are Over
& Done ]
[ That Will Be The End Of Everything That She Considers
To Be Fun ]
[ & To Top It All Off ]
[ Her Father Has Said That She Is Going To Marry His
Best Friends Eldest Son ]
[ I Told Her That I Thought That Pre-Arranged Marriages
Were Way In The Past ]
[ Then I Asked ( DO THEY EVER LAST? ) ]
[ She Got Really Quiet Then Said ( ONCE YOU SAY I DO ) ]
[ ( YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO ) ]
[ ( EVERYTHING YOU ARE TOLD TO DO! ) ]
[ That Made Me Feel Sad For My Friend ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 252 ][ Some Things Are Not Worth It … 3•27•2021 ]
[ Some Say That You Should Live Free Or Die Trying ]
[ But Some Could See ]
[ That Would Lead To A Life Filled With Many Nights Of Worrying
& Crying ]
[ Crying Because You Did Not Want To Fight ]
[ Crying Because You Are Just Trying To Make It Through
Another Night ]
[ The Nights Are The Worst ]
[ Some Nights Feel Like They Are Cursed ]
[ Cursed Because Of The Nightmares They Bring ]
[ Trying To Hide The Scars That Sting ]
[ The Unseen Wounds Hurt You The Most ]
[ & They Are Not From Events Where You Deserve To Boast ]
[ Situations Where The Words ]
[ Heard ]
[ Cut Much Deeper Than A Sharpened Sword ]
[ You Can Never Measure The Depth ]
[ Or The Length ]
[ But All Of The Lies ]
[ Does Increase The Wound’s Size ]
[ Then They Would Feel That All Eyes Would Go In Your
Direction ]
[ Questioning Your Dedication ]
[ That Would Not Be Fair ]
[ That Would Show A Big Lack Of Care ]
[ Care About Your Feelings ]
~ The End ~
[ Auhea kuʻu hoaaloha ]
[ Ke manaʻoʻiʻo nei wau e pono ai e lawe i kēia moʻolelo
i kahi hopena ]
[ Mahalo no ka hoʻoloheʻana i kaʻu mau moʻolelo ]
[ No laila,ʻoiaʻiʻo,ʻo ia ka mea ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[ 245 ][ That $6 Can Go Really Far … 3•23•2021 ]
Where Are You Going? When? Do You Know, Because I Don’t.
Well I Am Not The One That Really Needs To Know. I Am Curious,
But I Am More Curious That You Don’t Know. If You Don’t
Know, Then How Do You Know That You Have To Go There?
Did You Know That Everything Centers Around The Word ( HERE ).
If You Are Going ( THERE ) It Is Basically Coming Here With
The Letter ( T ) Before You Get Here. Now You Can Have Coffee
When You Get Here Too. But To Go From ( THERE ) To ( HERE ) You Have To Have A ( T ). But If You Are Confused & Want To Go
From ( WHERE ) To ( HERE ) You Have To Drop The ( W ). Sometimes The ( W ) Stands For ( WIN ) You Never Want To
Drop A Win Because They Are Hard To Come By. Just Like
Women Are Always Looking For The Big ( O ). That Could Be
Short For Many Things. ( O ) For Oregon, Ohio Or Osh Kosh.
Tear Is A ( T ) Away From ( EAR ). But Who Wants To Cry Tears
In Their Ears? Or Do Your Ears Hear Your Tears? Nobody
Wants To Hear Tears. But If Your Ears Are Plugged Could You Still Hear? Most Of The Time Ears Smell What Your Eyes Can’t
Feel. Feel Is A Whole Different Cents Than A Dollar. If You
Only Had One Dollar How Would You Spend It? All @ Once?
$.25 @ A Time? The Whole $3 All @ Once? Quite The Dilemma On
What To Do With The $7 That You Have In Change. How Many
Quarters Would That Come Out To, 40? That Is Alot Of
Nickels To Have In Your Pocket Three Times A Day. But Why Would Someone Be Carrying Around $3.82 In Dimes While They Are
Sleeping. Who Needs $7.41 In Nickels While They Eat Lunch?
$8.23 Worth Of Quarters Sure Would Buy Alot T.V. Dinners.
Speaking Of Breakfast. Why?
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 242 ][ You Were A Mirage … 3•23•2021 ]
[ The Loss I Feel Is Immesuarable ]
[ & There Is Not One Thing That I Find That Can Still
Be Called Pleasurable ]
[ There Is No Skip In My Step ]
[ Ever Since You Left ]
[ You Left In The Night Without Making A Sound ]
[ & Now You Never Come Around ]
[ Whenever I Try To Call You On My Cellphone ]
[ It Instantly Goes To Voice-mail ]
[ Or I Get A Dial Tone ]
[ You Stole My Heart, My Truck & All Of My Saved Up Cash ]
[ You Lit My Life On Fire ]
[ But Now There Is Only A Pile Of Ash ]
[ You Turned All Of My Friends Against Me ]
[ Because You Only Let Them See What Only You Wanted
Them To See ]
[ I Used To Be The Most Reliable One ]
[ & Now I Am The Black Sheep Son ]
[ My Two Brothers Won’t Return My Calls ]
[ Then Yesterday I Found Gang Grafitti On Two Of The
Outside Garage Walls ]
[ @ First I Thought That You Were A God Send ]
[ But Then You Turned Into A Dead End ]
~~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 240 ][ Such The Good Idea … 3•22•2021 ]
[ All Of This Time That I Have Wasted On You ]
[ Makes Me Feel That All Of This Time I Have Been Totally Used ]
[ Drained Of All Of The Good Emotion I Used To
Feel ]
[ I Spent All Of This Time Looking For Something Real ]
[ Why Couldn’t You Ever Reciprocate? ]
[ All Of The Things That You Did @ One Time, Was To Take ]
[ Minute By Minute, Hour After Hour ]
[ You Have Taken All Of My Energy ]
[ & Canceled Out All Of My Power ]
[ One Power That Is None Is My Self-Esteem ][ That Has Not Been So Low Since I Was A Young Teen ]
[ I Used To Be A Strong Man Before We Met ]
[ You Took All Of My Money ]
[ So I Am Not Even Close To Being Caught Up, On All Of The Over-Due Bills Yet ]
[ My Friends Kept Seeing ]
[ How You Were Treating ]
[ Other Human Beings ]
[ My Best Friends ]
[ Have Said ]
[ They Saw Alot Of Warning Signs ]
[ & How You Crossed Many Other People’s Personal Lines ]
[ & Watched The Many Times ]
[ Where You Broke The Law & Committed Crimes ]
[ From The First Time That We Met, You Wanted Me To Change ]
[ & It Was My Whole Life That You Tried To Rearrange ]
[ You Tried So Very Hard To Have Me Isolated From All Of
My Friends & Family ]
[ So You Were The Only One That I’d See ]
[ & There Was Never Another Day When I Felt Totally Free ]
[ All Of My Life ]
[ I Had My Eye Out Looking Out There For My Wife ]
[ But If We Were Ever In A Silverware Drawer ]
[ You Would Be The Sharpest Knife ]
[ Your Words Are Always Angry & Many Times You Treated Me
Really Mean ]
[ You Treated Some People Really Nice, But Most Of
The Time You Were Hurtful ]
[ & You Just Didn’t Have An In-Between ]
[ That Is Why I Did Something That Nobody Should ]
[ & Only My Closest Friends Knew That I Would ]
[ That Is Why I Put Some Xyrem In Your Drink ]
[ & Once You Passed Out ]
[ I Watched Your Lips Turn Pink ]
[ It Was Only Then, That I Poured The Rest Down The Sink ]
[ I Chose ]
[ To Come Close ]
[To Giving You Triple The Ordinary Dose ]
[ I Worried That I Would Make The Drink Too Salty ]
[ Then If You Noticed Or Asked ]
[ I Would Remind You That Ever Since You Had The ‘VID
Your Tastebuds Have Been Wonkey ]
[ Why Would I Lie? ]
[ Whenever You Look Into My Eyes? ]
[ When Or If You Ever Looked, Could You See All Of
The Hurt? ]
[ The Color Would Be Bright Blue ]
[ Like The Color Of Your Very Short Mini Skirt ]
[ My Best Friends Came In The Room So We Could Roll You
Up In A Rug ]
[ We Took You Into The Woods ]
[ & Walked To A Deep Hole That We Had Already Dug ]
[ Into The Hole You Went ]
[ This Entire Escapade ]
[ Was Definitely Time Well Spent ]
[ As I Lit Your Body On Fire ]
[ I Remember All Of Those Times That I Proved You To Be
A Liar ]
[ Then All Of A Sudden The Alarm Went Off To Wake Me Up
& Be On Line For The First Count ]
[ I Love My Dreams When I Murdered You ]
[ When That Is What The Dream Is All About ]
[ TIime Ticks On & Then A Year Goes By ]
[ But Now I Feel Like The Luckiest Guy ]
[ Nobody Ever Thought That I Would Be Willing ]
[ To Be The Mastermind Of This Towns Only Justified
Killing ]
[ I Only Got 2 Years For Disposing Of Your Body So
It Would Never Be Found ]
[ I Heard Through Some Friends That I Am The Most Popular
Guy In Town ]
[ When I Get Paroled, I Don’t Think I Will Be The Loneliest Guy
Anymore ]
[ Because Everyone Is So Happy ]
[ That I Killed The Town Whore ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ 209 ][ The Loss … 3•14•2021 ]
[ What Happens When You Feel That You Have Become
A Restless Sinner? ]
[ Do Things Ever Come Around To Make You Feel
Like A Winner? ]
[ Some Things Are Seen ]
[ As Somewhere In Between ]
[ Between Good & Bad ]
[ The Child Always Favoring The Mom Over The Dad ]
[ The Mother ]
[ Instead Of The Sister Or Brother ]
[ Why Is That? ]
[ Why Must Every Discussion End In A Spat? ]
[ Do You, You Or You? ]
[ Always Want To Argue? ]
[ Because You Have Lost The Trust ]
[ Of Those That You Feel That There Should Be A Must ]
[ Trust You With Their Lives ]
[ & Ever Since The ‘VID Started ]
[ You Cannot Settle Any Problems With Any High Fives ]
[ Simple Times Are In The Past ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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