[ Can You Look In The Mirror & Be Happy With
What It Reflects? ]
[ Do You Have To Look Closely To Find Any Defects? ]
[ What If The Total Number Is None? ]
[ Are Your Efforts Done? ]
[ Is It One For All ]
[ & All For One? ]
[ Then The Battle Is Over ]
[ & There’s No More Fun ]
[ Do You Really Know What To Look For? ]
[ Is It Hiding Behind That Door? ]
[ Has It Fallen To Your Feet? ]
[ Okay, Do You Know When You’ve Been Beat? ]
[ Ahh, This Makes Me Hungry ]
[ So Let’s Get Us Something To Eat ]
[ What Happens When You Find ]
[ What You’ve Been Looking For In Your Mind? ]
[ Will That Put You In The Mood To Rewind? ]
[ Or … ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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Category: [ 2019 Stories ]
(1153)▪︎[ One Day Over & Over … 9•12•2019 ]
[ Could Others Imagine Reliving One Day Over & Over & Over Again? ]
[ Yes, You Can ]
[ & You Remember When This Merry-Go-Round Began ]
[ It Began On A Sweltering Hot Day in August 2002 ]
[ What Affects You Now, May Not Affect Others, Too ]
[ It Was A Very Muggy Day That Quickly Turned To Night ]
[ You Were A Witness To An Event ]
[ That Affected Your Hearing & Sight ]
[ The Thing That You Could Not Prevent ]
[ Was Something That Started With A Fight ]
[ It Was More Like A Beating ]
[ But One Half Of Those Combatants Used A Fire Extinguisher ]
[ & That Was Cheating ]
[ It Seemed Like There Was A Beating Every Half Hour ]
[ As You Stood In The Office ]
[ Feeling Like You Had No Power ]
[ You Didn’t Want To Just Sit ]
[ You Wanted To Go Out On The Floor ]
[ & End It ]
[ But You Were Directed To Do Nothing ]
[ Not Even Something During Those (3), Very Long Hours ]
[ No, Not A Thing ]
[ You Had To Wait ]
[ & See What The State S.W.A.T. Team Had To Bring ]
[ With Their Shouts ]
[ They Were Able To Get You Out ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(005)▪︎[ What’s Possible … 1•2•2019 ]
[ @ Times I See What’s Possible ]
[ Instead Of What’s Already Here ]
[ When Things Look Attainable ]
[ I Look For Ways To Make The Vision Clear ]
[ Some People Make Things Happen ]
[ Others Look To Dampen ]
[ The Bright Days Of Their Peers ]
[ & They’ve Been Doing That For Years ]
[ They Just Want To Rain On People’s Parades ]
[ They Do This Under The Disguise That They Are Playing
An Innocent Game Of Charades ]
[ Just Never Turn Your Back ]
[ & Watch Out For A Stab ]
[ @ The Beginning Of An Attack ]
[ For It Will Inevitably Come ]
[ Some People Around You Have No Heart ]
[ & Their Emotions Are Cold & Numb ]
[ Sometimes In Life You Have To Play The Game ]
[ It Might Be Different In Name ]
[ But Their Objective Is The Same ]
[ Disrupt The Calm ]
[ Hide Their Intentions In Their Clenched Palm ]
[ Then Let Them Out ]
[ When Others Show Doubt ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1144)▪︎[ Not The Good Kind Of Luck … 9•20•2019 ]
[ You Have Come To Notice That You Have The Luck Of A Cracked Mirror ]
[ The Bad Luck Keeps Showing Up ]
[ Year After Year ]
[ This Bad Luck Doesn’t End @ Seven Years & Then Go Away ]
[ No, This Bad Luck Is Here To Stay ]
[ Day After Long Day ]
[ It Affects Your Everyday Living ]
[ This Kind Of Luck Keeps Being ]
[ The Gift That Keeps On Giving ]
[ The One That You’re Not Seeing ]
[ Bad Luck Has Such A Profound Effect On Your Life ]
[ It’s Like The Switch ]
[ That Turns Out The Light ]
[ It’s Like The Seven Year Itch ]
[ That You Try Your Hardest To Fight ]
[ Bad Luck Trys To Pony Up To Your Side ]
[ Under The Pretense It’s Good Luck ]
[ Until You Figured Out It Lied ]
[ But By Then It’s Too Late ]
[ Because You Were Tricked ]
[ Into Thinking That This Luck Is Great ]
[ Great It Is Not ]
[ This Kind Of Luck Leaves You On The Spot ]
[ & It Usually Is Someplace Hot ]
[ Sometimes It Makes Your Life Be A Living Hell ]
[ This Is Not Something That Makes Your Heart Swell ]
[ This Is Something That Puts Out & Leaves A Bad Smell ]
[ In The Air ]
[ Because Bad Luck Doesn’t Actually Care ]
[ Bad Luck Does Not Do This On A Dare ]
[ You Start Wearing The Smell Like A Bad Suit ]
[ If You Ever Look For The Origin ]
[ It’s The Bad Luck That Took Root ]
[ You Won’t Win ]
[ Because You Can Never Give It The Boot ]
[ So Go Break As Many Mirrors As You Deem Fit ]
[ That Won’t Decrease Your Bad Luck One Bit ]
[ It Wears You Down & Makes You Want To Sit ]
[ & Just Take It ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1140)▪︎[ Same Blood, Not Family … 9•8•2019 ]
[ Just Because They Share The Same Blood ]
[ Doesn’t Always Make Them Family, Because ]
[ Blood Doesn’t Always Connect Your Soul & Heart ]
[ Some People With The Same Last Name ]
[ Have The Ambition To Tear Your Life Apart ]
[ Hatred Can Easily Course Through Their Veins ]
[ You Always Want Sunshine ]
[ While They Only Like It When It Rains ]
[ A Person You Meet By Dumb Luck ]
[ Could Be The Who That Always Keeps You Up ]
[ Even Though You Might Not Have The Same Blood ]
[ Doesn’t Mean You’ll Never Walk Through The Same Mud ]
[ You Can Be One Half Of A Twin Set ]
[ & Later On In Life ]
[ It Could Feel Like You Just Met ]
[ When You Take A Spouse ]
[ & Go Buy A House ]
[ You Start A Family Where The Blood Is Only Half Yours ]
[ But When You Follow Your Course ]
[ You’ll Find The Family That You Need To Find ]
[ & Then You Won’t Mind ]
[ That Some Of Your Family ]
[ Did Not Start Their Life As Part Of Your Family ]
~ 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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(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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(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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