(331)▪︎[ There Are Lies Behind Those Eyes … 2025 ]

[ Sometimes You Feel Like Your Whole Life Has Been Filled With A Whole Bunch Of Liars ]
[ Going Around Starting Fires ]
[ Handing Out Love ]
[ That Is Held Up By Wires ]

[ Everything That Has Been Shown ]
[ Or Briefly Told ]
[ In The Most Obnoxious Tone ]
[ Ever Has The Longevity Of Growing Old ]
[ Or Has Been Set In Stone ]

[ There Is No Warmth (6ft) Down ]
[ Under The Ground ]
[ Nobody Has The Chance To Drown ]
[ When There Is Not A Single Drop Of Water To Be Found ]

[ No One Blinks Because They All Have Hollowed Out Eyes ]
[ Nobody Seems Wise ]
[ When You Look @ Their Disguise ]

[ Who Are They Running From? ]
[ Everybody’s Resons For Doing Things Sounds Kind Of Dumb ]
[ When Others Reach Out ]
[ Their Brain Goes Numb ]
[ Then Everyone Walks Away Filled With Doubt ]

[ When People Reach Out, It Is Because They Are In Pain ]
[ What Do They Have To Gain? ]
[ When They Find That The Effort Was All For Naught ]
[ Because They Became An Open Book All In Vain ]

[ Reciprocity Was Supposed To Be Built Around Trust ]
[ Like A Brand New Bicycle That Sits Out In The Rain ]
[ The Chrome Turns To Rust ]
[ They Can Dream That They Could Polish It Again & Again ]
[ But The End Result Is A Bust ]

[ Effort Does Not Always Equal Success ]
[ Every Day You Take A Full Bucket & Dry Mop ]
[ & Try To Clean Up The Mess ]
[ Only To Watch Your Jaw Drop ]
[ Because The Amount Of Effort You Give, Causes You Extreme Stress ]

[ Effort Given ]
[ & A Great Result Is Not Always In The Same Sentence ]
[ Quite Often ]
[ It Just Keeps People Who Have Doubt From Ever Riding The Fence ]
[ Just When ]
[ Others Show That They Do Not Have The Confidence ]
[ Then ]
[ There Is No Difference ]
[ Because There Is Nothing To Reference ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha

Na
Lopaka DeVoe

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(326)▪︎[ To My Nicole … 2025 ]

[ Goodnight ]
[ To The One That You Absolutely Hate To Fight ]
[ But Who Is Your Light ]
[ That Shines Like A Beacon ]
[ Nice & Bright ]
[ For You When You Feel Like A Frightened Little Boy ]
[ In The Middle Of The Night ]
[ Searching For Jesse, Not A Toy ]

[ She Is The Drops Of Rain That Make The Flowers Grow ]
[ She Is The Warm Sun ]
[ That Comes Out & Chases Away The Black Clouds That Sink So Low ]
[ Letting Us Come Out Of Our Houses To Play & Have Fun ]
[ Even Though ]
[ Your Run ]
[ Has Become Really Slow ]

[ She Is The Moon That Rises High Up Above ]
[ So The World Is Not Dark ]
[ She Is The One That Has Been The First Woman To Show You True Love ]
[ & The Only One That Left Her Mark ]

[ On A Truly Broken Heart ]
[ That Through The Years ]
[ Was Torn Apart ]
[ By Many Days That Caused You To Shed Tears ]

[ Because Of Many Broken Family Ties ]
[ The Word “Family” ]
[ Has Been As Bad For Your Health As The Oil That Cooks McDonald’s Fries ]
[ From What You Could See ]
[ Families Are Full Of A Bunch Of Lies ]

[ Family Feels So Much Better When You Get To Choose ]
[ Whoever You Want To Be In Your Inner Circle ]
[ You Can Never Lose ]
[ When Your People Love To Play The Game Called “Quirkle” ]

[ She Taught You How To Spot The People That Are Fake ]
[ The Ones That Never Give ]
[ & Only Take ]
[ She Has Been A Good Sport ]
[ As You Have Tried To Teach Yourself How To Bake ]
[ Without Having To Drink Down The “Pepto Bismol” By The Quart ]

[ She Is Quite The Lady ]
[ & A Great Cook ]
[ She Never Approaches The Word Shady ]
[ Later On In Your Life, Maybe She Will Help You Gather All Your Stories So You Can Make Yourself A Book ]

[ Even Though She Is Extremely Busy She Does Slow Down To Be Your Biggest Fan ]
[ When You Are Writing She Never Pushes You For Perfection ]
[ But She Does Want You To Do The Best That You Can ]
[ Then She Will Always Come Behind You To Make Any Grammatical Corrections ]
[ Only Since She Has Been By Your Side, Have You Felt Like A Complete Man ]

[ The Relationship You Were In Prior To Meeting Her, Gave You Quite The Emotional Beating ]
[ That Woman Left You In Such Financial & Emotional Distress ]
[ Ever Since Your First Greeting ]
[ Little Miss Satan In A Dress ]
[ Was Always Cheating ]
[ Causing Quite The Mess ]
[ Because The Problem Kept Repeating ]
[ But She Never Learned When Or How To Confess ]

[ Then You Took Your Chances On Waiting ]
[ Before Jumping Back Into That Unpredictable Social Game ]
[ Called Dating ]
[ But Then Nothing Was Ever The Same ]
[ After You Started Saying ]
[ Nicole Marie’s Beautiful Name ]

[ You Never Knew That Your Hardened Heart Could Melt ]
[ After Literally Figuring Out What The Word “Love” Really Meant ]
[ & Becoming Comfortable How True Love Really Felt ]
[ Since All Of Your Past Relationships Put Together Never Made A Dent ]

[ When You Finally Found The Right Woman That You Thought Would ]
[ Become Your Wife ]
[ You Decided That You Should ]
[ Cutout All Of The Meaningless Strife ]
[ & Then You Finally Could ]
[ Put Everything Else Behind You & Settle Down Into A Wonderful New Life ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha

Na
Lopaka DeVoe

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(322)▪︎[ Non-Traditional … 2025 ]

What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?

[ This Question Kind Of Hit Me Between The Eyes & Caused Me To Be A Little Sad ]
[ For The Life Of Me ]
[ I Cannot Remember A Single Tradition That Was Handed Down To From My Mom & Dad ]

[ They Never Stressed Different Ways ]
[ To Celebrate The Holidays ]

[ Don Never Taught Me Anything Fun ]
[ He Never Started ]
[ So He Was Never Done ]
[ When It Was His Time To Be One Of The Dearly Departed ]
[ I Found Out That He Never Even Wanted To Adopt A Son ]

[ I Guess If I Ever Needed To Put Him In A Class ]
[ I Would Take A Pass ]
[ The Only Label I Would Give Him ]
[ Is That He Is Being Remembered As Being An Ass! ]

[ Now That He Has Passed ]
[ Much Of What He Said To Me Was Not Positive ]
[ So The Point Did Not Last ]

[ In What Little Time That I Spent With Him Years Before He Died ]
[ I Never Lied ]
[ When I Have Told Others That There Were Only (2) Pleasant Years Living By His Side ]
[ Because From What I Have Remembered ]
[ He Was More Or Less A Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde ]

[ Neither Don Nor Barbara Ever Took The Time ]
[ To Even Show Me The Difference ]
[ Between A Lemon Or A Lime ]
[ If Someone Ever Wanted To Use That Example As A Reference ]
[ Send Me A Dime ]

[ The Main Problem ]
[ From What You Can See ]
[ Traditions Did Not Mean A Damn Thing To Either Of Them ]
[ Whatever Those Might Be ]

[ Don Did Teach Me How To Drive ]
[ So I Guess One Tradition That He Did Hand Down ]
[ Was To Stay On The Right Hand Side Of The Road If I Wanted To Stay Alive ]

[ I Must Confess ]
[ That Sounds Kind Of Meaningless ]

[ But Hey, It Was Something ]
[ Because As I Look Back Over Everything ]
[ Don & Barbara Never Taught Me Anything ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha

Na
Lopaka DeVoe

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(670)▪︎[ The Perfect Dog For Me … 2021 ]

[ What Are Some Reasons Why I Call This Dog, My Own? ]
[ When I Am With Her ]
[ She Is Like A Sunny Day, With A Big Vanilla Ice Cream Cone ]

[ She, Is As Fun, As Fun Can Be ]
[ I Love Watching Her Energy ]

[ She Takes Away The Bad @ Night ]
[ She Does Not Give Up Without A Fight ]

[ She Is As Stubborn As An Old Bull ]
[ @ Night There Is Not Even A Slight Lull ]

[ Then There Is Her Night-Time Behavior As Of Late ]
[ She Becomes An Immovable Object When She Gets In That State ]

[ She Is Frustrating As All Get Out ]
[ She Irritates My Wife So Bad ]
[ She Loses Her Cool & Shouts ]

[ It Does Not Matter If I Am The One ]
[ She Thinks We Are Going Into The Backyard To Have Some Fun ]

[ As Soon As We Open The Sliding Glass Door ]
[ She Wants To Play, Some More ]

[ She Is Over (10) Years Old & She Still Has A Little Bit Of Puppy Playfulness In Her ]
[ That I Am Sure ]

[ She Is The Most Loyal Dog ]
[ & This Will Be Another Story About Her To Go Onto My Blog ]

[ She Is The Watchful Eye, Over Me ]
[ She Puts Herself In Angles So She Can Always See ]

[ Me & What I Am Doing ]
[ & That Is Kind Of Soothing ]

[ She Keys Into My Emotions ]
[ She Shows So Much Devotion ]

[ She Sees If My Feelings ]
[ Are Reeling ]
[ & She Reacts To Me If My Patience Starts Peeling ]

[ She Goes By Feelings & Scent ]
[ She Does Not Wait Until My Patience Has Been Spent ]
[ No, My Dog Freckles Was Definitely Heaven Sent ]

[ I Love My Dog, Freckles ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha

Na
Lopaka DeVoe

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(312)▪︎[ Life Is A Roller Coaster … 2025 ]

[ Do You Ever Look In The Mirror ]
[ Wipe Away The Dust ]
[ So Your Reflection Is Clear? ]
[ Honesty Is A Must ]

[ Do You Wonder, “Who Could That Be?” ]
[ “I Am Not So Sure About Who I See?” ]

[ If You Do Not Recognize Yourself, There Could Be A Problem ]
[ But You Have An Issue ]
[ With Your Thinking Of “Us -vs- Them!” ]
[ You Grab A Tissue ]
[ As Your Mind Goes, “Hmm” ]

[ Why Can’t You Recognize Your Own Shadow? ]
[ The Person You Saw ]
[ You Really Didn’t Know! ]
[ But When You Feel “Blah” ]
[ Your Mind Starts To Go Slow ]

[ Like You Are Trudging Through Thick Butter ]
[ When Your Eyelashes Start The Flutter ]

[ They Are Moving Faster Than A Hummingbird’s Wings ]
[ & Your Mind Starts Thinking About All Kinds Of Things ]
[ Your Thoughts Are Like A Pinball Going Off The Bells That Sound The Dings ]

[ Well Through The Years, You’ve Seen Fire ]
[ & You’ve Seen Rain ]
[ If You Do Not Remember Your Mistakes From The Years Prior ]
[ You Will Probably Make Them Again ]

[ You Can Make Mistakes All Day Long ]
[ If You Show That Your Resolve Is Not Strong ]
[ How Will You Get Any Personal Growth ]
[ Whenever You Are Proven Wrong? ]

[ No One Says That You Do Not Always Have To Be Right ]
[ Just Like The Sun Does Not Always Need To Be Bright ]
[ But When Things Are Going Well ]
[ That Can Be An Incredible Sight ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha

Na
Lopaka DeVoe

(443)▪︎[ Change The Picture … 5/26/2021 ]

[ When There Has Been A Tragic Incident ]
[ Change The Picture ]
[ By Thinking Everything Was An Accident ]

[ With No Malice Involved ]
[ Even Though The Problem Has Not Been Solved ]

[ Look Left, Then Right ]
[ Always Walk Towards The Black Light ]

[ Sometimes Black Lights Distort ]
[ They Are Never Used While Watching Sports ]

[ How Does One Change The Perception? ]
[ There Have Been Tragedies Since Man’s Conception ]

[ Fade To Black ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(549)▪︎[ Another Day … 2024 ]

[ She Came Into Your Life Like A Flash ]
[ Her Love Could Not Be Bought With Cash ]
[ Now Your Heart Is Just A Pile Of Ash ]

[ That Pile Is All You Have Remaining Of The Time You (2) Were Together ]
[ Her Moods Changed As Fast As The Oregon Weather ]

[ Sometimes It Rained ]
[ When She Got Angry & Hostile ]
[ What Did She Gain? ]
[ For Awhile? ]
[ Then She Would Refrain ]
[ From Giving You A Smile ]

[ Those Times Did Neither One Of Us A Bit Of Good, She Would Say ]
[ If It Was @ A Job ]
[ She Wouldn’t Have Earned Any Pay ]

[ But It Wasn’t, So You Could ]
[ Even If You Couldn’t ]
[ You Would ]

[ They’d Say, “Sorry, Mike” ]
[ “This Is Not The Best Way” ]
[ “To Earn Your Pay” ]
[ It Seemed Like That Night After Night ]
[ & Day After Day ]

[ You Were Concerned About How Does One Learn To Touch? ]
[ Not Too Little ]
[ Or Not Too Much? ]

[ How Does One Find The Balance Between The (2)? ]
[ You Could Throw A Shoe ]
[ But Wouldn’t That Be The Wrong Thing To Do? ]
[ Says, “She?” ]
[ Says Who? ]

[ But It Wouldn’t Be Hard ]
[ To Use The “UNO Reverse” Card ]

[ What Would That Mean ]
[ In The Bigger Scheme ]
[ Of Things? ]

[ Would It Mean Having A Clear Path? ]
[ In The Subject Of Math? ]
[ Or Being Given A Shield ]
[ From The Next Woman’s Wrath? ]

[ Would That Wrath Be Not Needed Or Unwanted? ]
[ So You Will Be Undaunted? ]

[ In The Face Of Evil ]
[ Trying To Stay Civil ]

[ Maybe, The Best Thing Would Be To Just Walk Away ]
[ Then See If It Really Mattered ]
[ When The Next Woman Chooses To Stay ]
[ Because You Don’t Like Feeling Battered ]

Mahalo Nui Loa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

(241)▪︎[ Believe It Or Not … 2024 ]

[ There Are Times When You Look @ The Trees Surrounding Your Property & Some People Could Think That You Might Be Lying ]
[ But When The Sun Starts Setting ]
[ You Can See That Some Of The Branches Are Crying ]

[ You Have Not Seen Nor Ever Heard Of Such A Thing ]
[ What Is Next? ]
[ Finding Out That The Leaves That Are On The Ground Can Sing? ]
[ The Bushes Alongside The Driveway Have The Ability To Send You A Text? ]

[ You Have Racked Your Brain About The Number Of Blank Texts That You Have Chased ]
[ Now You Find ]
[ That The Texts Are Not From People That You Have Never Faced ]

[ You Have Heard Of Wild Stories ]
[ All Of Them Were Extremly Boring ]
[ They Would Be Extremely Sure & Fit ]
[ Into Dreams That Had You Snoring ]

[ Even Though The Answer Kind Of Makes Sense ]
[ It Still Has You Riding The Fence ]
[ On Whether Or Not The Answer Causes You To Feel Tense ]

[ Most People Who Will Hear It ]
[ Would Immediately Yell, “Bullshit!” ]

[ They Tend To Have To Hear It Themselves ]
[ Instead Of Being Told A Story ]
[ From Someone Else ]

[ Then They Would Become The Story Tellers ]
[ & Then Everyone Else Can Be ]
[ The Ones That Think That You Are One Of Those Truth Sellers ]

[ Trying To Sell You The Truth Through An Act ]
[ Not The Ones That Lay It Out As A Fact ]

[ If Someone Is Taken Aback ]
[ You Should Cut Them Some Slack ]
[ It Wasn’t Too Long Ago ]
[ Where You Only Thought In Terms Of White Or Black ]

[ You Thought That Everyone That Believed Was A Heavy Drinker ]
[ Not A Deep Thinker ]

[ It Is Funny How Things Change ]
[ Because The Story Was Rearranged ]
[ Not Pre-Arranged ]

Mahalo Nui Loa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

(292)▪︎[ Romance … 7/3/2025 ]

What’s your definition of romantic?

[ Your Definition Of Romantic ]
[ Is Kind Of Anti-Climatic ]

[ Everybody’s Definition Is Very Subjective ]
[ Because This Subject ]
[ Should Not Be Looked @ As Objective ]

[ Romance ]
[ Should Not Be Based On Facts ]
[ Everything Should Be By Chance ]
[ & How The Other Person Reacts ]

[ A Man Could Think That He Was Being Romantic By Buying Her A Rose ]
[ But His Partner Has Allergies ]
[ So It Affects Her Nose ]

[ She Won’t Like Candy On Any Day ]
[ She Thinks The Pounds Won’t Look Good On Her ]
[ Then When She Talks About Tooth Decay ]
[ She Seems So Sure ]

[ Romance Is In The Eye Of The Beholder ]
[ As The Guy Gets Older ]
[ His Resolve To Do Something Romantic Grows Colder ]
[ Instead Of Bolder ]

[ Sometimes People Will Look @ A Hopeless Romantic ]
[ & Thinks He Acts Like A Crazy Lunatic ]

[ Some Women Think Chivalry Is Dead ]
[ In The Water ]
[ Is It All In Their Head ]
[ Because They Never Saw A Sign Of It Coming From Their Father ]

[ When You Have Been Married For ½ Of Your Life ]
[ You Still Try To Do Romantic Actions For Your Wife ]

[ Try ]
[ Fail, Try Again ]
[ Don’t Tell Her A Lie ]
[ As A Way To Begin ]

[ Romance In A Marriage Is Still A Thing ]
[ Always Treat Your Wife Like A Queen ]
[ Then Watch The Kinds Of Comments That Will Bring ]

[ When You Try To Be Romantic It Is Not Meant To Shine A Light On Yourself ]
[ When You Try To Be Romantic It Is For Someone Else ]

[ Romance Can Have A Really Broad Definition ]
[ With Everything That Is Going On In This World ]
[ Being Romantic Is A Pretty Good Condition ]

[ To Have … ]

Mahalo Nui Loa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

(026)▪︎[ Too Much Of What? … 2024 ]

[ Is Too Much Of A Good Thing Too Much? ]
[ If It Is Such ]
[ Could It Be Used As A Crutch? ]

[ Would That Be Like That For Lunch? ]
[ Stuff That Goes Crunch? ]
[ Or Only For Things That You Could Get In A Bunch? ]

[ How Is This Found Out? ]
[ Must You Research It To Remove All Doubt? ]
[ But Then Somebody Could Look @ You & Ask “What The Hell Are You Talking About? ]

[ That Would Squash All Of What You Were Thinking ]
[ So There Won’t Even Be Something Linking ]
[ You To Whatever The Thoughts That Would Be Sinking ]

[ To The End Of The Line ]
[ So Nobody Could Whine ]
[ That They Were Not Even Doing So Much As Just Fine ]

[ Once Again Your Thoughts Are Up & Running ]
[ But @ Times They Feel Like They Are Fumbling ]
[ & Bumbling ]

[ How Do You See How You Can Right This Ship? ]
[ So On The Radar Screen Called Life ]
[ It Would Not Be Seen As A Tiny Blip ]
[ Then No One Can Come @ You By Shooting From The Hip ]

[ Do You Feel Alone In A Crowd? ]
[ Only If There Are Hushed Voices? ]
[ If The People Are Loud ]
[ Does It Come Across As Needless Noises? ]

[ Is There A Difference, From What You Can See? ]
[ If There Is, What Can It Be? ]

[ Can It Be Seen? ]
[ Does It Come Across Really Clean? ]
[ Or Somewhere In-Between ]

Mahalo
LopakaDeVoe