[ How Do You Stop Life From Getting The Best Of You? ]
[ Do You Just Lie Down? ]
[ & Let Life Do What It Has Got To Do? ]
[ It Would Be Easier Than Putting Up A Fight ]
[ With Something That Is Not In Your Sight ]
[ & So It Seems, Night After Night ]
[ Every Single Time That You Get Knocked Down ]
[ You Have To Rise ]
[ When You Stand Up On The High Ground ]
[ Don’t Look @ All Surprised ]
[ Because Life Throws You So Many Punches ]
[ A Queasy Feeling ]
[ Has Ruined Many Lunches ]
[ Through The Days, Weeks & Years ]
[ Life Causes The Shedding Of Many Tears ]
[ During Your Life You Constantly Try To Face Your Worst
Fears ]
[ But The Best Part Is That Your Eyes Are Open Wide ]
[ You Can Hold Your Head High ]
[ Knowing That You Never Did Run & Hide ]
[ So How Do You Survive? ]
[ How Do You Grow & Thrive? ]
[ How Do You Show Your Friends & Loved Ones That You
Still Have Alot Of Drive?
[ Fight The Good Fight Is What You Need To Do Now ]
[ But Don’t Be Impatient ]
[ To Try To Figure Out How ]
[ It Might Be Some Time Before The Answers Come By ]
[ Beware Of People That Always Tell Lies ]
[ Don’t Be Too Quick To Demand The Answer To The Question
( WHY? ) ]
[ Find The Ones That Really Care ]
[ Find The Ones That Has Always Been There ]
[ Then You Realize That Those Are The Ones With Which
You Can Share ]
[ Your New Life, With The Ones That You Love ]
[ Show Everyone How You Fly Free Like A White Dove ]
[ Rise Above The Turmoil ]
[ & Reward Those Who Have Stayed Loyal ]
[ Keep Moving Along ]
[ Show Those Who Thought That You Were Never Strong ]
[ The Best Part Of This Part ]
[ Is That You Prove Them All Wrong ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ Poetic Stories ]
(333)▪︎[ What Pain? … 4•22•2021 ]
[ There Is So Much Pain Busting @ The Seams In Your Heart ]
[ When Another Dart Is Thrown ]
[ It Continues To Tear You Apart ]
[ It May Be A Word ]
[ That You Heard ]
[ Or An Action That Was Done ]
[ But You Found Out A Long Time Ago ]
[ That Hurtful Words Are Things That You Cannot Out Run ]
[ They Find You By Seeking You Out ]
[ It Could Be A Whisper ]
[ Or It Could Be A Shout ]
[ The Whispered Hurtful Words Do Not Draw A Crowd ]
[ But, What Always Does ]
[ Are The Ones That Are Said Out Loud ]
[ Those Are The Ones That Always Draws Others Attention ]
[ & Because It Does ]
[ There Are Higher Levels Of Contention ]
[ Sometimes Hurtful Words Are Said Because Someone
Lied ]
[ When Hurtful Words Are Said ]
[ You Want To Run & Hide ]
[ Not In A Playful Way Of Another Game Of Hide -n- Seek ]
[ These Words Can Create Such Big Problems ]
[ It Could Cause Two People To Not Want To Speak ]
[ To Each Other ]
[ Like To Your Father ]
[ Like With Your Mother ]
[ That Has Happend So Many Times In Your Past ]
[ Their Grudges Were Created To Last ]
[ You Were Written Off By Both Your Dad & Mom ]
[ @ One Time You Were Dealing With Don ]
[ Then You Had To Deal With Barbara’s Bomb ]
[ Through The Whole Accusatory Conversation You Had
With Barbara You Remained Respectful ]
[ You Did Not Need To Be ]
[ You Did Not Have To Be ]
[ So You Were Careful ]
[ Because You Were Expected To Be ]
[ Because You Were Raised To Be ]
[ You Had So Many Occasions Where You Could Have Laughed
It Off ]
[ & You Had Just As Many Times Where You Could Have Said
( FUCK YOU BARBARA ) In A Fake Cough ]
[ One Problem Is That You Don’t Go Against How You Were
Raised ]
[ This Was The Under The Same Roof Where You Craved ]
[ To Be Praised ]
[ But It Never Came ]
[ That Is Why Mom & Dad Were Never Looked @ The Same ]
[ That Is Why ( MOM ) & ( DAD ) Were No Longer Their
Names ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(355)▪︎[ Who Was That? … 4•28•2021 ]
[ One Day The Lonely Man Came Back To Show
His Deepest Scars ]
[ When He Pulled Up His Undershirt T-Top ]
[ They Looked As Big As Small Cars ]
[ Why Would The Lonely Man Lift Up His Shirt? ]
[ & Show His Hurt? ]
[ It Was NOT For The Itty Bitty ]
[ Pity ]
[ That He Could Get From A Stranger In The City ]
[ It Was So Others Could Learn ]
[ That It Doesn’t Take Spicy Food ]
[ To Cause Someone’s Heart To Burn ]
[ Wounds Are Not Always Made In The Physical Sense ]
[ Just Like Someone’s Dirty Look Can Make You Tense ]
[ A Stab Is Not Always Physical ]
[ Jokes Are Not Always Comical ]
[ If You Are Not Always Mindful ]
[ Jokes Can Quickly Turn Hurtful ]
[ You Can Not Joke About Gender, Race Or Being
Black Or White ]
[ You Can’t Joke About Age Or Weight ]
[ But People Still Joke About Some One’s Height ]
[ Asks The Lonely Man ]
[ You Don’t Try To Go There, There Or There ]
[ But Others Have A Sense Of Entitlement & Think That
They Can ]
[ Sometimes He Takes The Elder Woman’s Cart ]
[ Back Into Walmart ]
[ Not Because He Was Being Asked ]
[ By The Older Lady With The Smile On Her Mask ]
[ He Never Stands Out In The Crowd ]
[ That Is Not What The Lonely Man Is About ]
[ How Will His Wounds Heal? ]
[ How Do His Wounds Feel? ]
[ Everyone One Has Wounds Of Some Sort ]
[ Some People Have Been Successful In Building Their
Own Imaginary Emotional Fort ]
[ ( THAT IS QUITE THE WALL THAT YOU’ve BUILT ) ]
[ Is It As High As Your Mountain Of Guilt? ]
[ How About The Many Pages Of Regrets? ]
[ The Lonely Man Has More, He Bets ]
[ Looking Within @ Your Own Feelings Stings ]
[ Self-Doubt & Insecurity Are The Kings ]
[ Nothing Around The Lonely Man Makes Him Feel
That Bad ]
[ Or That Sad ]
[ Oh Here Is One ( HELLO, DAD! ) ]
[ Sometimes The Lonely Man Could Be Standing On
The Corner Waiting For The Bus ]
[ Sometimes There Is A Little Bit Of The Lonely Man
In Each One Of Us ]
[ ( a very quiet mike drops ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(333)▪︎[ So Much Pain … 4•22•2021 ]
[ There Is So Much Pain Busting @ The Seams In Your Heart ]
[ When Another Dart Is Thrown ]
[ It Continues To Tear You Apart ]
[ It May Be A Word ]
[ That You Heard ]
[ Or An Action That Was Done ]
[ But You Found Out A Long Time Ago ]
[ That Hurtful Words Are Things That You Cannot Out Run ]
[ They Find You By Seeking You Out ]
[ It Could Be A Whisper ]
[ Or It Could Be A Shout ]
[ The Whispered Hurtful Words Do Not Draw A Crowd ]
[ But, What Always Does ]
[ Are The Ones That Are Said Out Loud ]
[ Those Are The Ones That Always Draws Others Attention ]
[ & Because It Does ]
[ There Are Higher Levels Of Contention ]
[ Sometimes Hurtful Words Are Said Because Someone
Lied ]
[ When Hurtful Words Are Said ]
[ You Want To Run & Hide ]
[ Not In A Playful Way Of Another Game Of Hide -n- Seek ]
[ These Words Can Create Such Big Problems ]
[ It Could Cause Two People To Not Want To Speak ]
[ To Each Other ]
[ Like To Your Father ]
[ Like With Your Mother ]
[ That Has Happend So Many Times In Your Past ]
[ Their Grudges Were Created To Last ]
[ You Were Written Off By Both Your Dad & Mom ]
[ @ One Time You Were Dealing With Don ]
[ Then You Had To Deal With Barbara’s Bomb ]
[ Through The Whole Accusatory Conversation You Had
With Barbara You Remained Respectful ]
[ You Did Not Need To Be ]
[ You Did Not Have To Be ]
[ So You Were Careful ]
[ Because You Were Expected To Be ]
[ Because You Were Raised To Be ]
[ You Had So Many Occasions Where You Could Have Laughed
It Off ]
[ & You Had Just As Many Times Where You Could Have Said
( FUCK YOU BARBARA ) In A Fake Cough ]
[ One Problem Is That You Don’t Go Against How You Were
Raised ]
[ This Was The Under The Same Roof Where You Craved ]
[ To Be Praised ]
[ But It Never Came ]
[ That Is Why Mom & Dad Were Never Looked @ The Same ]
[ That Is Why ( MOM ) & ( DAD ) Were No Longer Their
Names ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(350)▪︎[ Can You Hear What I See? … 4•26•2021 ]
[ Can You See What I Hear? ]
[ Can You See The Words That I Just Spoke? ]
[ Can You See Faraway Or Only Near? ]
[ How Long Has Your Vision Been Broke? ]
[ Do You Ever Allow Your Mind To Just Wonder? ]
[ Do You Only See The Sunset? ]
[ Can You Also See What’s Under? ]
[ Those Fading Beams Of Light? ]
[ When You Look To Your Left ]
[ Then You Quickly Look To The Right ]
[ Has The Moon Made The Fading Day? ]
[ Bring In The Night? ]
[ Everything Goes To Bed, Except The Occassional
Night Owl ]
[ Or When A Dog Comes Out To Howl ]
[ The Big Question Is, ( WHAT IS BEYOND THE
SUNSET? ) ]
[ Have You Tried To Discover That Yet? ]
[ Maybe, Just Maybe ]
[ There Might Be Someone That You Have Never Met ]
[ Where Is Your Sense Of Adventure? ]
[ To Walk In A Direction That You Are Not Always
Sure? ]
[ Are You Afraid Of The Possible Wrath ]
[ Of Those You Know ]
[ If You Veered Off Of Your Familiar Path? ]
[ Will You Listen & Learn? ]
[ If It Is A Safety Concern? ]
[ Maybe It Could Be ]
[ Jealousy ]
[ Because You’ll Get To See ]
[ What They Have Always Wanted You To See For Free ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(22)▪︎[ My Steelers … 1•7•2021 ]
[ The Steelers Teams Of The ’70’s Were Unstoppable ]
[ When Other Teams Played Them ]
[ A Win For Them Was Not Very Probable ]
[ The Receivers Were Not Touchable When They
Went For A Catch ]
[ The Opponents Defense Was Never A Match ]
[ The Famous Steel Curtain Would Get Their Opponents
Offense All Out Of Joint ]
[ Because Of That They Rarely Gave Up Any Points ]
[ They Had The Best, Friendliest & Generous Owner
In The Whole NFL ]
[ He Treated The Losing Teams From The ’80’s Just
As Well ]
[ In 1969 They Brought In A Coach Named Chuck Knoll ]
[ To Move Them Out Of The Losing Hole ]
[ & Put Them On The Best Ever Winning Super Bowl ]
[ Roll ]
[ Six Super Bowl Championships Are Never Enough ]
[ Even Though For Decades Things Got Rough ]
[ They Needed To Load The Team Up ]
[ With A Group Of Players That Were Just As Tough ]
[ Along The Way, February 11th, 2001, They Demolished A
Stadium But Not Their Future ]
[ The Defense Still Had That Same Nasty Nature ]
[ Money Was Well Spent ]
[ So A Steelers Game Was Still Quite The Spectacular
Event ]
[ The Quarterback Position Rose To Prominence Starting
With Bradshaw ]
[ Went Through O’Donnell, Brister, Stewart & Maddux ]
[ But They Had Yet To See The Best They Ever Saw ]
[ Then ]
[ When ]
[ In 2004, The Steelers Drafted A Young Quarterback
Number One ]
[ Who Went By The Nickname ( BIG BEN ) ]
[ When They Announced ]
[ Him ]
[ He Had A Name That Was Hard To Spell ]
[ & Even Harder To Pronounce ]
[ They Began To Put Their Trust ]
[ In Big Ben ]
[ & A Running Back That Was Nicknamed ( THE BUS ) ]
[ The Winning Remains The Same ]
[ The Pro Bowl Players ]
[ & All Of The Hall Of Fame ]
[ Names ]
[ Just Like They Were The First Team To Win Six Super
Rings ]
[ In The Hall Of Fame Building ]
[ They Have Their Own Wing ]
[ I Also Have Good Feelings ]
[ Whenever I Talk About My Steelers ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(348)▪︎[ Does Not Mean Agreement … 4•26•2021 ]
[ Validation May Equal Acknowledgement ]
[ But That Does Not Mean An Automatic Agreement ]
[ I Acknowledge What You Say ]
[ But I May Not Agree With You On This Day ]
[ Like I Did On Other Days ]
[ @ No Time Is This About Us ]
[ Maybe This Is Something That We Need To Discuss ]
[ Because ]
[ It Is Not Always A ( ME VERSUS YOU ) ]
[ Thing ]
[ Maybe This Is How I See Things Through The Point
Of View ]
[ That I Bring ]
[ Not By Being Delirious ]
[ But Through My Experience ]
[ I Don’t Always Know What You Are Seeking ]
[ Seeing Or Speaking ]
[ Is It Like The Turning On A Light? ]
[ When We’re Trying To Figure Out What Is Right? ]
[ Without Everything & Anything ]
[ Leading Up To A Fight? ]
[ Afterall We’re Just Trying To Keep Things Moving On ]
[ So All Of The Misconceptions Will Be Gone ]
[ Let’s Continue To Stay Strong ]
[ & Get Away From The Thoughts That Feel Wrong ]
[ Not Everything Is Black Or White ]
[ But Sometimes Our Past ]
[ Blinds Our Sight ]
[ I Am Not Here To Lead Or Follow ]
[ I Never Want My Words To Come Across Hollow ]
[ I Mean What I Say ]
[ In The Most Sincere Way ]
[ Then ]
[ When ]
[ We Walk Side By Side ]
[ I Never Want You To Look Back ]
[ & Say That I Lied ]
[ That Is Not How I Want My Words To Come Through ]
[ To You ]
[ Because … ]
[ That Is The Last Thing I Want To Do ]
[ When Push Comes To Shove ]
[ We Always Need To Rise Above ]
[ The Hurt ]
[ & Show Each Other Who We Love ]
[ & That Is Each Other ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(328)▪︎[ Way Too Peopely … 4•21•2021 ]
[ Sometimes It Looks Like It Is Too Peoplely Outside ]
[ If I Smiled & Said ( THAT’s OKAY ) ]
[ I Lied ]
[ How Many Is Too Many? ]
[ Does There Even Have To Be Any? ]
[ One Mouthy Person Can Be One Too Much ]
[ It Does Not Even Matter If Their Mouth Is Yapping
About Such & Such ]
[ One Person Can Be As Loud ]
[ As A Small Crowd ]
[ There Is A Big Diference Between Being Heard &
Being Seen ]
[ Somebody Could Look @ You Wrong ]
[ & Then Someone Can Say Something Awfully Mean ]
[ It Does Not Take Someone Putting Their Hands On You
To Make You Feel Beat Up ]
[ It Doesn’t Take A Swipe Of A Knife To Give You A Cut ]
[ Words Cut Much Deeper Than Any Old Knife ]
[ Sometimes The Deepest Wounds Are Made By The Husband
Or The Wife ]
[ Those Are The Moments When You Need To Take ]
[ A Long Long Break ]
[ Walk Down To The Bakery ]
[ & Have A Big Piece Of New York Cheesecake ]
[ Recover ]
[ Before You Go Back To Your Lover ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(30)▪︎[ No Ability … 1•9•2021 ]
[ I Have No Stability ]
[ I Feel That I Don’t Have The Ability ]
[ To Get Or Be Stable ]
[ Just Flat Out Unable ]
[ I Absolutely Have No Say ]
[ On The Way ]
[ Things Go During The Day ]
[ I Have To Vent ]
[ About Being Bent ]
[ Because Of How Things Went ]
[ In One Ear ]
[ & Out The Other ]
[ About Who Is Supposed To Be Here ]
[ From This Point On ]
[ My Security Blanket Is Gone ]
[ How Do I Get Things Back Under My Control? ]
[ Because This Is Putting A Hole ]
[ In The Middle Of My Soul ]
[ My Shining Light ]
[ Is Always My Wife ]
[ But She Is Gone Most Of The Day ]
[ & Won’t Be Home Until Late Into The Night ]
[ Strangers Are Coming Into My Home Once Again ]
[ Will They Be Coming In ]
[ To Commit A Sin? ]
[ Or Two Or Four ]
[ Stealing My Property ]
[ As They Walk Out The Front Door? ]
[ Maybe I Should Hole Up In My Room & Close The Door ]
[ Because Sometimes I Can’t Take It Anymore ]
[ So I Just Spend My Time Alone ]
[ & Write Story After Story On My Phone ]
[ Oh Wait, What Is That Noise? ]
[ Oh, Okay, It Was Just The Dial Tone ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(021)▪︎[ Your Bubble … 1•7•2021 ]
[ If Someone Says That Your Bubble Is Getting
Bigger Than You Think ]
[ Would You Prefer That It Would Shrink? ]
[ I Think For Instance ]
[ You Would Rather That Others Keep Their 6 Feet Of Distance? ]
[ You Definitely Don’t Want Someone That Is Coughing
To Come Near ]
[ The Causes For Those Coughs Are Never Clear ]
[ It Could Be Some Allergies ]
[ Or The ‘VID ]
[ You Never Know If The Sneezes ]
[ We’re Caused By Where He Has Been Or What He Did ]
[ When He Felt Feerless? ]
[ Did He Get Careless? ]
[ He May Have Felt Safe Around People He Did Not Know ]
[ But Sometimes The Symptoms Are Really Slow ]
[ To Show ]
[ Then Will It Be Too Late ]
[ After He Brings The ‘VID Home To His Kids & Mate ]
[ The 6 Feet Distance Bubble Sounds Like A Good
Idea Still ]
[ Will It Stay In Effect? ]
[ Oh, You Hope It Will ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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