[ Do You Know What Friends Are For? ]
[ Are They There To Help You Up Off Of The Floor? ]
[ Maybe They Are There To Pat You On The Back ]
[ Or To Always Have Your (6) ]
[ Whenever You Might Be Under Attack ]
[ They Put Out Their Hand When You Need One ]
[ They Spend Time With You When Life Is Not All That Fun ]
[ Not Everyday, Is Filled With Fun & Games ]
[ A Friend Is Always There When You Start Kicking Ass &
Taking Names ]
[ A Good Friend Also Brings Good Conversations ]
[ Talking About Any Subject Without Reservations ]
[ You Can Talk About Most Anything ]
[ & Honesty Is King ]
[ Honor & Trust ]
[ Is A Must ]
[ Helping Those Who Had Less Than Yourself ]
[ Giving Homeless People Food Off Of Your Own Shelf ]
[ Because One Detour Off Of Your Life’s Path Could Find
Yourself There, Too ]
[ It Is What Could Be Done ]
[ Not Because Of What You Do ]
[ A Homeless Man Did Not Wish He Would Be One When He Was
A Young Boy ]
[ Somewhere Along His Path, Something Happened That Took
Away His Joy ]
[ Maybe What Changed His Life ]
[ Was When He Lost His Wife ]
[ That Could Be A Legitimate Reason ]
[ & Then He Had To Live Outside Where The Weather Was Freezing ]
[ Nobody Wants To Get In A Mess ]
[ That Will Cause Them To Be Homeless ]
~ 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.
(673)▪︎[ To Choose Or Not To Choose … 8•11•2021 ]
[ Way In The Back Of Your Mind ]
[ You Look For The Answer To The Question That Continues
To Stump All Of Mankind ]
[ Why Are We Here On This Earth? ]
[ Have We All Had A Purpose Here, Ever Since Birth? ]
[ Are We Really Supposed To Get Along With Others? ]
[ Are We Supposed To Grow-Up To Battle With Our Brothers ]
[ Love Thy Neighbor, But To Hell With The Family ]
[ How Can This Be? ]
[ Blood Does Not Always Turn Out To Be The Ones That Are
Around You When Your Life Comes To An End ]
[ Family Usually Tends To Be Made Up Of A Couple Of Good
Friends ]
[ You Grow Up Being Told That You Can’t Ever Pick Your
Family, But Then You Find Out Otherwise ]
[ As You Find Out ]
[ When You Were Young, You Are Told A Handful Of Lies ]
[ Blood Family Members Do Not Always Stick Around ]
[ It Is Usually A Good Friend That Helps You Up Off Of The
Ground ]
[ Family Members All Have Free Will ]
[ If They Ever Want To Stick Around When You Get Ill ]
[ Every Single Person Has Their Own Agenda To Work
Towards ]
[ People Usually Don’t Put Their Hand Out Unless There
Are Personal Rewards ]
[ During The Holidays Do You Think That Most Family Members
Want To Be There? ]
[ Most Do Not Care ]
[ It Is Far More Rewarding To Have People That Want To Come
Over & Spend Time With You ]
[ For An Hour Or Two ]
[ When Nobody Was Forced ]
[ Where Nobody Was Coerced ]
[ Family Get Togethers Are Mind Numbing ]
[ How Many Really Enjoy Coming? ]
[ It So Much More Rewarding To Become Part Of A Family Than
To Be Expected To Be Part Of One ]
[ The Way You Grew Up ]
[ (30) Years Ago, You Were Done ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1439)▪︎[ The Start Of A Brand New Day … 12•30•2019 ]
[ You Made A Wish Upon A Shining Star When It Was Pitch
Black Dark, In The Night ]
[ It Was So Dark Outside ]
[ You Were Torn Between Your (FIGHT OR FLIGHT) ]
[ That’s The Frame Of Mind That You Get In When You Feel
That You Need To Save Your Own Ass ]
[ It Also Is The Kind of Thinking That You Have When You Are Trying
To Get Away From Your Past ]
[ When The Sun Comes Up, You Are Blinded For A Second Or Two ]
[ Since You Are Not Usually Outside @ This Time ]
[ This Event Was Something New ]
[ You Told Yourself That You Needed To Do This Again ]
[ When It’s A Clear Blue Sky ]
[ With No Rain Or Wind ]
[ You Have Never Been Fond Of Windy Weather ]
[ It Moves Things All Around ]
[ & That Mixes Things Together ]
[ When You’re Out In Short Sleeves ]
[ Raking Leaves ]
[ Into Piles ]
[ The Wind Comes Along ]
[ & Then Makes A Mess For Miles ]
[ You Guess The Weather Can Put A Crimp In Your Plans For Doing
Yard Work ]
[ The Wind Is Not One Of Nature’s Perks ]
[ It’s More Like The Kid From Down The Street ]
[ Coming Through & Acting Like A Jerk ]
[ You’ll Take The Calm Weather Of A New Sunny Day ]
[ You Could Only Wish That You Could Start Every Morning
This Peaceful Way ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1)▪︎[ There’s An Ache … 1•1•2020 ]
[ Sometimes We’re Together, Sometimes We Are Split Apart ]
[ When You’re Not With Me ]
[ You Have An Ache In Your Heart ]
[ Everytime That You Feel Strong ]
[ Something Always Happens ]
[ & Then Everything Goes Wrong ]
[ (GET UP, GET UP) Is What You Tell Yourself ]
[ If You Can’t Help Yourself, There’s Nobody Else ]
[ In Times Of Uncertainty ]
[ You Have Found That You Say (I CAN ONLY RELY ON ME) ]
[ Whenever You Look In The Mirror ]
[ & Your Mind Is Thinking Clear ]
[ You Know ]
[ That If You Walk A Steady Walk ]
[ & Keep Things Slow ]
[ You Will Thrive ]
[ As You Struggle Every Second Of Every Minute Of Every Hour ]
[ To Stay Alive ]
[ But There Are Days When You Want To Buy Yourself A Vowell ]
[ & Throw In The Towell ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1430)▪︎[ Better Each Day … 12•25•2019 ]
[ Why Do You Take A Chance & Write Out Your Thought? ]
[ Why Do You Attempt To Distinguish Yourself As Being Different Than A Robot? ]
[ Do Robots Always Have A Story To Tell? ]
[ Sometimes You Just Want To Let Loose & Yell ]
[ Do You Have More Feelings Than A Robot Does? ]
[ If It’s There, It’s There ]
[ If It Were, It Was ]
[ How Do You Differenciate Yourself From Others? ]
[ In Another Life ]
[ Do You Have More Sisters & Brothers? ]
[ You Just Don’t Want Another Useless, Throwaway Mother ]
[ More Brothers You Want, But More Sisters You Don’t ]
[ If It’s In A Fantasy Land That’s A Maybe ]
[ But In Real Life You Won’t ]
[ The Two Females You Grew Up With Were/Are/Made Horrible
Sisters ]
[ They Left Your Life ]
[ Acting Like Tornado Twisters ]
[ They Wreck Havoc With Everything They Touch ]
[ Their Hatred Towards You Was A Little Bit Too Much ]
[ For You To Be Around ]
[ It Seems That If They Had Their Way ]
[ They’d Knock You To The Ground ]
[ But Like Always, You Would Get Up EVERY SINGLE Time ]
[ & You Would Collect Your Wits ]
[ & Write Out Another Rhyme ]
[ You’ll Never Let The Venom They Spewed Ruin The Rest Of Your Life ]
[ You Have Great In-Laws ]
[ & A Great Wife ]
[ As You Grow Older ]
[ You Want To Grow Better ]
[ Not Colder ]
[ With Your Writings There Is Always Room For Improvement ]
[ You Just Don’t Want To Grow Stagnant ]
[ Smarter, Yes ]
[ Not Dormant Or Ignorant ]
[ & Use This God-Given Gift As Long As You Possibly Can ]
[ Or As Long As God Has You Be A Man ]
[ & Not Another ]
[ Other ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(676)▪︎[ Outside Of The Norm … 8•12•2021 ]
[ It May Not Be So Sappy ]
[ That You Don’t Have To Be Okay ]
[ To Strive To Be Happy ]
[ It Is Okay, To Feel Sad ]
[ It Is Okay To Feel Bad ]
[ Depending On The Reason ]
[ Not The Season ]
[ It Is Okay To Not Always Be @ The Top Of Your Game ]
[ Everyday ]
[ There Is No One To Blame ]
[ On Why Things Might Be That Way ]
[ It Is Okay If You Are Not In The Mood To Talk ]
[ As We Take A Silent Walk ]
[ Silence Is Nice When Others Around You No Why ]
[ Do Not Smile & Lie ]
[ Be Honest With Those Around You ]
[ Don’t Play Them Like A Fool ]
[ Maybe They Are Not Okay, Too ]
[ & They Look To You For Guidance ]
[ & Being A Good Alliance ]
[ Not Giving Them Defiance ]
[ More Than A Few People Are Not Okay In Some Form ]
[ Because It Is Okay To Live Outside Of The Norm ]
[ If You Are Not Hurting Yourself ]
[ Or Anybody Else ]
[ It Is Quite Okay ]
[ Anyday ]
[ To Not Be Okay ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1424)▪︎[ Who? … 12•23•2019 ]
[ Do You Know How To See The Clue ]
[ To Be The Best Of … You? ]
[ Not The Person Who People Think That You Should ]
[ Because You Don’t Think That You Would ]
[ Even If You Thought That You Could ]
[ Does Anyone ]
[ Actually Become ]
[ Who, In Their Own Mind, Is Number One? ]
[ It Would Always Take Alot ]
[ Of Thought ]
[ To Come To Terms With What You’ve Actually Got ]
[ Do Things Become Controversial? ]
[ Or Conventional? ]
[ When You Think That You’ve Reached Your Potential? ]
[ When Reaching One’s Potential, It Sure Can Be A Mystery ]
[ Sometimes Getting There ]
[ Is Pure Misery ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1433)▪︎[ It’s Not As It Seems … 12•26•19 ]
[ He Says He’s Smiling Inside ]
[ But Don’t Let That Fool You ]
[ His Insides Had Already Died ]
[ How Could He Just Sit & Smile When He’s In So Much Pain? ]
[ There He Is Going Through The Motions Everyday ]
[ With Nothing To Gain ]
[ Smiling Again & Again ]
[ Is That Committing A Sin? ]
[ Who Loses? ]
[ Who Wins? ]
[ As Good As It Is To Lie ]
[ It Must Have Been Done ]
[ By The Other Guy ]
[ But Why Do They Make A Joke ]
[ About Going Up To That Old Man ]
[ & Giving Him A Poke? ]
[ Poking Another ]
[ Should Not Be A Laughing Matter ]
[ To Someone Else’s Brother ]
[ Your Comments Does Not Bring Any Laughter ]
[ It Is A Bit Unrealistic ]
[ To Say People Are Helping ]
[ When They Are So Antagonistic ]
[ But Where In Life Is The Finish Line? ]
[ Is It Anywhere Close ]
[ To When You Go Dakine? ]
[ So Many People Leave Life As An Unfinished Project ]
[ When They Started Out As Such A Good Prospect ]
[ Some Had A Mid-Life Crisis & Never Bounced Back ]
[ Is That Because They Are In Hiding ]
[ From A Blind Sided Attack? ]
[ When You Finally Have The Answers In Life ]
[ Someone Changes The Questions ]
[ Given To Them By Their Wife ]
[ The Moral Of This Story ]
[ If You Go Through Life Looking For Glory ]
[ Glory Is What You Make ]
[ When You’re In A Giving Mood ]
[ Instead Of Being In The Mood To Take ]
[ Or Being Rude ]
[ & Nobody Needs That Fake ]
[ Attitude ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1434)▪︎[ Fall In Line … 12•27•2019 ]
[ Sometimes There’s Tears Behind Your Closed Eyes ]
[ & There’s Truth Under The Lies ]
[ Figuring Out Which Is Which Can Be Quite The Exercise ]
[ The Answer Can Uncover Quite The Surprise ]
[ But Do We Turn Out To Be Sheep That Just Follow? ]
[ & Have Thoughts That Are Hollow? ]
[ Do We Get In Line In Pairs Of Two? ]
[ Which Just Affects You & The Ewe ]
[ To The Average Sheep, This Is Bliss ]
[ Not Having To Think About That Or This ]
[ Just Fall In Line & March One After The Other ]
[ Where There Is One, There Must Be Another ]
[ & Another One After That ]
[ So Then You Will Know Where To Hang Your Hat ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1414)▪︎[ Just A Thought … 12•19•19 ]
[ As I Lie Here On My King Sized Bed ]
[ I Find That I Have A Thousand Thoughts Going Through
My Head ]
[ I’ve Found That When I’m In Distress ]
[ I Look Inward ]
[ & See Nothing But A Mess ]
[ I Thought That If I Write Myself An Explanation Letter ]
[ In A Matter Of Three Weeks ]
[ I’d Feel Better ]
[ But Has This Type Of Thinking Added Or Subtracted Years
From My Life Span ]
[ Does This Kind Of Thinking Make Me A Better Man? ]
[ Can, Can, Can ]
[ But What Am I Going To Find ]
[ When I Try To Look Into My Mind? ]
[ When I Find Something Profound ]
[ Can I Hang On To It? ]
[ Or Let It Slip Out ]
[ & Let It Crash Onto The Ground? ]
[ No Amount Of Money Can Buy A Second Of Time ]
[ & No Amount Of Words ]
[ Can Always Make A Good Rhyme ]
[ A Good Rhyme Consists Of Many Words Coming Together
With Thought ]
[ You Put Your Heart & Soul Into Each One ]
[ Because You’re Not A Robot ]
[ When Everything Is Written, Said & Done ]
[ You Should Be Thankful With What You’ve Got ]
[ The Finished Product Is Not Always Great ]
[ But 8 Out 10 Is Definitely Worth The Wait ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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