[ The Nightmares Come & Go ]
[ It’s So Hard ]
[ When They Go By Slow ]
[ Sometimes The Ones From The Past ]
[ Last & Last & Last ]
[ Those Are The Ones That You Wish Went By Fast ]
[ What Do You Hear? ]
[ Are The Voices Far Away? ]
[ Or Are They Near? ]
[ When You Open Your Eyes, What Do You See? ]
[ Do You See Yourself? ]
[ Or Do You See Me? ]
[ Or Do You See Nothing @ All? ]
[ Are There Pictures On The Wall? ]
[ Are They Bare & Painted White? ]
[ To See Everything ]
[ Must You Turn On The Light? ]
[ Can You Hear What You’ve Seen? ]
[ Do The Voices Sound Mean? ]
[ Was It An Adult Voice Or A Teen? ]
[ Did You Trust It Sight Unseen? ]
[ Why Would You Put So Much Trust In What You Heard? ]
[ Was It The Sweet Sound Of A Bird? ]
[ Did You Believe Every Word? ]
[ Or Every Sound That It Made ]
[ When It Comes To Gullible ]
[ You Take The Cake ]
[ As Far As Being Loveable ]
[ That Is Not A Good Trait ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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Category: [ 2019 Stories ]
(1126)▪︎[ What Happened There? … 9•4•2019 ]
[ Have You Ever Woke From A Long Nap ]
[ & Feel Like You’ve Just Been Slapped? ]
[ It’s Not The Action That You Remember ]
[ It Was The Feel ]
[ If This Is Not September ]
[ Then I Have No Idea What Is Real ]
[ Can I Touch This? ]
[ Can You Hear That? ]
[ Was This His ]
[ Favorite Baseball Bat? ]
[ What Is It Doing Here? ]
[ This Shouldn’t Be Anywhere Near ]
[ This Place ]
[ Someone Could Hit Another Kid In The Face ]
[ Now I See Total Chaos ]
[ Right Now I Feel So Lost ]
[ Mattresses Are Being Piled Up Against Door ]
[ Water From The Busted Toilet ]
[ Is Starting To Cover The Floor ]
[ I Wish It Would Stop ]
[ But All I See Is More & More ]
[ The Sights, The Smells, The Sounds ]
[ When Will CS Make Their Rounds? ]
[ I’m All Alone In A 3 Hour Riot ]
[ If You Think This Is Easy ]
[ I’d Be Happy To Have You Try It ]
[ It’s Like Nothing I Have Experienced Before ]
[ These Flashbacks Scares Me Down To My Core ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1132)▪︎[ A Quiet Place … 9•6•2019 ]
[ Sometimes When I’m In A Quiet Place ]
[ My Mind Is So Loud ]
[ It’s Like Someone Came In & Got Up In Front Of My Face ]
[ & Then The Room Filled Up With The Voices Of A Crowd ]
[ I Call My Thoughts Clouds Because They Float In & Out ]
[ When A Cloud Stops ]
[ I Sit There & Wonder What This Cloud Will Be All About? ]
[ What’s The Subject ]
[ Why Did It Stop ]
[ If I Object ]
[ Would The Cloud Pop? ]
[ I’ve Never Heard A Cloud Pop & Then Watched It Fall Out Of My Sky ]
[ Then I’d Ask Myself [ WHY ] ]
[ Why Didn’t I Take On That One ]
[ It Looked Serious ]
[ Was I Always Looking For Something Fun? ]
[ If I Am, Then I’m In The Wrong Head ]
[ Maybe Those Thoughts Are For Someone Who’s Always
Happy Instead ]
[ I Should Have Taken A Risk & Toughed It Out ‘Till The End ]
[ If I Quit ]
[ What Kind Of Message Would That Send? ]
[ No Matter The Subject, I Need To Meet It Head On ]
[ Solve The Problem Or Issue ]
[ Until The Cloud Is Gone ]
[ I’ve Found That I Cannot Run From The Clouds That Are
Floating In My Head ]
[ An Aspirin Or Stronger Med ]
[ Doesn’t Help Me Fall Asleep On My Bed ]
[ I Can Feel The Ghosts Of My Past Coming Back To Say [ HELLO ] ]
[ They Especially Come Out When I’m The Most Mellow ]
[ Do I See Blue, Black, Red Or Yellow? ]
[ How Do The Clouds Make Me Feel? ]
[ The Cloud Itself May Be Imaginary ]
[ But The Problems Are Real ]
[ How I Feel Could Be The Gauge Of Whether The Day Will Be
Good Or Bad ]
[ When The Cloud Has That Much Control Of My Day ]
[ It Makes Me Sad ]
[ It Could Also Be The Healing Power For My Soul ]
[ I Always Need To Work On Patching The Hole ]
[ Made By The Actions During An Emotional Event ]
[ Only Then Will I Feel Whole ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1102)▪︎[ Moving Forward … 8•30•2019 ]
[ How Do You Move Forward By Living In The Past? ]
[ How Can Your Fractured Leg Heal Without Being
Set In A Cast? ]
[ All Types Of People Try Their Best ]
[ Sometimes You Become A Bother & End Up Being
A Pest ]
[ How Can You Try So Hard & Fail So Bad? ]
[ When You Don’t Try, Does That Make You Sad? ]
[ I Wonder, As I See You Standing There ]
[ Do You, Or How Do You Show That You Care? ]
[ How Would You Hand Things Out? ]
[ Do You Think That Money Earns You Clout? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1414)▪︎[ Just A Thought … 12•19•2019 ]
[ 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? ]
[ 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? ]
[ & It Crashes To 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 From A Single Thought ]
[ You Put Your Heart & Soul In 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 E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1430)▪︎[ Better Each Day … 12•25•2019 ]
[ Why Do I Take A Chance & Write Out My Thoughts? ]
[ Why Do I Attempt To Distinguish Myself Being Different Than Robots? ]
[ Do Robots Always Have A Story To Tell? ]
[ Sometimes I Just Want To Let Loose & Yell ]
[ Do I Have More Feelings Than A Robot Does? ]
[ If It’s There, It’s There ]
[ If It Were, It Was ]
[ How Do I Differenciate Myself From Others? ]
[ In Another Life ]
[ Do I Have More Sisters & Brothers? ]
[ I Don’t Want Another Useless, Throwaway Mother ]
[ More Brothers I Want, But More Sisters I Don’t ]
[ If It’s In A Fantasy Land That’s A Maybe ]
[ But In Real Life I Won’t ]
[ The Two Females I Grew Up With Were/Are/Make/
Made Horrible Sisters ]
[ They Left My Life ]
[ Acting Like Tornado Twisters ]
[ They Wreck Havoc With Everything They Touch ]
[ Their Hatred Towards Me Was A Little Bit Too Much ]
[ For Me To Be Around ]
[ It Seems That If They Had Their Way ]
[ They’d Knock Me To The Ground ]
[ But Like Always, I’ll Get Up EVERY … SINGLE … Time ]
[ & I Would Collect My Wits ]
[ & Write Out Another Rhyme ]
[ I’ll Never Let The Venom They Spewed Ruin The Rest
Of My Life ]
[ I Have Great In-Laws ]
[ & A Great Child & Wife ]
[ As I Grow Older ]
[ I Want To Grow Better ]
[ Not Colder ]
[ With My Writings There Is Always Room For Improvement ]
[ I Just Don’t Want To Grow Stagnant ]
[ Smarter, Yes ]
[ Not Dormant Or Ignorant ]
[ & Use This God-Given Gift As Long As I Possibly Can ]
[ Or As Long As God Has Me Be A Man ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1438)▪︎[ The Start Of A … 12•30•2019 ]
[ It’s Almost 0300 O’clock In The Morning & You Have
Yet To Close Your Eyes ]
[ In Just A Couple Of Hours ]
[ You Will Watch The Sun Rise ]
[ You Lie Here, Then You Sit Up Here ]
[ You Wish You Had The Sleeping Habits Of Your Peers ]
[ But You Have Never Been Like The Other Guys ]
[ Macking On Strange Women ]
[ & Then Telling Them Their Lies ]
[ They Are Wolves ]
[ In A Sheep’s Disguise ]
[ They Are Really Good @ Separating The Weak ]
[ From The Strong ]
[ The Ones That They Seek ]
[ Eventually Do Something Wrong ]
[ Why Do You Extend Your Days So Many More Hours? ]
[ When It Comes To Falling Asleep ]
[ You Have Lost All Of Your Powers ]
[ When You Don’t Take Your Xyrem You Get Very Little
Sleep ]
[ When You Do Take Your Xyrem ]
[ You Go Down Extremely Deep ]
[ Sometimes Too Deep For Your Own Comfort ]
[ It’s Like A Ship Being Kept Out Of Port ]
[ Things Will ]
[ Come To A Standstill ]
[ & That Could Cause Strife ]
[ In Your Life ]
[ Stay Outside Of The Dark On The Edge ]
[ You Don’t Want To Make Your Partners Feel ]
[ Like They Are Balancing On A Ledge ]
[ Be Strong & Don’t Budge ]
[ Above It All ]
[ Don’t Constantly Judge ]
[ People Can Turn That & Start Going Against You In
The Worst Way ]
[ You Don’t Want That Happening Today ]
[ Do You? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(865)▪︎[ Be Different, Be … 6•24•2019 ]
[ Right Now, We Don’t Live In Cardboard Boxes ]
[ With A Tin Roof ]
[ We Don’t Explode Like Rockets ]
[ With A Short Fuse ]
[ Try To Keep It On The Line ]
[ Don’t Keep Changing Lanes ]
[ Everything Will Come Back Fine ]
[ Try To Stay Steady & Slow It Down ]
[ Life Is Not A Race ]
[ To Get Lost In The Crowd ]
[ Even When You Turn Out The Light ]
[ You Can’t Hide That Kind Of Love In The Dark ]
[ But Even If The Light Is Bright ]
[ You Won’t Find Love In The Park ]
[ Nothing Is Impossible ]
[ Nothing Should Have Been ]
[ The Impossible Has Been Proven Possible ]
[ It Was Just A Matter Of When ]
[ This World Is Filled Up With People Having Paranoia ]
[ Some Just Can’t Handle Life Alone ]
[ Don’t Let That Annoy Ya ]
[ If They Don’t Come Home ]
[ Your Words Pierce My Soul ]
[ & Sends My Spirit Sky High ]
[ When I’m With You, I No Longer Feel Old ]
[ & I’m Not Telling You A Lie ]
[ When Your Eyes Look Right Through Me ]
[ & They Reflect ]
[ What Do They See ]
[ It Shows Me Respect ]
[ & The Man That I Want To Be ]
[ Be Different, Be Nice ]
[ Give Me A Smile ]
[ It Just Might Change Your Life ]
[ For Awhile ]
[ So Be Different, Shine Your Light ]
[ When You’re Not Looking ]
[ You Just Might Find Your Wife ]
[ Don’t Watch The News ]
[ Don’t Read The Papers ]
[ Everyone Has Different Views ]
[ & Sex & Violence Is The Staple ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1362)▪︎[ Well, Who? … 12•1•2019 ]
[ Who Are You In The Bigger Scheme Of Things? ]
[ Are You The One That Is Attached ]
[ Or Are You The One That Pulls The Strings? ]
[ Are You No Match ]
[ When The Phone Rings? ]
[ The Ring Of The Phone Shouldn’t Cause You To Run &
Hide ]
[ When You Fail To Take The Call ]
[ It Shouldn’t Cause A Downward Slide ]
[ A Ring Of The Phone Should Bring Optimism ]
[ Not Breed Pessimism ]
[ When You Don’t Act Or Speak Politically Correct ]
[ Pockets Of Society Treat You Like A Reject ]
[ & That’s Just Plain Wrong ]
[ But If You Stay Strong ]
[ You Can Show Them What You’re Really Made Of
Deep Down Inside ]
[ Where No One Can Get @ Your Mind ]
[ Your Mind Can Be Fragile Or Solid As A Rock ]
[ Solid When You Run Or Solid As You Walk ]
[ When You Stand To Speak ]
[ You’re Not Standing There To Talk ]
[ You Speak Your Mind & Say What You Want To Say ]
[ It’s Not Like It’s Your Way ]
[ Or The Highway ]
[ You Just Want To Be Around People Who Care ]
[ That Treat You Fair ]
[ Are There Such People Out There? ]
[ Somewhere? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1416)▪︎[ All The Way To The End … 12•19•2019 ]
[ Well, That Kind Of Does It, Closes A Chapter On A
Very Painful Part Of Your Life ]
[ Does That Mean That The Outlook On The Future Will
Be Bright? ]
[ You Never Thought It Would Go The Way That This
Finally Played Out ]
[ But You Also Didn’t Know What Wills Were All About ]
[ @ One Point In Your Life Barbara Told You That You
In Hers ]
[ You Didn’t Really Question That @ The Time ]
[ But Through This Silence You Were Not All That Sure ]
[ Now You’re Sure & That You Are Not ]
[ It Told You So In A Letter That You Just Got ]
[ It Plainly Stated That She Willed Absolutely Nothing
To You, You Plainly See ]
[ It Was There In Plain English For You To Read ]
[ You Guess She Wound Up Hating You More & More As
The Years Dragged On ]
[ She Probably Thought She Could Stick It In Your
Back ]
[ Even After She’s Gone ]
[ When She Told You To Get Out Of Her Life She Really
Meant It THROUGH The Very End ]
[ She Was So Rigid With Her Words ]
[ You Knew She Wouldn’t Bend ]
[ For People Who Are Mild & Meek ]
[ To Her, Forgiveness Was Done By The Weak ]
[ & She Was Anything But That ]
[ Just Like She Disliked Dogs ]
[ & Loved Her Cats ]
[ Her Cats Could Bring Her Home Dead Rats & She
Would Never Disown Them ]
[ She Never Thought Of Reconciling With Her Only Son,
Down In Salem ]
[ You Truly Wish She Lived Her Last Minutes Regretting
What She Did & Said ]
[ You Hoped She Had A Clear Recollection Of Your Last
Phone Call Running Over & Over In Her Head ]
[ Because Satan Was Waiting For Her @ The Door For
When She Would Finally Be Dead ]
[ Satan Was Waving @ Her Saying (COME HERE, COME
HERE) ]
[ (I KNOW YOU ONLY DRINK WINE, BUT WE’ll FORCE
YOU TO DRINK BEER!) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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