[ Damn! ]
[ Man ]
[ We Had Made So Many Plans ]
[ Now I Have None! ]
[ Where’s The Fun? ]
[ It’s Gone! ]
[ You’ve Moved On ]
[ There Goes The Wheelchair Races That We Had Planned When
We Got Old ]
[ Now A Chunk Of My Heart Has Gone Cold ]
[ Who Am I Going To Give A Hard Time When They Vote For
Trump & Pence? ]
[ C’mon, Don’t Leave Me In Suspense! ]
[ Because That Vote Just Doesn’t Make A Bit Of Sense! ]
[ So I See By Her Shirt That You Have Politically Infected
Your Daughter ]
[ Oh, It’s Always The Youngest Who Pays For The Sins Of
The Father ]
[ What About Our Hours Long Talks? ]
[ What About Our Hours Long Walks ]
[ You Were My Brother! ]
[ You Are My Brother! ]
[ You Will ALWAYS Be My Brother! ]
[ Even Though You Are No Longer On This Earth ]
[ You Have Not ]
[ Will Not ]
[ Ever Lose Your Worth ]
[ We Have Not Seen Each Other In Years ]
[ & It Was A Long Time Ago Since We Were Conversing ]
[ But Your Voice Is Still In My Ears ]
[ I Miss You So Much, Little Bro! ]
[ Why Did You Have To Go? ]
[ Nobody Can Answer That ]
[ So I Will Never Know ]
[ We Were Coming Out To See You In A Week Or Two ]
[ Oh, If I Would Have Known ]
[ I Would Have Come To See You ]
[ Earlier ]
[ I Will Always Miss You ]
[ I’m Always Thinking Of You ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ 2020 Stories ]
(156)[ Could Be A Sad Day … 2•18•2020 ]
[ Today Could Be A Really Sad Day, If I Let It ]
[ The Thoughts In My Head Have Not Taken A Grip ]
[ Actually My Thoughts Have Been Completely Split ]
[ Which Way Do I Go, What Am I Expected To Do ]
[ Why Should I Ask You? ]
[ What Kind Of Experience Do You Have In These
Kinds Of Things? ]
[ I’d Like To See ]
[ What Your Experience Brings ]
[ When Someone Brings Me Their Story ]
[ As They Are Telling Me About P.T.S.D. ]
[ I Get A Little Wary ]
[ Do You Really Have The Disorder ]
[ Or A Really Harmful Memory? ]
[ Okay, You Experienced, Saw Or Heard Something That
Made It A Bad Event ]
[ So, Now Does Your Mind Get Bent? ]
[ When You Start To Relive How It All Went? ]
[ Or You Just Remember It Well ]
[ You’re Not Reliving The Sight, Sounds Or Smells ]
[ Is It Hard To Get Some Sleep? ]
[ & It’s Next To Impossible To Get Some That’s Very Deep ]
[ I Can’t Let What Has Happened The Last Couple Of Days Get Me
Down ]
[ Send Me Crawling On The Ground ]
[ I’ll Get Up On Own ]
[ To Keep My World Going Around ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(232)▪︎[ The Cup … 3•6•2020 ]
[ Is What You Are About To Do Greater Or Less Than The Benefit
That You Seek? ]
[ Would It Benefit You Week After Week? ]
[ Or Only For A Minute Of Time? ]
[ As You Write This Rhyme? ]
[ Say What You Feel ]
[ Don’t Be Fake ]
[ When Keeping It Real ]
[ You Can Never Feel That You’ve Tied Every Loose End Up ]
[ There’s Bound To Be Something Left In The Cup ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(303)▪︎[ We Miss You … 3•24•2020 ]
[ We’re Sending A Heartfelt Message To You, Mom & Dad ]
[ It’s Been So Many Days Since We’ve Seen You ]
[ & That Makes Us Sad ]
[ We Would Never Want To take That Dangerous Chance ]
[ Of Making You Sick ]
[ So That’s Why We’ve Taken This Stance ]
[ As They Say That Our Greatest Wealth ]
[ Is Our Good Health ]
[ When Will This Pandemic End, Nobody Knows ]
[ If We Go By What The Facts That The A.G. Shows ]
[ Nobody Knows Yet When & How This Virus Slows ]
[ Mom, You Said That You Wished That You Could Have
Given Me A Hug When You Read That Story About My Brother ]
[ You Have No Idea How Important It Has Been For Me To
Be Able To Look @ You Like A Mother ]
[ & Once They Have Control Of This Virus Bug ]
[ I Will Collect That Hug ]
[ Ever Since I Met Your Daughter I Knew She Would Be My Wife ]
[ & Throughout Our Marriage You Two Have Been Such Positive
Influences In My Life ]
[ I Look Back & Think It Was A Shame ]
[ That It Took Me So Long ]
[ To Ask You For The Honor To Carry On Your Last Name ]
[ It Has Been Awhile ]
[ Since You’ve Been Able To Welcome Us Into Your House ]
[ Always Having A Smile ]
[ Nobody Knows When ]
[ This Self-Quarentine Will End ]
[ My First Words Will Be ( HOW HAVE YOU TWO BEEN? ) ]
[ I Feel So Bad ]
[ For Others ]
[ Who Don’t Feel That Their In-Laws Love Them Like A Mom & Dad ]
[ You Two Have Never Needed To Persist ]
[ That Such Wonderful In-Laws ]
[ Like Your Family Exists ]
[ If I Could Store Love In A Bank ]
[ I’d Be Rich ]
[ I’d Have Your WHOLE Family To Thank ]
[ Your Family Has Truly Shown & Taught Me What Family Love Is ]
[ So I’ll End This ]
[ With A Virtual Hug ]
[ Love, Your Son-In-Law ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(250)▪︎[ Alot Of Don’ts … 3•10•2020 ]
[ Don’t Hate What You Do Not Understand ]
[ Don’t Expect A Thing When You Demand ]
[ Don’t Judge What You Do Not Know ]
[ Don’t Parent By Always Say ( BECAUSE I SAID SO ) ]
[ Don’t Say ( I LOVE YOU ) Just To Get Respect ]
[ Do Things That You Want Done So You Don’t Expect ]
[ Don’t Take What You Have Not Bought ]
[ Don’t Take For Granted All That You’ve Got ]
[ Don’t Look To Others ]
[ To Be A Surrogate Mother ]
[ Don’t Say You Live Alone ]
[ When You Have Someoout Waiting For You ]
[ When You Get Home ]
[ Don’t Say You’re Honest, When You’ve Lied Plenty ]
[ Don’t Say That You Tell The Truth, When Your Lies Have Been Many ]
[ Don’t Say You Are A Person Of God When All You Do Is Judge ]
[ Don’t Say That You Are A Forgiving Person, When All You Do Is Hold A Grudge ]
[ Don’t Hate, What You Can’t Have Today ]
[ Work Hard For Your Pay ]
[ Then Feel Good That You Found A Way ]
[ To Get It Some Day ]
[ Treat My Dog With The Same Respect As You Do Me ]
[ I Want Her To Be As Happy As Can Be ]
[ Don’t Say You Do Hard Labor When Your Hands Are Soft ]
[ Don’t Say You Have An Upstairs ]
[ When All That You Have Is A Loft ]
[ Don’t Say You’re A Peaceful Person, When All You Do Is Yell ]
[ & Through Your Actions, Put Others Through Hell ]
[ Don’t Turn On Cold Water Expecting It To Be Hot ]
[ Don’t Say ( I’ve HAD A HARD DAY ) When All You Have Done
Is Sit & Play X-Box ]
[ Don’t Say That You Can Build When All That You Do Is Tear Down ]
[ Don’t Say That You Love The Circus When You Are Always Afraid Of The Clowns ]
[ Don’t Say You’re Rich, When You Can’t Spare A Penny ]
[ Don’t Say You Have Alot, When You Can’t Show Any ]
[ Don’t Put Your Faith Into Something/Someone You Don’t Believe ]
[ Don’t Say ( BELIEVE ME ) & Then Deceive ]
[ Them ]
[ If You Want To Pay For Someone’s Time ]
[ Expect To Pay More Than A Nickel Or A Dime ]
[ If You Are Allowed To Read What Someone Wrote ]
[ Do Not Say That You Can Do Better & Gloat ]
[ Maybe Someone’s Written Word ]
[ Is Not The Best You’ve Ever Heard ]
[ But, You Found There Was A Nice Mixture Of Nouns & Verbs ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hono mom u mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(246)▪︎[ The Spark … 3•9•2020 ]
[ When The Sun Goes Down & The Moon Comes Out ]
[ What Do You Think About? ]
[ Do You Reminisce About How The Day Went? ]
[ & How You Were Able To Call Your Partner & Vent? ]
[ Did They Listen With Open Ears? ]
[ Or Did It Seem Like You Were Talking About Subjects
That They Didn’t Want Hear? ]
[ Did It Seem Really Clear? ]
[ That They Didn’t Want To Listen Here? ]
[ Were The Problems Solved? ]
[ Was Your Partner Involved? ]
[ If So, How Much? ]
[ Did They Always Try To Avoid Talking About Such & Such? ]
[ How True Were These Last Lines? ]
[ Do You Think Your Relationship Is Still Doing Fine? ]
[ Sometimes They Come Across Aloof & Vacant ]
[ You Want Them To Stay 10 More Minutes ]
[ But They Quickly Say ( I CAN’t ) ]
[ You Wonder Where It All Went Wrong? ]
[ Your Talks Used To Be Deep & Long ]
[ Now You Don’t Know What’s Going On ]
[ Are You Thinking That The Spark Is Gone? ]
[ Did It Blow Out Long Ago? ]
[ Or Didn’t You See It ]
[ Because The Regression Was So Slow? ]
[ So How Do You Make A Spark That Starts A Flame? ]
[ First Thing You Do Is Stop The Blame ]
[ Game ]
[ That Does Not Help Each Other ]
[ To Stay Together ]
[ It Doesn’t Help Trying To Be Their Father Or Mother ]
[ You Must Let Them Be Themselves ]
[ & Don’t Try To Make Them Like Someone Else ]
[ Like Someone From Your Past ]
[ Since You Are Not Still With That Person ]
[ Obviously That Relationship Did Not Last ]
[ But Everyone Has Advice That You Don’t Have To Take ]
[ & Sometimes Some People Come Across Aloof & Fake ]
[ Can You Do Anything About That? ]
[ Maybe The Next Time That You Come Up To Bat ]
[ You Can Wipe Your Shoes Off @ The Doormat ]
[ That’s Better Than Wiping Them Off On Somebody’s Back ]
[ You Have To Stop The Hurt ]
[ & Give Him Back His Shirt ]
[ But You Could Wash It First ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(312)▪︎[ We Have To Wait … 3•27•2020 ]
[ What Does The Word Freedom Mean To You In Your World ]
[ With This Isolating Does It Feel Twirled? ]
[ Off Of It’s Axis ]
[ What’s Next For Us? ]
[ No, You Can’t Go Out There ]
[ Where? ]
[ Anywhere! ]
[ How Do You Feel Love ]
[ Through A Latex Glove? ]
[ Can’t You See ]
[ This Is How Things Must Be ]
[ Do You Have It? ]
[ Does She? ]
[ The Thing About This Virus Is That You Don’t Know
Until It’s Too Late ]
[ Then You Find Out That Where You Ate ]
[ Infected Your Mate ]
[ Or Did You ]
[ Put Together The Two Plus Two ]
[ Who Were They Always Around? ]
[ Do You Not Like The Answer You Found? ]
[ That Is Why We Must Wait ]
[ & Self-Isolate ]
[ Being In The House Is Making You Feel Lazy ]
[ Your Memory Has Become Hazy ]
[ How Do You Stay Sharp? ]
[ When The Boredom Is Tearing You Apart? ]
[ Do You Really Need To Go To The Store? ]
[ Do You Need To Run That Errand? ]
[ Just One, Maybe More? ]
[ Things Are So Dire ]
[ You Don’t Stand Up In A Theatre & Yell ( FIRE ) ]
[ You Could Make So Many People Sick ]
[ Because Of The Panick ]
[ No One Wants To Quarantine A Day Longer Than Need Be ]
[ It Will Be Great ]
[ When We Can Go Back To Being The Land Of The Free ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(273)▪︎[ Some Words … 3•17•2020 ]
[ The World Has Now Turned Upside Down With A Snap ]
[ If You Have Not Heard Of This Virus ]
[ You Must Have Been Taking A Nap ]
[ Now People Are Being Quarantined From Each Other ]
[ But They Say That We Must Remain Separate But Together ]
[ What Exactly Does That Mean? ]
[ Are We Just Supposed To Be Heard? ]
[ Not Seen? ]
[ The Virus Is Everywhere ]
[ Yes It’s There, There & There ]
[ The Main Thing Is That We Can’t Be In A Group
Or A Bunch ]
[ No More Meeting For Breakfast Or Lunch ]
[ One Thing We Will Miss So Much ]
[ That Is Seeing & Loving Each Other Through Touch ]
[ When Will This End, Nobody Can Predict ]
[ The Virus Doesn’t Care Who Gets Picked ]
[ & To Think That This All Started Because Of A Bat ]
[ Now It Affects All Of This ]
[ & All Of That ]
[ The Poor Workers That Got Sent Home Or Got Laid Off ]
[ Some Have To Dip Into Their Sick Leave ]
[ Without Sneezing Or Having A Cough ]
[ My Wife Works @ A Job Where She Can’t Do It From Home ]
[ Some Of Her Fellow Employees Have Traveled ]
[ To Some Places Unknown ]
[ We Were Supposed To Travel, Too ]
[ But Then We Canceled Everything Because Of What We Knew ]
[ We Definitely Understand & Don’t Oppose ]
[ That Where We Were Going ]
[ Everything Was Closed ]
[ So When You All Are @ Home Don’t Be Down Or Get Lazy ]
[ Call Someone That Makes You Laugh ]
[ So You Don’t Go Stir Crazy ]
[ I Know What I’ll Do With These Longer Days Of Light ]
[ I’ll Keep My Phone On ]
[ & Use The Thoughts That I Have That Compel Me To Write ]
[ Some Thoughts Come Quick, But Others Are Slow ]
[ What Tomorrow Brings ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ The Lead Doctors & Scientists Do Not Even Know What Comes
Next ]
[ We’re Dealing With A Virus So We Don’t Know What To Expect ]
[ So,We, I Mean Us, Who Want To Live To Grow Old ]
[ Trust The Smart People ]
[ & Do As We’re Told ]
[ I Love Writing Story After Story ]
[ Not For The Praise ]
[ Or The Glory ]
[ With All The Thoughts That Don’t End ]
[ It’s Warm Thoughts That I Send ]
[ To My Loved Ones & Friends ]
[ Everyone Stay Safe ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(277)▪︎[ The Chase … 3•18•2020 ]
[ In Life, Are You Chasing Your Dreams? ]
[ Or Listening To The Screams ]
[ Of Doubt? ]
[ What Is That About? ]
[ Dreams That We Can’t Help That We Keep Reaching For? ]
[ Is There A Magical Door ]
[ That Leads You To The Ground Floor? ]
[ When You Reach It, Then What? ]
[ Does The Dream Machine Close Down & Shut? ]
[ What About The Next One ]
[ & The One After That? ]
[ Are Things Not Fun ]
[ When You Throw It Down To The Mat? ]
[ Who Objects ]
[ If You Raised Your Hand ]
[ & Asked ( SO, WHAT’s NEXT? ) ]
[ Do You Have The Guts To Keep Going On? ]
[ Is The Drive Gone? ]
[ What Could Go Wrong? ]
[ If You Remain Strong? ]
[ Nothing ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(275)▪︎[ Just Another Day In Paradise … 3•18•2020 ]
[ Would It Be Considered Controversial? ]
[ To Think That Society ]
[ Has To Go Through It’s Day Being So Impersonal? ]
[ Can We Touch Without Being Touched? ]
[ Can A Boxer Win ]
[ Without Getting Punched? ]
[ Sometimes Questions Come Up That Has No Answer ]
[ There Are Unexplained ]
[ Causes For Cancer ]
[ But We Search For The Unexplainable ]
[ The Impossible ]
[ We Want To Make Sense Of It All ]
[ When You’re Perplexed ]
[ Who Do You Want To Call? ]
[ Mom Or Dad? ]
[ Tom Or Chad? ]
[ What If None Of Them Are Around? ]
[ Both Of My Dad & Mom ]
[ Are In The Ground ]
[ Now You Can’t Walk Outside To Go Downtown ]
[ There’s Barely Another Person ]
[ To Be Found ]
[ Look Up Center Street ]
[ Or Go Down State A Few Feet ]
[ The World As We Knew It Six Months Ago ]
[ Is Gone ]
[ Is This A Slow ]
[ Con? ]
[ Brought About Because Of A Master Conspiracy? ]
[ What’s Your Theory? ]
[ Is This The Armageddon? The Apocalypse? ]
[ Or Nature’s Form Of A Time-Out? ]
[ Is This Ever Going To Make Sense? ]
[ This, Is One Of Those Things That I Doubt ]
[ Are You The Type ]
[ To Believe The Hype? ]
[ Or Do You Only Act? ]
[ On The Facts? ]
[ Whatever The Choice ]
[ Don’t Use Your Voice ]
[ Just To Cause Noise ]
[ But Hey, I’ve Never Pretended To Teach ]
[ Or Preach ]
[ But My Life Is Mine ]
[ & Your Life Is Yours ]
[ I Think We Will All Do Fine ]
[ Behind Our Own Doors ]
[ & If Our Lives Intertwine ]
[ By Sharing The Same Floor ]
[ We All Have Our Role To Play ]
[ So Let’s Find A Way ]
[ To @ Least Have A Pleasant Day ]
[ Okay? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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