Category: [ Poetic Stories ]

(316)▪︎[ The Real Thing … 2026 ]

[ Life Can Be As Fragile As The Petals Of A Rose ]
[ Your Story Book Can Close ]
[ Because You Think That The World Ends @ The Tip Of Your  Nose ]

[ If That Is The Path That You Choose ]
[ Than It Is Common Sense That You Lose ]
[ Because When Someone Spells Out This Simple Fact ]
[ You Refuse ]
[ To Act ]

[ Actions Speak Much Louder Than Saying One Word ]
[ You Could Be Softly Talking ]
[ & Not Be Heard ]

[ Actions Are Not Heard, But They Are Seen ]
[ Even Emotions Can Be Nice Or Mean ]
[ Or Somewhere In-Between ]

[ When People Get Really Old ]
[ Some Get Bold ]
[ While Others Turn Bitter & Cold ]

[ They Push Their Loved Ones Away ]
[ It Takes Alot Of Talking ]
[ To Convince Them To Stay ]
[ & Go Walking ]

[ Life Can Also Be Defined By The Moments That We Don’t See Coming ]
[ You Can Face Them Down ]
[ Or Take Off Running ]
[ Around & Around ]

[ Searching ]
[ & Hurting ]

[ Because Every Moment Should Count ]
[ Even As The Pressures Mount ]

[ You Should Enjoy Everything ]
[ Even When You Feel That You Don’T Have Anything ]
[ Even Though Most People Feel ]
[ That The Almighty $ Is King ]
[ If You Surround Yourself With People Who Are Real ]
[ Money Does Not Mean A Thing ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(272)▪︎[ It Never Helps … 2024 ]

[ Everyone Grieves In Their Own Special Ways ]
[ It Could Take Years Or Just A Couple Of Days ]
[ Alot Of People Leave ]
[ Very Few Stay ]

[ For Someone To Believe ]
[ That They Would Receive ] 

[ Some Relief ]
[ No Matter How Brief ]
[ They Would Have To Have Some Form Of Belief ]

[ Believing In Something That You Can’t Touch ]
[ Is Tough ]

[ Blind Faith Is What Some People Call It ]
[ It Is Not Always A Hit ]
[ Some People Call It All Bullshit ]

[ Having Proof That Can Be Touched, Is One Thing ]
[ Some People Do Not Believe The Healing That Religion Can Bring ]
[ Is It All Held Together By String? ]

[ Does Religion Ever Work? ]
[ Or Is It Preached By A Jerk ]
[ With Kinky Quirks? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(302)▪︎[ What Was The Cost? … 2026 ]

[ It Is Amazing What You Can Accomplish ]
[ When You Do Not Care Who Gets The Credit ]
[ But It Is Not Like You Would Have An Aquarium Of Fish ]
[ Scream, “Hey, We Read It!” ]


[ Too Many People Walk Around Raising Their Hand ]
[ Then Demand ]


[ Credit For Something That Someone Else Just Did ]
[ Maybe They Have Done That ]
[ Since They Were A Young Kid ]


[ But They Never Got Credit For Anything That Was Done ]
[ When The Lies Got Hot ]
[ They Would Pack Their Things Up & Run ]
[ Because They Never Wanted To Exposed For Who They Are Not ]


[ They Are An Imposter ]
[ Acting Like A Player ]
[ But Never Good Enough To Have Their Name Placed On The Roster ]


[ They Have Never Found Anything That Could Fulfill Their Life ]
[ They Never Found A Husband ]
[ Because They Never Wanted To Be A Wife ]


[ They Weighed Their Options Between Public Safety & Personal Rights ]
[ Whenever They Tried To Decide ]
[ Their Brain & Soul Had Internal Fights ]


[ It Was Always @ A High Cost ]
[ Because They Could Never Account For What Was Lost ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(041)▪︎[ What Happened Next? … 2026 ]

[ You Laughed With Blaine Like Time Was Something You Could Bend ]
[ You Felt There Was Nothing Said ]
[ That You Would Have To Defend ]
[ & In Your Head ]
[ You Wished Moments Like This, With Her, Would Never End ]

[ Whenever Blaine Put Her Hand In Yours It Felt Steady, Warm & True ]
[ Did The World Finally Make Sense To You? ]
[ Were The Thoughts Of Your Future No Longer Looking Blue? ]

[ The Color Blue Makes Sense For The Sky Or The Ocean ]
[ But There Are Days When You Feel That All You Are Doing ]
[ Is Blindly Going Through The Motions ]
[ Without Either Giving Or Feeling ]
[ Any Devotion ]

[ From Either Side Of The So-Called Family Dimension ]
[ Maybe More Dissension ]
[ Than Connection ]

[ But Blaine Was Different ]
[ She Was Very Confident ]
[ Without Any Sign Of Arrogance ]
[ She Was Very Intelligent ]
[ With No Sign Of Ignorance ]

[ She Loved To Write ]
[ After Work, She Enjoyed Going To The Kickboxing Gym ]
[ To Learn How To Defend Herself @ Night ]
[ She Loved Feeling Slim ]
[ But Also She Loved Knowing How To Fight ]

[ Her First Marriage Was One Violent Domestic Abuse Incident After Another ]
[ It Got So Bad, She Had To Go (3) States Over ]
[ To Live With Her Big, Protective Brother ]
[ Never Again Did She Have To Run For Cover ]
[ & Thankfully Her Divorce Attorney Was Her Mother ]

[ She Took Everything From Her Spouse ]
[ His Nice Car ]
[ & The Nice House ]

[ She Wanted To Start Living A New Life ]
[ Without Being Told That All That She Would Ever Be ]
[ Is A Beaten Down Wife ]
[ She Wanted To See ]
[ What The World Could Be Like ]
[ Minus The Strife ]

[ That’s Where You Came Into The Picture ]
[ When You Just By Chance ]
[ Met Her ]
[ Through Happenstance ]
[ It Was You, That Just Wasn’t Sure ]

[ Because You Were Starting Over Again, Also ]
[ When You Both Started Talking & Sharing ]
[ You Did Not Actually Know ]
[ If She Was All That Caring ]

[ But When You Stopped Being So Guarded ]
[ The Feelings For Each Other Actually Started ]

[ You & Blaine Loved To Go On Long Walks ]
[ With Her (2) Very Large Dogs ]
[ Engaging In Long Talks ]
[ & Watching Freckles & Roxie Jumping Over Logs ]

[ It Wasn’t Love & First Sight ]
[ When You Took Her Out For A Bite ]
[ It Was Her Face Glowing In The Moonlight ]
[ That Made You Feel That This Was Going To Be Alright ]

[ Blaine ]
[ Had Been Put Through So Much Physical Pain ]
[ It Was The Emotional & Mental Kind ]
[ That You Had To Sustain ]
[ But All (3) Of Those Really Messes With A Person’s Mind ]
[ It Was All (3) Of Those That You Had Come To Disdain ]

[ You Never Had Any Premonition ]
[ If This Would Go The Distance ]
[ You Sure Could Use Your Imagination ]
[ If You Wanted To For Instance ]

[ But Love Can Fade Without A Sign ]
[ Or A Sound ]
[ All Of A Sudden There Could Be A Problem You Find ]
[ That Has You Kind Of Looking Around ]
[ You Think That It Is Benign ]
[ But Then You Are Knocked To The Ground ]

[ In The Blink Of An Eye ]
[ You Heard That Blaine Had Been Spending Alot Of Time With Another Guy ]
[ Her Upstairs Neighbor, Ryan ]
[ When You Started Asking, “Why?” ]
[ She Stuttered & Started Lying ]

[ You Didn’t Want To Hear Anymore ]
[ So You Decided To Go Home ]
[ When You Got To Your Place & Closed The Door ]
[ You Really Started Feeling Alone ]

[ It Would Be Quite The Find ]
[ If You Had A Dime ]
[ Everytime You Tried To Rewind ]
[ The Times ]
[ That You Watched The Hands Of The Clock Go Past The (9) ]

[ In The Darkness ]
[ Of The Evening ]
[ You Could Feel The Starkness ]
[ Because The Silence Was Deafening ]

[ But Then The Phone Rang … ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(356)▪︎[ What Smells Rotten? … 2024 ]

[ You Pay In Time ]
[ You Pay In Grit ]
[ Whenever Something Costs You A Dime ]
[ You End Up Hating Every Bit ]

  
[ You Pay In Dedication ]
[ You Grind It Out To Get Your Medication ]
[ All You Come Out With Was ]
[ The Feeling Of Aggravation ]

[ Don’t You Have A Trusting Face? ]
[ You Know That You Are Not A Darling Person To Look @ ]
[ Like A Pink, Pretty Bow, Made Of Lace ]
[ Or A Big Buddha, Which Is Bald & Fat ]


[ It Looks Like You Are Settling ]
[ It’s Going To Upset Those That Are Betting ]
[ Soon, Yes Really Soon, That Same Section, Will Be  Sweating ]

[ Sweating Up A Storm ]
[ Making The Back Of The Shirt, All Wet ]
[ This Would Not Be The Norm ]
[ You Would Bet ]

[ It Is A Dog Eat Dog World Out There Beyond, The Front  Door ]
[ Give An Ass An Inch ]
[ They Will Try To Take (5) More ]

[ Just So They Can Walk Away Bragging That They Took ½ A Foot From Right Under Your Nose ]
[ Those ]
[ Are The Type Of Person That You Would Want To Beat With A Garden Hose ]

[ & Then, To Show Them That They Stepped On Your Last Nerve ]
[ You Give Them A Whole New Proverb ]
[ When You Go Around A Blind Curve ]
[ You Kick Them To The Curb ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(448)▪︎[ No Progress … 2025 ]

[ Well, They Say That You Can Buy Roses In Red ]
[ Or You Could Buy Some Tulips In Blue ]
[ Most Of Society Is Really Screwed Up In The Head ]
[ But Some Would Ask, “Well, Who Knew?” ]


[ It Is Actually Good To Say ]
[ “That There Are Many Days” ]
[ “When They Are Not Feeling Okay” ]

[ The Homeless Do Not Care About Simple Flowers ]
[ When They Do Not Have The Power ]
[ To Take Any Showers ]

[ When You Don’t Know How To Express ]
[ Yourself ]
[ Does Success ]
[ Stay On The Garage Shelf? ]

[ How Do You Even Try To Get Out Of Your Own Way ]
[ It Never Happened Yesterday ]
[ Tomorrow Will You Have To Explain ]
[ What Happened Today ]
[ When You Showed Such Obvious Disdain? ]

[ For The Ways That Your Co-Worker Has Tried To Show You ]
[ There Have Been Struggles ]
[ In What She Is Showing You What To Do ]

[ Why Is That? ]
[ Is It Because She Is Showing You That You Must Be Wearing Many Hat’s? ]

[ If You Don’t Know How To Get Rid Of All The Excess ]
[ How Can You Process ]
[ All Of The Progress? ]

[ You Must Show A Thirst ]
[ For Coming In First ]

[ Do You Think That Anyone Will Remember Or Record ]
[ Who Will Come In Second? ]
[ No, People Might Get Bored ]
[ When You Fail To Show Any Momentum ]

[ Slow Is As Slow Does ]
[ Things Won’t Move ]
[ Just Because ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(304)▪︎[ Life … 2026 ]

[ Is Life Just A Matter Of Feet ]
[ & Inches ]
[ Don’t Sit On Your Seat ]  
[ If The Woman Sitting Across From You Flinches ]

[ Then You Try To Remember What Punches Are You Rollin With? ]
[ Do All Of Those Punches Leave You Feeling Kind Of Stiff? ]

[ You Really Hate This Situation ]
[ It Only Causes More Aggravation ]

[ Does It Matter When You Elevate Something ]
[ If You Come Away With Nothing? ]

[ When The Brain Starts Rumbling ]
[ Does That Make The Self-Confidence Start Crumbling? ]

[ What Is Up With That? ]
[ This Should Be Old Hat ]

[ It’s Not Like This Doesn’t Happen All The Time ]
[ If You Only Had A Dime ]
[ For Everyday That You Had A Mountain To Climb ]

[ You Could Live A Comfortable Life ]
[ Now You See If You Had Money ]
[ You Would Also Have A Happy Wife! ]

[ But Now You See ]
[ That Is Not To Be ]
[ Because That Ex-Wife Is Being Greedy! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(308)▪︎[ P.T.S.D. Never Sets You Free … 2026 ]

[ Some Say That When You Have A Good Memory, You Should Enjoy What You’ve Got ]
[ Not ]
[ When P.T.S.D. Puts You On The Spot ]

[ One Different Thing About P.T.S.D. Is How It Makes You Feel ]
[ Because The Flashback’s Seem So Real ]

[ It Can Make You Ill ]
[ Like Unintentionally Rolling Down A Hill ]

[ It Is Not A Sneeze Or A Cough ]
[ That Makes You Feel So Off ]

[ All Of A Sudden Your Sub-Conscience ]
[ Is Playing With Your Brain While You Are Conscious ]

[ In The Day When You Have A Flashback It Feels Like A Really Bad Dream ]
[ The Only Thing That Wakes You Is The Sounds Of Your Own Scream ]

[ These Are Alot Worse Than Your Typical Nightmare ]
[ Nobody Else Cares ]
[ You Are The One Person Who Knows The “Who, What & Where?” ]

[ P.T.S.D. Is Not An Honor Club That You Want To Join ]
[ There Is Not A Single Moment During A Flashback That You Enjoy ]

[ P.T.S.D. Is Not Only From Being Involved In A Military War ]
[ It Can Happen To Anyone, From Shore To Shore ]
[ All It Takes Is Some Kind Involvement In An Incident That Rocked You To Your Core ]

[ Most People Have Never Understood ]
[ In A Small Kind Of Way, That Is Good ]

[ The Ones With P.T.S.D. Can Often Become ]
[ Numb ]
[ To It ]
[ That Doesn’t Make Them Dumb ]
[ About The Least Little Bit ]

[ A Flashback Can Hit You Out Of Nowhere ]
[ & Carry You Back To Somewhere ]
[ To A Place You Wished That You Were Never There ]

[ You Go Back To The Sights, Sounds & Sometimes Smell ]
[ You Know This Is Happening ]
[ When You Start To Not Feel Very Well ]

[ Then Your Mind Goes Off To The Races ]
[ All Of A Sudden You Remember How Many Paces ]
[ You Took ]
[ & All The Faces ]
[ Are As Clear As If You Were Picking Them Out Of A Yearbook ]
[ You Remember All The Shapes & Spaces ]
[ Because That Is Where Your Memory Is Forcing You To Look ]

[ You Are Unable To Look Away ]
[ Because P.T.S.D. Is All In The Mind ]
[ In The Weirdest Way ]
[ Your Memory Will Be Stuck On Rewind ]

[ Then Cognitive Dissonance Is What You Get ]
[ Because Since You Were Young ]
[ You Were Told To Not Forget ]
[ Whenever You Forgot It Really Stung ]

[ Everytime The Flashbacks Make You Cry ]
[ Forgetting Is What You Try ]
[ To Do ]
[ @ This Point & Time You Could Not Even Afford To Buy ]
[ A Clue ]

[ Sometimes P.T.S.D. Can Make You Suicidal ]
[ Or Even Homicidal ]
[ There Is Nothing About P.T.S.D. That’s Comical ]
[ Or Sets You Up To Become Somebody’s Idol ]

[ Some People Really Fall ]
[ & Fail ]
[ They Either Turn To Pills Or Alcohol ]
[ Then Do Something Stupid & Wind Up In Jail ]

[ Then You Feel Like You Are Holding The Dreaded Ace Of Spades ]
[ Because When Your Brain Is In The Clouds ]
[ & You Get Overcome With This Haze ]
[ All You Wish For Is That These Memories Will Fade ]
[ But You Have Come To Know That P.T.S.D. Is Not Just A Faze ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(310)▪︎[ No More … 2026 ]

[ You Try To Live A Good Life Writing Poetic Stories On Your Phone ]
[ You Don’t Want To Live The Rest Of Your Years All Alone ]
[ You Are Careful To Watch Your Tone ]
[ But In The End, The Life You Might Be Saving ]
[ Will Be Your Own ]

[ The Main Thing Is, You Are The Priority, First ]
[ You Need To Take That Drink ]
[ To Quench Your Over Powering Thirst ]

[ This Is Neither Being Self-Centered Or Narcissistic ]
[ In A Time Where Most People Are Being Pessimistic ]
[ You Are Trying To Remain Optimistic ]

[ You Need To Be The One ]
[ To Get Things Done ]
[ Because You Do Not Take Off & Run ]
[ When Things Stopped Being Fun ]

[ Fun Will Only Last For A Second Or (2) ]
[ Nobody Needs To Drop A Clue ]
[ To Say That The Sky Isn’t Always Blue ]

[ You Used To Have Lots Of Dreams ]
[ Based On A Variety Of Things ]
[ But When You Would Wake-Up To Your Own Screams ]
[ It Really Stings ]

[ You Have Found That It Is Always Best To Talk Straight-Up & From The Heart ]
[ But Sometimes When You Do That ]
[ There Are Some People Who Want To Rip You Apart ]

[ & Leave Your Heart In Little Pieces ]
[ You Have Even Gotten That Kind Of Attitude, From One Of Your Niece’s ]

[ Through The Years You Make A Family By Who You Choose ]
[ When People Aren’t Forced To Love Each Other ]
[ You Cannot Lose ]

[ But People Will Come & Go Throughout Your Whole Life ]
[ You Never Felt Like One Of Them ]
[ Would Be Your Own Wife ]

[ Now You Kind Of Think, “Oh Well … ” ]
[ “It Will Be Nice Getting Out Of That Hell!” ]

[ Try To Remain Strong ]
[ The Hard Days, Might Feel Long ]

[ But @ The End Of The Tunnel, You See Light ]
[ Now, There Will Be No More Nights ]
[ That End In A Fight ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(310)▪︎[ Gone & Done Wrong … 7/1/2026 ]

[ Whenever You Are In A Situation Where All Hell’s Broken Loose ]
[ Is That A Choice Made For You? ]
[ Or Is That What You Choose? ]

[ In Order To Begin ]
[ That Is Not A Pleasant Situation ]
[ To Be In ]

[ Other People Making Their Own Personal Choices ]
[ By Raising Their Voices ]

[ @ Each Other ]
[ Because They Are Getting Hot Under Their Collar ]
[ All The While Running For Cover ]

[ Getting Away From & Avoiding The “F-Bombs” Being Thrown ]
[ & All The Aggression Being Shown ]

[ Now The Love Has Been Replaced By A High Level Of Hate ]
[ Now You Can Guess Where You Rate ]
[ In The Eyes Of Your Former Lifemate ]

[ Trying Not To Drown In The Sea Of Humanity ]
[ Where Life Has Become One Big Calamity ]
[ & Where The Situation Has Lost All Of Its Humility ]
[ & Now Borders On Insanity ]

[ Where Cool Tempers Once Reigned ]
[ Now A Mask Covers The Face Of The Insane ]
[ & Someone Is About To Burst A Blood Vessel In Their Brain ]
[ Because Of The High Level Of Pain ]

[ Does Anyone Know Where The Calm Went? ]
[ This Has Become Much More Than (2) People Trying To Vent ]
[ Especially With All Of The Energy That Was Spent ]
[ Having To Come Up With Bail Money That Was Supposed To Go Towards Rent ]

[ Will The Peace & Calm Ever Return? ]
[ Will The Stomach Acid Continue To Churn? ]
[ Will The Heartache Continue To Burn? ]

[ Now The Courtroom Seems So Formal ]
[ While You Try To Adjust To The New Normal ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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