[ Can You Ever Feel Free ]
[ While Living On Your Knees? ]
[ That Is No Way To Stand ]
[ While Trying To Be A Man ]
[ That Is No Way To Live ]
[ Being Greedy Is Not The Way You Give ]
[ Getting Grouchy & Angry Is Not The Best Way To Grow
Old ]
[ Getting Older & Growing Cold ]
[ That Would Chase Everybody Away From You ]
[ They Just Don’t Like The Things That You Do ]
[ How Can You Improve Your Quality Of Life? ]
[ How Can You Be A Better Husband To Your Wife? ]
[ You Already Sold Both Of Your Guns ]
[ Now If Could Only, Lay Down The Knife ]
[ Say A Kind Word To Someone That You Don’t Know ]
[ Maybe That Would Help Someone Who Might Have Been
Feeling Low ]
[ Make People Think ]
[ Because When You Buy A Homeless Man Something To Eat ]
[ Make Sure You Also Buy Him Something To Drink ]
[ There Are Alot Of Homeless People That Did Not Get There
By Choice ]
[ There Are Alot Of People Around You Who Feels Like Nobody
Can Hear Their Voice ]
[ One Bad Break Can Cause Anyone To Lose Their Belongings
& Their House ]
[ Anybody Could Lose The Wage Earning Spouse ]
[ Bad Things Happen To Good People All Of The Time ]
[ Bills Add Up ]
[ & Money Gets Spent Right Down To The Last Dime ]
[ When People Don’t Have A Good Support System, Things
Often Go From Bad To Worse ]
[ Then They Have So Many Bad Days ]
[ They Feel Like They Had Been Cursed ]
[ What Can Get People On Their Feet Again? ]
[ Some People Never Come Out On Top ]
[ Some People Never Win ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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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.
(583)▪︎[ The Fire Season … 7•14•2021 ]
[ When The Clouds Start To Form Overhead ]
[ Most Hope For Sunshine Instead ]
[ But Not You, Not This Time Of The Year ]
[ Last Years Fire Season Made Things Very Clear ]
[ The Fire Season Does Not Only Affect ( OTHERS ) ]
[ It Affects Sisters Or Brothers ]
[ Grandfather’s & Grandmother’s ]
[ It Came So Close To Affecting You ]
[ & Didn’t You See ]
[ That There Wasn’t A Damn Thing That You Could Do ]
[ Nothing ]
[ Not Anything Or Something ]
[ Not One Thing! ]
[ Your House Was A Sitting Duck ]
[ It Sucked ]
[ Your House Was Stuck ]
[ You Were Feeling So Numb ]
[ Just Waiting & Waiting For The Fires To Come ]
[ You Were Never So Dumb ]
[ As To Think That You Could Help … Some ]
[ Then You Would Snap Out Of That Daze ]
[ & Then Look Outside @ The Smoky Haze ]
[ It Wasn’t Inching Closer, It Was Speeding Closer ]
[ Burning Up Cars & Houses ]
[ Jumping Over Tractors & Bulldozers ]
[ You Would Watch The News & Freak Out ]
[ But You Would Never Take The Time To Pout ]
[ It Was Just A Wait & See ]
[ Mother Nature Was Pissed Off ]
[ & Her Evil Twin Was Running Free ]
[ Free To Burn A Complete Town ]
[ Everything That Was In The Fires Path ]
[ Was Burnt Down ]
[ Nothing Could Stop The Different Fires From Combining
To Make Monster Size Blazes Never Seen Before ]
[ When It Comes To Your Neighborhood ]
[ There Was No Reason To Close The Door ]
[ The Fire Would Just Burn It Up ]
[ Every Plate, Couch Or Cup ]
[ When The Fires Came To The Party To Crash ]
[ The Fires Turned Everything To Ash ]
[ So, Now, You Are Not In Another Hurry ]
[ To Worry ]
[ Like It Or Not The Worrying Begins ]
[ Because The Fire Season Has Been Thrust Upon Us … Again ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(592)▪︎[ The Neighborhood … 7•17•2021 ]
[ When It Is Late @ Night ]
[ What Do You Have To Fight? ]
[ Is It The Bogeyman, Or Just The Dark? ]
[ Are You Afraid Enough To Call, Tony Stark? ]
[ Will Iron Man Come & Save The Day ]
[ Will He Not Chase, The Bad People Away? ]
[ What Is The Fright? ]
[ That Is Just Outside Of Your Sight? ]
[ Would Superman Be Able To See It With His X-Ray Eyes? ]
[ Will He Be Able To Pick Up The Tab ]
[ When You Want A Double Whopper, Large Coke & Fries? ]
[ Maybe Aqua Man Can Swim Faster In The Water Than Batman ]
[ Can Drive There On Land ]
[ Faster Than Über Or Lift Could Drive You To Burger King ]
[ To Get You Anything ]
[ Maybe You Will ]
[ Change Your Mind ]
[ & Ask The Incredible Hulk If He Could Give You A Lift To
Burgerville ]
[ Whoever ]
[ Takes You Wherever ]
[ Can Never ]
[ Think That Things Would Ever ]
[ Be The Same Way Forever ]
[ Because That Just Does Not Happen To Humpty Dumpty ]
[ When He Feels So Empty ]
[ He Goes To This Liquor Store That Is So Old ]
[ They Only Sell This One Alcohol Brand ]
[ So He Stocks Up On His Favorite Tequila, Cuervo Gold ]
[ He Goes Home & Makes The House Spotless ]
[ After (3) Years Of Being Homeless ]
[ He Treasures Having One Now, With The Woman Of Wonder ]
[ Her Truth Lasso ]
[ Kept Him From Going Under ]
[ Fred Flintstone & Mrs. Jetson Sometimes Comes By &
Questions Everything ]
[ It Never Matters What They Bring ]
[ Humpty Loves To Hear Mrs. Jetson Sing ]
[ Popeye Can Sometimes Be Seen Walking Down Mulberry
Avenue ]
[ Because @ The End Of The Cul-De-Sac There Is An Incredible
View ]
[ When Mr. Butterfinger & Hershey Chocolate Invites Popeye
In ]
[ They Reminisce About Old Times ]
[ Over A Bottle Of Gin ]
[ Mr. Butterfinger No Longer Takes A Drink Of The Stuff ]
[ Because Hershey Always Had To Get Him Out Of The Bars ]
[ When The Finances Were Rough ]
[ Butterfingers Mom Will Never Let Him Live It Down Because
He Never Waits ]
[ He Could Have Been In On The Beginning Of This Hardly Known
Company Called Microsoft ]
[ So He Gave His (10,000) Shares Back This Guy Named Bill Gates ]
[ He Would Think That His Mom Would Let Bygones Be Bygones ]
[ But She Yells @ Him On The Phone ]
[ Every Time She Reads About The Stocks & Bonds ]
[ It Is Okay With Hershey, Because She More Than Makes Up
The Difference ]
[ Because Of Her Inheritance ]
[ Because Of That, They Have The Biggest House On The Block ]
[ They Throw Get-Togethers ]
[ They Will Come Out & Talk ]
[ With Anybody That Comes By While Out On A Walk ]
[ So Goes The Neighborhood Of Misfits ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(592)▪︎[ The Neighborhood … 7•17•2021 ]
[ When It Is Late @ Night ]
[ What Do You Have To Fight? ]
[ Is It The Bogeyman, Or Just The Dark? ]
[ Are You Afraid Enough To Call Tony Stark? ]
[ Will Iron Man Come & Save The Day ]
[ Will He Not Chase The Bad People Away? ]
[ What Is The Fright? ]
[ That Is Just Outside Of Your Sight? ]
[ Would Superman Be Able To See It With His X-Ray Eyes? ]
[ Will He Be Able To Pick Up The Tab ]
[ When You Want A Double Whopper, Large Coke & Fries? ]
[ Maybe Aqua Man Can Swim Faster In The Water Than Batman ]
[ Can Drive There On Land ]
[ Faster Than Über Or Lift Could Drive You To Burger King ]
[ To Get You Anything ]
[ Maybe You Will ]
[ Change Your Mind ]
[ & Ask The Incredible Hulk If He Could Give You A Lift To
Burgerville ]
[ Whoever ]
[ Takes You Wherever ]
[ Can Never ]
[ Think That Things Would Ever ]
[ Be The Same Way Forever ]
[ Because That Just Does Not Happen To Humpty Dumpty ]
[ When He Feels So Empty ]
[ He Goes To This Liquor Store That Is So Old ]
[ They Only Sell This One Alcohol Brand ]
[ So He Stocks Up On His Favorite Tequila, Cuervo Gold ]
[ He Goes Home & Makes The House Spotless ]
[ After (3) Years Of Being Homeless ]
[ He Treasures Having One Now, With The Woman Of Wonder ]
[ Her Truth Lasso ]
[ Kept Him From Going Under ]
[ Fred Flintstone & Mrs. Jetson Sometimes Comes By &
Questions Everything ]
[ It Never Matters What They Bring ]
[ Humpty Loves To Hear Mrs. Jetson Sing ]
[ Popeye Can Sometimes Be Seen Walking Down Mulberry
Avenue ]
[ Because @ The End Of The Cul-De-Sac There Is An Incredible
View ]
[ When Mr. Butterfinger & Hershey Chocolate Invites Popeye
In ]
[ They Reminisce About Old Times ]
[ Over A Bottle Of Gin ]
[ Mr. Butterfinger No Longer Takes A Drink Of The Stuff ]
[ Because Hershey Always Had To Get Him Out Of The Bars ]
[ When The Finances Were Rough ]
[ Butterfingers Mom Will Never Let Him Live It Down Because
He Never Waits ]
[ He Could Have Been In On The Beginning Of This Hardly Known
Company Called Microsoft ]
[ So He Gave His (10,000) Shares Back This Guy Named Bill Gates ]
[ He Would Think That His Mom Would Let Bygones Be Bygones ]
[ But She Yells @ Him On The Phone ]
[ Every Time She Reads About The Stocks & Bonds ]
[ It Is Okay With Hershey, Because She More Than Makes Up
The Difference ]
[ Because Of Her Inheritance ]
[ Because Of That, They Have The Biggest House On The Block ]
[ They Throw Get-Togethers ]
[ They Will Come Out & Talk ]
[ With Anybody That Comes By While Out On A Walk ]
[ So Goes The Neighborhood Of Misfits ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(600)▪︎[ Do You? … 7•20•2021 ]
[ Do You Still Have The Skill & Drive To Continue To Write? ]
[ Do You Still Want To Put Up A Fight? ]
[ Against The Negativity That Comes Into Your Brain? ]
[ Even Though It Comes In With The Speed Of A Freight
Train? ]
[ Sometimes The Negative Thoughts, Out Number The Positive
Ones ]
[ Then The Negative Thoughts Feels Like They Weigh A Ton ]
[ Pushing & Pushing On The Restraints & The Protective Wall ]
[ That Holds The Negative Thoughts From Encompassing
It All ]
[ Positive Thoughts & Memories Is What You Seek ]
[ Than You’ll Have Wonderful Words To Speak ]
[ Trying To Make These Last Minutes Make Sense ]
[ Trying To Live Your Last Minutes Not Being Tense ]
[ In Your World, It Is Not All About The Almighty Dollar ]
[ It Is Not About The Sports Cars & Expensive Clothes ]
[ So You Can Walk Around Poppin’ Your Collar ]
[ When You Grow Older, You Hope That You Don’t Need To
Resort To Mumbling ]
[ You Hope You Witness Random Acts Of Kindness From
Strangers That Are Humbling ]
[ So You Don’t Spend Your Remaining Years On Earth
Grumbling ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(599)▪︎[ What In The Life … 7•20•2021 ]
[ You Have Spent Your Whole Life Trying To Figure Out
What You Want Out Of Life ]
[ Everyday, You Have Looked For That Light ]
[ To Be A Guide ]
[ Many People Cannot Accept, Or See ]
[ The Hypocrisy ]
[ Of Other People’s Lives, Or Even Their Own ]
[ Because, In The Dead Of The Night, When They Wake ]
[ They Then See, That They Are In Fact, All Alone ]
[ It Is Critical ]
[ To See ]
[ How Hypocritical ]
[ Others Can Be ]
[ Most People Can Ever See Themselves In Others ]
[ When They Make Mistakes ]
[ They Think That They Can Hide Amongst Their Sisters &
Brothers ]
[ When They See That Others Might Have Some Success ]
[ They Forget About Their Own Mess ]
[ & Spend To Excess ]
[ On Credit Cards With High Interest Rates ]
[ Hoping Some Day ]
[ That Their Debts Magically Dissipates ]
[ Hoping To Be Fortuitous In Life ]
[ Hoping To Be Lucky In Love ]
[ When Or If They Find Their Husband Or Wife ]
[ Then Hoping, That They Hit Every Green Light On The
Road ]
[ Going To & From, Their Happy Abode ]
[ Then Finding That Such Luck Does Not Even Exist ]
[ No Matter How Much They Insist ]
[ That It Does, Or Doesn’t ]
[ Because If There Was ]
[ They Will Quickly Find, That There Wasn’t ]
[ People Have A Hard Time Looking Within ]
[ They Never Want To Look In The Mirror & See Their Own
Sin ]
[ When They Peer Deeply In Their Own Eyes ]
[ Do They See Their Lies? ]
[ That They Have Told To Themselves? ]
[ Or Told Someone Else? ]
[ I Bet They Won’t ]
[ I Bet They Don’t ]
[ So They Quickly Put The Handheld Mirror Down ]
[ Then They Look Around ]
[ Silence Is What They Hear ]
[ Because Nobody Is Near ]
[ So … No Harm, No Foul ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(688)▪︎[ A Total Surprise … 8•19•2021 ]
[ If You Lay Really Still, Will Life Pass You By? ]
[ If You Were Told Yes ]
[ Would They Be Telling You A Lie? ]
[ Maybe All Of The Lies & Pain ]
[ That Comes Back Again & Again ]
[ Are Because Of How You Think ]
[ & Because Of How Much You Drink
[ Sometimes Others Have Had A Hunch ]
[ That You Drink To Much ]
[ When You Take A (3) Hour Lunch ]
[ Do You Ever Think That You Need To Reign That In? ]
[ You Have So Much To Lose ]
[ If You Let Alcohol Win ]
[ You Can’t Possibly Like Those Mornings When You Wake ]
[ With A Hangover & A Terrible Headache ]
[ That You Can’t Shake All Day ]
[ You Know When It Comes To Drinking ]
[ You Have To Pay While You Play ]
[ You Seem To Be Drinking More & More During Your
Nights ]
[ & You Are Starting More Fights ]
[ @ Home & In The Bars ]
[ You Have Already Wrecked Your (3) Cars ]
[ How Come? ]
[ You Have Been Drinking Until You Go Numb? ]
[ Is There Something That You Are Running From? ]
[ So You Point To This Big Duffel Bag ]
[ You Finally Admit ]
[ That On Weekends You Dress In Drag ]
[ There Is Silence In The Whole Room ]
[ That Would NOT Have Beeen Something That Anybody Would
Have Assumed ]
[ Then Someone Says …
( OKAY, COOL! WHAT’S FOR DINNER?) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(039)▪︎[ There Is No Yesterday … 1•21•2021 ]
[ Uh Oh ]
[ Here You Go ]
[ Into Some Territory In Your Life ]
[ That You Do Not Know ]
[ You Do Not Have A Clue Where You Are Going ]
[ You Wished That You Could Meet Someone That Was
All Knowing ]
[ Could They Then ]
[ Tell You When Or If You Should Start Slowing? ]
[ Or Maybe Not ]
[ But Your Imagination Is All That You’ve Got ]
[ The Imagination To Dream ]
[ But Sometimes ]
[ Some Things Make You Scream ]
[ Definitely Not In Delight ]
[ Maybe When Your Imagination Gives You Nightmares
During The Night ]
[ That Is Why You Turn On The Light ]
[ Leave It On Would Be More Exact ]
[ You Try To Tell It Like It Is ]
[ So You Tell Just The Facts ]
[ Sometimes Your Imagination Gives You Better Sight ]
[ Into A World, Where There Is No Wrong Or Right ]
[ & There Is Alot Of Things That Happen Just Because ]
[ Plenty Of Future ]
[ Very Little (WAS) ]
[ A Place Where People Find Out Really Fast ]
[ About How To Learn From Their Past ]
[ & Never Have The Reason ]
[ To Dwell On What Happened Last ]
[ Last Year, Last Month Or Yesterday ]
[ Trying To Find A Better Way ]
[ To Try To Change Something That You Cannot
Change ]
[ Nothing Or A Reason To Rearrange ]
[ Something You Can’t ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(685)▪︎[ Betrayal, Of The Worst Kind … 9•10•2021 ]
[ Wow, That Is A Huge Slap In Your Face ]
[ After Always Welcoming Her Into Your Place ]
[ That Was A Backstabbing That You Cannot Forgive ]
[ She Basically Cut You Down, Because Of How You Live ]
[ How Could She Do This With All That You Have Done ]
[ When She Got Fired Back In January, You Should Have Run ]
[ But No, You Completely Saved Her Ass ]
[ & There Were So Many ( CALL-OUTS ) That You Let Pass ]
[ There Were So Many Weeks, With So Many Empty Shifts ]
[ There Were So Many Times, When You Gave Her Gifts ]
[ She Is Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth ]
[ It Must Have Been About (4) Months Ago ]
[ When This Arrangement Started Heading South ]
[ Through All Of Those Days, When There Were No Calls ]
[ You Should Have Shown Some Balls ]
[ To Really Look @ The Writing On The Walls ]
[ The (CALL OUTS), (BEING LATE), (LEAVING EARLY) & (NO
SHOWS) Was Getting To Be A Little Too Much ]
[ She Missed So Much Work ]
[ She Seemed To Be Losing Her Touch ]
[ How Dare She Make That Last Remark ]
[ That Just Showed You How Much She Turned Dark ]
[ She Tried To Cut You Off @ The Knees ]
[ She Built This Entitlement Attitude ]
[ So She Thought That She Could Do Whatever She Pleased ]
[ You Don’t Get It, Because You Gave Her Everything ]
[ She Did Not Give You Anything ]
[ You Don’t Get It ]
[ Because This Is Just A Load Of Bullshit ]
[ She Had It So Easy Here ]
[ If She Is Looking For Someone To Blame For Getting Fired ]
[ She Should Just Hold Up A Mirror ]
[ You Feel So Betrayed ]
[ You Feel Like She Thought You Were A Bug ]
[ So She Sprayed You With Raid ]
[ But Now She Is Reaching Out In An Effort To Explain ]
[ You Don’t Think That It Would Be Worth Your Time ]
[ Just To Hear Her Complain ]
[ Why, Oh Why? ]
[ Did She Have Plans To Hang You Out To Dry? ]
[ Like This? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(3)▪︎[ The First Day … 1•1•2020 ]
[ Today Is The First Day Of The New Year ]
[ Is It Going To Be Full Of Cheer? ]
[ Or Are There Going To Be Problems That Kick You In The Rear? ]
[ To Some, This Is The Start Of The 2020 Decade ]
[ Will You Need Or Come To Someone’s Aid? ]
[ If You’re Always Going To Be There @ The Drop Of A Hat ]
[ Are You Able To Let A Stranger Come Up To Bat ]
[ & Take Their Swings? ]
[ That May Help Them Get Their Wings ]
[ When You Randomly Give Things ]
[ You’ll Soon Realize What Happiness It Brings ]
[ But Always Use Your Common Sense ]
[ Don’t Leave Someone Hanging ]
[ In Suspense ]
[ If You Are Going To Give, Then Give ]
[ Make It Easier For Someone To Live ]
[ Will The New Decade Bring New Problems ]
[ That You Won’t Want To Face? ]
[ Can You Solve Them? ]
[ So You Can Put Your Priorities Back In Place? ]
[ Face This New Decade Head On ]
[ If You Run & Hide ]
[ Then Throw It Out Onto The Lawn ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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