(046)▪︎[ Love Dance … 4•25•2020 ]

[ Is Love A Chance? ]
[ Is It A Crazy Dance? ]

[ Do You Lead With Your Heart? ]
[ Taking The Chance That It Could Be Taken Apart ]

[ Is That The Chance That We All Take ]
[ When That Is The Choice That Some Of Us Make ]

[ Sometimes It Seems That The Choice Is Not Ours ]
[ Some Days You Regret Your Decision Within Hours ]

[ & In Many Ways ]
[ For Many Days ]

[ Is It One Big Taunt? ]
[ That You Just Don’t Get One Thing That You Want ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(354)▪︎[ It Is ALL A Chance … 4•9•2020 ]

[ Is Love A Chance? ]
[ Is It A Crazy Dance? ]

[ Do You Lead With Your Heart? ]
[ Taking The Chance That It Could Be Taken Apart ]

[ Is That The Chance That We All Take ]
[ When That Is The Choice That Some Of Us Make ]

[ Sometimes It Seems That The Choice Is Not Ours ]
[ Some Days You Regret Your Decision Within Hours ]

[ & In Many Ways ]
[ For Many Days ]

[ Is It One Big Taunt? ]
[ That You Just Don’t Get One Thing That You Want ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(1114)▪︎[ Are There Misunderstandings? … 12•14•2020 ]

[ Sometimes When We Need To Practice What We Preach ]
[ We Need To Learn What We Are Talking About, Before
We Attempt To Teach ]

[ Sometimes When I Show What I’ve Learned ]
[ You Should Give Me The Respect That I’ve Earned ]

[ For Me To Be Able To See The Other Side Of The Fence ]
[ & To Keep Me From Getting Tense ]
[ The Whole Idea That Is Put In Front Of Me, Must Make
Sense ]

[ As The Days Go By More & More ]
[ I Am Not Knowing If You Understand All Of My
Metaphors ]

[ During The Times That You May Be A Concrete Thinker ]
[ I Might Have On, My Creative Blinker ]

[ & You Will Be As Uncomfortable Taking On My Stress ]
[ As Much As I Would Look Bad Wearing Your Dress ]

[ We Each Have Our Own Cross To Bear ]
[ Just Like We Each Have Our Own Clothes To Wear ]
[ But Even As Much As We Try To Care ]
[ There Are So Many Stressers In Each Others Lives ]
[ That We Are Unaware ]

[ Of ]
[ That We Don’t Love ]
[ That Grip Us Like A Tight Glove ]

[ But What We Do Share ]
[ Is A Love For Each Other ]
[ That We Can’t Compare ]
[ Or That We Can’t & Don’t Find Anywhere ]

[ Else ]
[ Except From Within Ourselves ]

[ The Love & Understanding That We Do Not Give Any
Other Person In Our Life ]
[ Is The Love That We Have ]
[ & Have Gained ]
[ Because, For Almost 25 Years Now, We Have Been
Husband & Wife ]

[ @ That Very Second That I Said ( I DO! ) ]
[ I Knew ]
[ From That Point Forth ]
[ That The Only Thing That Mattered To Me For The Rest
Of My Life … Was You! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(436)▪︎[ & There You Sat … 4•30•2020 ]

[ Here You Sit In Quiet Solitude ]
[ Looking For Any Way To Change Your Attitude ]

[ Oftentimes The Time Goes By Extremely Slow ]
[ @ Times Nighttime Comes ]
[ & You Didn’t Know ]

[ Today Became Yesterday So Fast ]
[ Tomorrow, Things That You Are Doing Today ]
[ Will Be Part Of Your Past ]

[ Have You Ever Realized That Today Was Yesterday’s
Tomorrow ]
[ & Now There’s No Time To Borrow ]

[ Because Tomorow Is The Day ]
[ When They Want ]
[ You To Pay ]
[ & It’s No Taunt ]
[ Because That Is What They Always Say ]

[ Yesteryear ]
[ Still Seems So Near ]

[ But It Also Feels So Long Ago ]
[ & Next Year Holds Some Events ]
[ That Right Now You Don’t Know ]

[ Is Knowledge What You Seek? ]
[ Did You Ever Buy Next Year’s Calendar ]
[ Just So You Could Take A Peek? ]

[ What Did You Hear, What Did You See? ]
[ Would You Find Your Birthday ]
[ & Say ( HEY, THAT DAY IS FOR ME! )? ]

[ It Is Nice To See What Day Of The Week Your Birthday
Falls On ]
[ For Some, In This Year ]
[ Their Birthday Was Already Gone ]

[ Memories Would Be All That They Had ]
[ Hopefully They Are All Good ]
[ & Not Many That Were Sad ]

[ Some People That You Felt That You’ve Known Since Birth ]
[ Caught THAT Train ]
[ & Left This Earth ]

[ Concentrate Your Energy On Those That Are Still Here ]
[ & Near ]

[ Don’t Think Tomorrow Is Too Far Ahead ]
[ Because In A Few Hours ]
[ You Will Put This Day To Bed ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

( 01 )▪︎[ That Loss … 1•1•2021 ]

[ Have You Ever Been @ A Loss For That One Word? ]
[ Because Of Something You Just Heard? ]

[ It Was So Bizarre, You Did A Double Take ]
[ When You Thought About It Real Deep ]
[ You Said ( WHAT SENSE DOES THAT MAKE? ) ]

[ When You Think Of Such ]
[ Of A Comment ]
[ You Know That It Was Not So Much ]

[ So It Was About Time ]
[ That He Went His Way ]
[ & You Went Home To Get A Glass Of Wine ]

[ & In Some Weird Way ]
[ That Helped ]
[ You Have A Better Day ]

[ So When You ]
[ Look @ That Clue ]
[ You Knew ]
[ What To Do ]

[ The Next Time You See Him, Say ( HI ) ]
[ & Then Also ]
[ Say Your ( GOODBYE ) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(431)▪︎[ Have You Ever? … 4•29•2020 ]

[ Have You Ever Been So Out Of Sync ]
[ That When Someone Gives You A Wink ]
[ It Causes You To Blink? ]

[ Where Do You Look? ]
[ To Help You Explain ]
[ That You May Need To Find The Answer When You Read The
Right Book ]

[ Have You Stopped Giving A Damn? ]
[ So You Just Want To Go Back Outside ]
[ & Bury Your Head In The Sand? ]

[ How Do You Fill The Hole ]
[ In Your Soul? ]

[ What Would Fill The Hole Up ]
[ Real Tight ]
[ So It Stays Shut ]
[ Past Tonight? ]

[ Starting Above ]
[ The Middle Line ]
[ It Needs Lots Of Love ]
[ To Be Better Than Fine ]

[ Then You Find That You Do Not Like The Taste Of Dirt ]
[ So You Pull Your Head Out ]
[ & Deal With The Hurt ]

[ Hurt Can Eventually Subside ]
[ & Once Again You Feel Dignified ]
[ Unless Someone Lied ]

[ Then You Are Back To Where You Began ]
[ But This Time You Stand ]
[ Like A Grown Man ]

[ Without The Fear ]
[ Of Feeling Ridiculous & Ashamed ]
[ If You Happen To Shed A Tear ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(407)▪︎[ A Bad Flash … 4•23•2020 ]

[ I Just Came Out Of A Really Long, Hard Flashback ]
[ Now My Shoulder Hurts ]
[ But Not Even Close To The Pain That I Hurt In My
Lower Back ]

[ I Do Not Know What Is Causing These ]
[ If Anyone Knows ]
[ Could You Give Me The Answer Please? ]

[ & Right Away ]
[ If Not Today ]

[ Could You Bless Me With One Tomorrow? ]
[ Before I Have More Pain ]
[ & Sorrow? ]

[ Bad Back, Bad Back Go Away, Please ]
[ & If It’s For Only One Day ]
[ That Would Be A Tease ]
[ In Anyway ]
[ I Wish This Pain Would Ease ]

[ What Point Is It Trying To Make? ]
[ Subtracting Years Off Of My Life ]
[ Is What It Takes ]

[ & In It’s Place ]
[ Now I Have Much More ]
[ Wrinkles On My Face ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(395)▪︎[ If You Say So … 4•21•2020 ]

[ What Do You Do Next, When You Know What You Know ? ]
[ Do You Go ]
[ Where Others Say So? ]

[ Why Is That? ]
[ Why Not Be As Unpredictable & Wirey ]
[ As An Alley Cat? ]

[ What Is Holding You Down? ]
[ To Keep You Tied To A Tree In The Ground? ]

[ Can’t You See ]
[ How You Have Wanted & Needed To Be ]
[ Set Free? ]

[ To See The Things ]
[ That You Can Bring ]

[ You Can Be Colorful ]
[ & Loveable ]

[ But Sometimes That Is Not Very Fun ]
[ For Everyone ]

[ Nobody Likes To Be In A Place ]
[ Where Someone Is In Their Face ]

[ & It Makes Them Cough ]
[ So Others Back Off ]

[ Back Off & Back Up ]
[ When You Walk Out Through That Door ]
[ You Need To Make Sure That It Shuts ]

[ Behind You ]
[ Because That Will Undoubtedly Show ]
[ That You Do NOT Want To See This Through ]

[ Okay ]
[ You Say? ]
[ Okay ]
[ They Say ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(370)▪︎[ Too Dense … 4•14•2020 ]

[ Where Does Your Mind Go, When Your Body Falls Asleep ]
[ Does Your Mind Tell Your Mouth ]
[ To Not Make A Peep? ]

[ With All Of These Days Of Continuous Isolation ]
[ Do You Feel The Desolation? ]

[ Is There Confusion? ]
[ Or Is There Delusion? ]

[ What To Do, What To Do, With All Of This Free Time? ]
[ I Will Spend It All ]
[ Writing Rhyme After Rhyme ]
[ Not Making A Call ]
[ Just To Drop A Dime ]

[ Not All The Stories Are Worth Repeating ]
[ Don’t Turn Those Attempts ]
[ Into A Psychological Beating ]

[ But Where Does Your Mind Go ]
[ When Things Are Slow? ]
[ Do You Ever Know? ]

[ When My Mind Checks Out? ]
[ I Wonder ( WHAT’s THAT ALL ABOUT? ) ]

[ I Can Never Get An Answer That Makes Sense ]
[ Maybe I’m Too Dense ]
[ Or Others Don’t Want Me To Know What
Happens On That Side Of The Fence ]

[ So I Can Understand ]
[ The Demand ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(425)▪︎[ Was The Dream Real … 4•27•2020 ]

[ Sometimes I Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night ]
[ & I Have To Wipe The Fog Out Of My Eyes ]
[ So I Can Adjust To The Light ]

[ Then I See Something In The Shadows ]
[ I See Two Eyes & A Nose ]

[ Then I See ]
[ That I’m Looking In The Mirror ]
[ & It’s Me ]

[ I Look So Old ]
[ My Eyes Look So Cold ]

[ How Did Time Go By So Fast? ]
[ I Knew My Youthful Looks Wouldn’t Last! ]

[ But This Was Much Worse Than I Ever Expected ]
[ It Looked Very Obvious Up Close ]
[ It Was My Health That Was Neglected ]

[ My Skin Was Wrinkled & Gray ]
[ I Screamed @ The Mirror ]
[ Why Did I Let Myself Get This Way? ]
[ & It Became Clear ]
[ That I Didn’t Want To See What I Weighed ]

[ Then I Heard A Noise ]
[ It Was The Soft Sound ]
[ Of My Wife’s Voice ]

[ It Seemed ]
[ Like ]
[ She Was Startled Awake By My Scream ]
[ She Soothed Me ]
[ By Saying { YOU WERE JUST HAVING A BAD DREAM } ]

[ I Looked In The Mirror Once Again ]
[ I Saw That I Did Not Look Like Sin ]
[ Oh This Was A Win-Win ]

[ I Thanked My Wife For Waking Me Up ]
[ That’s When She Lifted Her Head ]
[ & Asked { I DID WHAT? } ]

[ So All That Was Real? ]
[ Now I Can’t Describe How Old I Feel ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]