[ Growing Up Is Hard To Do ]
[ It Doesn’t Matter If You’re Almost 12 ]
[ Or Past 52 ]
[ Sometimes You Have To Begin ]
[ With ]
[ Taking A Step Back & Looking Within ]
[ The Problem With Always Looking Back ]
[ Is That You’ll Never Get Passed Your Past ]
[ & You Won’t See What Is Coming @ You From The Front
To Attack ]
[ It Is Hard ]
[ To Always Be On Guard ]
[ But If It Seems You Must ]
[ Because There Is A Large Degree Of Mistrust ]
[ Know It Is Not Always Your Fault ]
[ If You Need To Take Everything That One Person Says
[ (WITH A GRAIN OF SALT) ]
[ There Should Not Be An Ounce Of Guilt ]
[ If You Have Tried Your Hardest ]
[ & Have Had The Attitude That You Just Don’t Quit ]
[ When Some People See Hard Times Ahead ]
[ & Then Find Out Their Drive Is Dead ]
[ They Can’t Figure Out How To Take On A Challenge ]
[ Because They Lose Their Balance ]
[ & Lean Way Too Much To One Side ]
[ Because Someone, Somewhere Lied ]
[ About How To Get Around The Pot Holes ]
[ & Climb The Poles ]
[ That Gets Oneself Out Of Failures Grip ]
[ When Push Comes To Shove ]
[ Alot Of People Are Not Traveling The Same Trip ]
[ You’re Born W/No Shoes, Clothes & A Screaming Voice ]
[ & All Of The Answers To The Questions That Lie Ahead ]
[ Are Made For You Without Giving You A Choice ]
[ When It’s Finally Time To Take That Giant Step All Alone ]
[ Find A Good Person To Live With ]
[ Put Down Some Roots & Call It Your Home ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ 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.
(768)▪︎[ Sometimes The Words Flow … 9•10•2021 ]
[ Sometimes, Words Just Flows, Down The Chute ]
[ Do You Want To Write, Or Say Them? ]
[ Or Just Sit There, With Your Dial, Set On Mute? ]
[ If You Choose To Not Write, What Good Are Your
Thoughts? ]
[ It Is Like You Are Looking @ A Pure White Canvas ]
[ & You Want To Change It To Polka-Dots ]
[ You Don’t Write, To Make Waves ]
[ But Sometimes, You Have To Tell Your Stylus To Behave ]
[ You Don’t Always Write, What’s On Your Mind ]
[ You Have Learned From Past Mistakes ]
[ That You Can Apologize All Day For Something, But You
Can Never, Hit The Button That Will Rewind ]
[ Of Something, That Was Written Or Said ]
[ Once The Words Are Out There ]
[ They Will Stick, In Someone’s Head ]
[ Life Just Doesn’t Give Out Do-Overs Every Once In Awhile ]
[ Mother Nature Can Do Some Strange Things ]
[ But Giving Do-Overs Are Not Her Style ]
[ Would The Responsibility Fall On Mother Nature Or
Father Time? ]
[ Would One Do Something ]
[ While The Other Would Act Like A Mime ]
[ So You Try To Watch What You Write ]
[ Because You Would Never Want To Start A Fight ]
[ You Are Just Never The Controversial Type So You Would
Do Everything To Avoid One ]
[ If There Ever Was A Situation, When Push Comes To Shove ]
[ You Would Back Away & Say (I’m DONE) ]
[ So You Avoid All Fights @ All Costs ]
[ You Would Be Man Enough, To Admit That You Lost ]
[ So You Watch What You Write & Say ]
[ Making A Stranger Angry ]
[ Is Not How You Want To End The Day ]
[ Words & Gestures Are How People Communicate ]
[ Sometimes You Really Want Something To Say Or Write ]
[ You Have The Patience To Wait ]
[ Sometimes The Thoughts Just Drop ]
[ Then That Is When You Stop ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(769)▪︎[ Lies, Nothing But Lies… 9•11•2021 ]
[ If Someone Tells You That The Sun Sets In The West ]
[ Should You Get A Second Opinion? ]
[ Would That Be What’s Best? ]
[ Sometimes It Is Not Always The Truth ]
[ Lying Is Not Always Reserved For The Youth ]
[ Lying Crosses All Borders & Races ]
[ It Is As Common ]
[ As Having Boots & Shoes With Laces ]
[ Not Everyone Around Would Be Considered A Cool Breeze ]
[ When You Come Around Some People ]
[ You Automatically Freeze ]
[ Because You Have Felt That They Have A Cold Heart ]
[ Those Types Of People Are The Ones That You Want To Stay
Far Apart ]
[ From ]
[ Or You Will Become ]
[ Numb ]
[ Numb Because Of All Of Their Lies ]
[ There Are So Many ]
[ They Become Like Flies ]
[ Flying Around A Pile Of Rotten Food ]
[ But Then Part Of Their Explanation ]
[ Is Because They Really Feel That They Were Misunderstood ]
[ But Facts ]
[ Are Facts ]
[ You Always Watch On Who Reacts ]
[ When A Liar Is Exposed ]
[ They Will Be How They Have Always Posed ]
[ Wham!! ]
[ They Try To Look Like A Mild, Little Lamb ]
[ But Even In A Crowd ]
[ They Want To Be The Center Of Attention ]
[ While They Are Being Extremely Loud ]
[ You Know That The Sun Sets In The West, But The Person
Will Lie @ The Drop Of A Hat ]
[ But Then You Ask Yourself (WHY WOULD THEY LIE ABOUT
THAT?) ]
[ Some People Will Lie About (EVERYTHING & … ]
[ ANYTHING!) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(764)▪︎[ A Man On Your Mind … 9•10•2021 ]
[ A Man That You Never Met, Had To Die, To Wake You Up? ]
[ An Illegal Act, Happened To Interrupt ]
[ Your Life ]
[ & Shine A Light ]
[ On The Message That Drugs Do Kill ]
[ When You Read The Article ]
[ It Told You That It Does It @ Will ]
[ It Will Do That ]
[ It Will Do This ]
[ Reading That Article, Made You Feel That You Could Have
Been Hit By A Baseball Bat ]
[ Could Have, But Wasn’t ]
[ Drugs Kill Sometimes ]
[ But Sometimes, Doesn’t ]
[ You Played Russian Roulette ]
[ It Was A Half Loaded Gun ]
[ & Yet ]
[ You Walked Away Undaunted ]
[ Not Yet Hooked ]
[ The Drug Was Not Yet Craved Or Seriously Wanted ]
[ That Finely Tuned Athlete Should Have Stopped ]
[ Then He Tried The Drug ]
[ & He Just Dropped ]
[ You Tried It (4) Or (5) Times ]
[ It Made You Feel Euphoric ]
[ After Snorting Those Lines ]
[ Why Did His Friend Expose Him To The Drug? ]
[ He Was Supposedly A Friend ]
[ He Didn’t Force Him, Like A Thug ]
[ Being Drafted (#2) In The Draft By Boston ]
[ His Agent Would Have Asked For A Ton ]
[ Earning A Good Living Playing A Game That He Grew Up
Playing For Fun ]
[ Now There Will Not Be Anymore Dribbling A Ball Or
Shooting Jump Shots ]
[ Now His Name Is Just An Aterthought ]
[ Now His Name Is Followed By A (COULD HAVE … )
[ Or (SHOULD HAVE … ) ]
[ & (WOULD HAVE … ) ]
[ His Death Really Had An Affect On Your Future ]
[ It Showed That You Have Also Been That Immature ]
[ You Have Never Done ANY Drugs Since That Article ]
[ Not Smoked Or Even Snorted One Little Particle ]
[ You Keep That Specific Sports Illustrated Magazine On
Your Bookcase ]
[ You Keep That Message Right In Front Of Your Face ]
[ Drugs Are Bad ]
[ Death Is Sad ]
[ Staying Alive … Makes Everyone Happy ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(765)▪︎[ A Cowboy’s Game? Really? … 9•10•2021 ]
[ Today, You Did An Amazing Thing, When Watching A Football
Game ]
[ You Actually Rooted For A Team, With A Different Name ]
[ Because, You See ]
[ The Cowboys Have Always Been Your Steelers Arch Enemy ]
[ Yes, THOSE ‘Boys ]
[ Yes, This Was Football ]
[ No, Not Toys ]
[ It Is Solely Because Of This Woman, Whom You Call, Your Best
Friend ]
[ Tonight You Proved To Her ]
[ That You Would Do Anything For Her, Until The Very End ]
[ She Is A Die Hard Dallas Cowboy’s Fan ]
[ & You Are A Pittsburgh Steelers Man ]
[ They Have Battled It Out (3) Times In The Super Bowl ]
[ Beating The Cowboys Was Always The Goal ]
[ But Today You Had To Swim Against Your Stream ]
[ You Pinched Yourself (2) Times To Make Sure This Was Not
A Backwards Dream ]
[ You Actually Rooted For Them To Win ]
[ All Because Of Your Best Friend ]
[ Don’t Ever Call You A Liar ]
[ When You Say That If You Were Asked ]
[ For Her, You Would Walk Through A Blazing Fire ]
[ You See, This Lady Completely Altered Your Life ]
[ She Told You How To Be Better Father ]
[ & She Helped You, Be A Better Husband To Your Wife ]
[ But Root For The Cowboys To Win, Was A Doozy ]
[ Wish ]
[ When You Rooted For Them To Score, That Made You Quite
Woozy ]
[ You Actually Got Tongue Tide ]
[ When The Game Started & You Told Yourself What You
Needed To Do ]
[ You Knew It Was Going To Be A Bumpy Ride ]
[ But It Did Make Sense ]
[ When It Came To Rooting For Tom Brady’s Team ]
[ You Were Never On His Side Of The Fence ]
[ When You Now See That Cowboys Star You Ask ]
[ (I HAVE TO ROOT FOR THAT?) ]
[ Oh Yes, You Were Told ]
[ & You Have To Root For A Quarterback ]
[ Named (DAK) ]
[ You Tell Yourself That This Won’t Be All That Bad ]
[ Their Roster Does Not Make You Feel Sad ]
[ But You Would Walk (10) Miles ]
[ To See One Of Cavarona’s Smiles ]
[ The Love You Have For Your Best Friend Runs Deep ]
[ You Hope That After A Day Rooting For Her ‘Boys ]
[ Doesn’t Keep You From Getting A Good Night’s Sleep ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(766)▪︎[ Stop To Smell The … ? … 9•10•2021 ]
[ Are You That (1) Sheep That Always Gets Lost? ]
[ @ The Highest Cost? ]
[ Are You The One That Is Always So Sick ]
[ & Plays Russian Roulette ]
[ With A Semiautomatic? ]
[ Instead Of Involving ]
[ A Gun That Keeps Revolving? ]
[ What Is It About That Game ]
[ That Is Never The Same? ]
[ Who Wins? ]
[ Then, Who Is To Blame? ]
[ The Lost Sheep Does Not Follow ]
[ A Single Soul ]
[ He Is Not Defined, By Any Social Role ]
[ Or Was Counted, In Any Census Poll ]
[ The Lost Sheep Keeps Meeting People Who Are So Shallow ]
[ He Feels The Words That He Hears, Sound Hollow ]
[ Nobody Has Any Depth To Their Words ]
[ Especially After Everything That Has Occurred ]
[ There Seems To Be So Many Clowns Walking The Street ]
[ So Many Wrong People That He Has To Meet ]
[ In His Lifetime ]
[ Before He Can Meet The Lemon ]
[ That Goes With His Lime ]
[ He Wants To Meet, Someone ]
[ Who Makes The Nights, Sublime ]
[ Not Any Of These (YES PEOPLE) That He Sees On The
Sidewalks ]
[ Who Wants To Have These Monotonous Talks ]
[ They Want To Have (BRUNCH) ]
[ Instead Of Having An Ordinary Lunch ]
[ Whatever Is In Style ]
[ … For Awhile ]
[ The Lost Sheep Has No Shelter ]
[ He Gets Tired Of Reading About Manson’s Dream Of Helter
Skelter ]
[ He Was Whackier Than The Lost Sheep Was Lonely ]
[ If Only ]
[ Someone Was Always On The Other End Of The Phone ]
[ When He Only Hears The Dial Tone ]
[ It Makes Him Feel More Alone ]
[ He Could Run Back & Join The Flock ]
[ & Then Aimlessly Walk ]
[ From Field To Field ]
[ Not Even Trying To Yield ]
[ To Stop & Smell The Flowers ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(723)▪︎[ It’s All In Your Head … 8•29•2021 ]
[ Pain Really Is The Guy That Rules The Roost ]
[ Everytime That He Shows Up For The Party ]
[ You Need An Adrenaline Boost ]
[ Pain Bulldizes Right Over Happiness Or Feeling Glad ]
[ When He Leaves ]
[ Everything Is Sad ]
[ Travel Travels Or Shows Up Carrying A Full Suitcase ]
[ It Will Camp Out ]
[ In Your Toes, Or In Your Face ]
[ It Packs A Wall-Up Or It Can Be A Little Nagging Bitch ]
[ It Can Even Come In The Form Of An Itch ]
[ Sometimes Pain Can Put You On Your Seat ]
[ It Can Hit Your Back So Fast & Hard ]
[ It Can Knock You Off Your Feet ]
[ When It Comes On Really Fast ]
[ The Feeling Can Last & Last ]
[ It Can Give You A Bloody Nose ]
[ It Can Be In Your Feet & Your Toes ]
[ Oftentimes There Will Be, No Blood In Site ]
[ That Does Not Mean That It Is Not There To Fight ]
[ Pain Can Make You Feel Beat ]
[ It Can Even Affect When, Or What, You Want To Eat ]
[ It Does Not Matter Your Weight Or Height ]
[ Pain Can Also Ruin Your Night ]
[ In The Large Ring ]
[ Of Feelings ]
[ Pain Has Always Been King ]
[ Deep, Throbbing Or Sharp ]
[ Pain Is Not So Quiet That You Could Hear A Harp ]
[ Pain Can Travel From Your Back Clear Down Your Leg ]
[ To Get It To Stop Where It Starts ]
[ You Can’t Even Beg ]
[ So It Won’t Affect Any Other Parts ]
[ Pain Always Goes Wherever It Wants ]
[ Scars Are Not What Pain Flaunts ]
[ But Sometimes Scars, Is What Pain Sometimes Leaves ]
[ Some Cannot Be Covered With Pants ]
[ Or A Shirt That Has Long Sleeves ]
[ Scars Can Be Left On The Head Or Face ]
[ Pain Can Go All Over The Place ]
[ Some Pain Is In Your Head ]
[ Some Diagnosis’s Have Been Totally Misread ]
[ But Then Something That One Of Your Doctors Said
That Made You Take Everything You Think Of Pain ]
[ But He Also Explained ]
[ (ALL PAIN IS IN YOUR HEAD) ]
[ He Said ]
[ There Is A Part Of Your Brain That Registers Pain Some
Where On Your Body ]
[ & This Goes For Everybody ]
[ There Are Dr’s. That Make You Feel That It Is (ALL IN YOUR
HEAD) Meaning They Cannot Find Anything Wrong ]
[ & His Office Or The Hospital Is (NOT) Where You Belong ]
[ Basically Saying (YOU’re FAKING IT) Right Then ]
[ He Wasn’t There When … ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(722)▪︎[ Thanks To A Man That You Never Knew … 8•28•2021 ]
[ Back In June Of ’86, A Basketball Player Named Len Bias Was A
Man That You Never Knew ]
[ You Read That He Was A Phenomenal College Basketball Player ]
[ Who Got Picked By The Boston Celtics When They Had Pick (#2) ]
[ In That Years NBA Draft ]
[ When The Commissioner Announced His Name ]
[ Nobody Laughed ]
[ So Then ]
[ Len ]
[ Went To A Party That Night With Some Friends ]
[ He Made A Fatal Mistake With One Single Choice ]
[ Nobody Talked To Him In A Reasonable Voice ]
[ The Kind ]
[ That Would Have Tried To Change His Mind ]
[ He Got Talked Into Snorting A Line Of Cocaine ]
[ It Went Straight To His Brain ]
[ His Friends Didn’t Lie ]
[ It Instantly Gave Him A High ]
[ But Then The Cocaine Went Into Overload ]
[ & Made His Heart Explode ]
[ He Was Dead Before ]
[ He Hit The Floor ]
[ The Drug Was Something That You Tried About (4) Times In
The Years Prior ]
[ It Felt Like Such A Nice High ]
[ But Thankfully The Need For It Didn’t Become Dire ]
[ Both Of Your Blood Siblings Were Addicted To Drugs &
Alcohol @ (1) Time ]
[ Your Older Sister Would Spend Her Last Dime ]
[ For Her Next Fix ]
[ If You Wanted To See The Effects Of More Than (40) Years
Of Hard Drug Use ]
[ Just Look @ Her Pics ]
[ You Knew That Addiction Runs In Your Family History In
The Past ]
[ It Seems Like She Took One Taste Of Something ]
[ & She Got Addicted Really Fast ]
[ The Night That Your Biological Father Came Home Drunk ]
[ & Then He Shot Himself In His Head After Trying To Murder
His Girlfriend ]
[ Your Heart Sunk ]
[ That Should Have Been A Huge Warning Sign For You
& Your Sister @ A Very Young Age ]
[ You Had Front Row Seats To The Stage ]
[ Watching The Ultimate Act Of Rage ]
[ So Your Handful Of Tastes With Cocaine Was Walking
A Fine ]
[ Line ]
[ When You Read That Sports Illustrated During That Month
Of June ]
[ It Woke You Up Out Of Your Personal Cocoon ]
[ It Showed What Drugs Can Do ]
[ If That Could Happen To A Finely Tuned Athlete ]
[ That Could Happen To You Too ]
[ The Death Of Len Bias Probably Saved You From A Possible
Life Of Drug Use ]
[ Thankfully It Never Got To The Level Of Drug Abuse ]
[ It Is Sad To Say That A Death Saved Your Life ]
[ Reading About Len Bias’s Death Turned On A Very Bright
Light ]
[ A Light, That Has Yet To Fade ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(721)▪︎[ There Was A Dream … 8•27•2021 ]
[ Dreams Are Wonderful Things ]
[ Filled With Jokers, Queens & Kings ]
[ One Night You Could Be A Top Notch Card Player ]
[ Then The Next Night You Could Be A Hay Bailer ]
[ Bucking 100lb Bales Of Hay On A Truck ]
[ Learning How To Earn An Honest Buck ]
[ You Could Almost Dream Of Anything ]
[ One Night Of Make Believe ]
[ Has You On The Stage Of AGT ]
[ Up There With A Mike In Hand ]
[ You Could Dance Around ]
[ Or Be Still In Front Of The Mike Stand ]
[ Maybe It Could Have You Dancing With The Jabbo Wakkies ]
[ As You Dance, You Find That You Are The Lead ]
[ Maybe You Dream One Night ]
[ That You Woke Up One Morning & Found That You Could
Write ]
[ Not Little Things Like (MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB) ]
[ But Amazing Stories Where Some People Say (DAMN) ]
[ You Write Another & Then It Is @ Least (2) Every Day ]
[ Before That Day You Never Knew The Way ]
[ Of Expressing Yourself In A Positive Manner ]
[ Now It Is More Than The Friendly Banter ]
[ So Is This Still A Dream? ]
[ You Say (NO) As Things Seem ]
[ You Spend Hours & Hours Of Writing Down Your Thoughts ]
[ They Definitely Do Not Come From Robots ]
[ They Have Feeling, Vision & Depth ]
[ You Even Write Stories That Have Made Others Wept ]
[ Those Are The One’s That You Kept ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1305)▪︎[ Self-Preservation … 12•2•2019 ]
[ You Walk On Egg Shells For Self-Preservation ]
[ Your Stomach Is Empty ]
[ & Your Brain Suffers From Starvation ]
[ It Needs Food For Thought ]
[ Knowledge About Life Can’t Be Bought ]
[ Life Has To Be Experienced ]
[ & Nothing Is Permanent ]
[ Only Different ]
[ You’ve Put Up A Wall To Keep The Bad Out ]
[ Do The Lyers Have The Loudest Shout? ]
[ Then When They Don’t Destroy Everything About You ]
[ They Sit In The Corner & Pout ]
[ But They Want You Looking @ Them While They Do This ]
[ Their Number One Wish ]
[ Is To Find Someone Weaker To Diss ]
[ To Put Down, To Demolish ]
[ They Leave You As A Shell Of What You Used To Be ]
[ They Count The Minutes To When They See ]
[ You ]
[ Taking A Knee ]
[ On The Way To The Ground ]
[ They Pound, Pound, Pound ]
[ & Kick All Of The Support You Have ]
[ So There Is Nowhere But Down ]
[ What Will It Take ]
[ For Them To See Their Own Mistakes? ]
[ But Then They Proudly Protest (THOSE ARE THE
BREAKS) ]
[ A Mistake Here & A Mistake There ]
[ Those Kinds Of People ]
[ Have No Heart & Don’t Care ]
[ If They Had Two ]
[ They Still Wouldn’t Share ]
[ They Would Never Share The Good Times ]
[ Only The Bad ]
[ They’d Only Read The Rhymes ]
[ Where The Results Were Sad ]
[ Why Can’t You Summon Up The Nerve ]
[ & Kick Those People To The Curb ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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