[ So Many Words Coming Together To Make So Many
Thoughts ]
[ Then Swirling Around Like A Rollercoaster Of Dots ]
[ But Dots Do Not Come Together To Make Sentences ]
[ That Touches Your Senses ]
[ Making Sense May Not Be Your Goal ]
[ Sometimes You Have To Take The Dice & Give It A Roll ]
[ The Odds Are Never In Your Favor ]
[ & Losing, Has It’s Own Special, Bitter Flavor ]
[ How Did Thoughts Turn Into Food? ]
[ Somewhere In The Last 8 Lines ]
[ Things Were Misunderstood ]
[ For Some, That Might Sound Fine ]
[ But To The Average Reader, That Does Not Look Good ]
[ Dots Can Come In So Many Shapes & Colors ]
[ You Might Like One Kind ]
[ While Your Friends Like Some Others ]
[ You Guess, To Each Their Own ]
[ Sometimes Things Are Better Left All Alone ]
[ Because Crowds ]
[ Can Sometimes Come In Extremely Loud ]
[ Some Of Them ]
[ Thinks That They Are The Budding Head Of A Rose ]
[ & You Are Just The Stem ]
[ But The Stem Of A Rose Has Thorns That Hurt ]
[ Even Under Their Shirt ]
[ Others Never Take You Serious ]
[ & That Makes You Curious ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ Poetic Stories ]
(087)▪︎[ So Alike, But So Different … 1•27•2022 ]
[ Does Everything Have To Go Up & Down In This World For
Everything To Work? ]
[ Even For The People That Have A Little Quirck? ]
[ Some Say A Little Quirckiness Is Good ]
[ They Should Tell You Before Their Actions Are Misunderstood ]
[ Everybody Has Something Quircky About Them, But It May
Not Be Obvious To The Average Joe ]
[ People Work Really Hard To Hide Whatever It Is, So It Won’t
Show ]
[ We Are All Not The Same By Any Means ]
[ You Guess We Would Look Somewhat Alike, If We Hid Behind
Enough Screens ]
[ We Don’t Look, Talk, Or Ever Feel The Same ]
[ So We Don’t All Have The Same Name ]
[ But Deep Down We Are The Same, But Some Are Not Treated
As Such ]
[ Alot Of People Are Being Treated Like They Don’t Mean Very
Much ]
[ To Who? ]
[ Well There Are Alot You’s ]
[ We All Have The Same Amount Of Bones ]
[ We Start Off With The Same Number Of Fingers & Toes ]
[ We Have (2) Eyes, Lips & Ears ]
[ & (1) Nose ]
[ Bias & Prejudice Are Behaviors That Are Learned ]
[ Not Earned ]
[ As Someone Grows & Ages ]
[ Their Personality Starts Showing ]
[ From Loving To Rages ]
[ Likes & Dislikes ]
[ Do They Like To Go On Long Walks? ]
[ Or Long, Exhausting Hikes? ]
[ Nobody Has THE Answer On How To Treat Each Other Like
Each Other ]
[ There Were Many Ways That You Were Like Your Younger
Brother ]
[ But Just Because You Are Blood, That Doesn’t Mean You Are
In Any Way Alike ]
[ Your Sister Was Like A (3) Wheeler ]
[ While You Were A Mountain Bike ]
[ Just Like There Are Many Types Of Cancers ]
[ There Must Be Alot Of Different Answers ]
[ We Are Alike, But So Different ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(085)▪︎[ Just Existing … 1•27•2022 ]
[ What Would It Feel Like Being Stuck, Penniless, Hungry, Angry &
Alone? ]
[ You Have No Idea How Long It Had Been Since You Last Got
A Text On Your Phone ]
[ You Feel Like You Are On An Island, But You Have (4) Walls ]
[ On & Off During The Day, You Feel The Tightening Of Your
Jaws ]
[ You Have Lost Track Of The Days & Weeks ]
[ You Feel A Burning Sensation, Inside Both Cheeks ]
[ You Have A Huge Knot, On The Right Side Of Your Back ]
[ You Can’t Afford An Actual Meal ]
[ Not Even A Snack ]
[ You Do Not Recall The Last Time You Ate ]
[ You Are Not Trying To ]
[ But You Can Tell That You Are Losing Weight ]
[ The Light In Your Room Flickers On & Off ]
[ You Have Had The Cold Sweats ]
[ & A Really Deep, Barking Cough ]
[ There Is No Medication That Would Agree With Your System ]
[ Nothing Prescribed By Your P.C. Doctor ]
[ Not By Any Of Them ]
[ You Cannot Remember The Last Time That You Left The House
For Pleasure ]
[ You Used To Get Coins From The Bank ]
[ As You Hunted For Treasure ]
[ You Used To Look Through So Many Pennies, Nickels & Dimes ]
[ Hours After Hours ]
[ Yes, Those Were Good Times ]
[ But After Your Spouse ]
[ Left The House ]
[ Things Have Never Been The Same ]
[ You Can Not Find Your Wife Anymore ]
[ Because She Changed Her Whole Name ]
[ Without Telling You ]
[ Without Leaving A Clue ]
[ You Have Thought Of Taking A Whole Bottle Of Store Bought
Sleeping Pills ]
[ But You Found In The Past That It Did Not Even Make You Feel
Ill ]
[ It Only Gave You Cold Sweats & Then The Chills ]
[ A Single Ambien Usually Knocks The Average Person On
Their Ass ]
[ But You Took (28) Of Them Really Fast ]
[ Using The Last Swallow Of Soda, That You Had In Your Glass ]
[ You Waited All Night To Fall Asleep ]
[ After A Couple Of Hours You Were Able To Drift Away ]
[ But You Didn’t Go Very Deep ]
[ You Startle Yourself Awake, Way To Early In The Morning ]
[ Then You Have Flashbacks Throughout The Whole Day & Night
Without A Second’s Worth Of Warning ]
[ You Feel That All You Do Is Exist ]
[ You Are Not Enjoying Your Hobbies ]
[ So You Are Not Making A Single List ]
[ You Like To Inventory Everything That You Have Collected ]
[ Now All Your Hobbies Sit Neglected ]
[ Ever Since You Were A Teen Boy ]
[ Your Life Had Found Very Little Joy ]
[ You Always Wished That As You Grew Older You Would Come
Across Some ]
[ Nothing Ever Came ]
[ Everyday Was The Same ]
[ Making You Feel Dumb ]
[ There Are Some Days & Nights ]
[ You Do Not Stand Up To Turn On The Lights ]
[ The Only Times That You Get Up, Is To Go To The Bathroom &
Back Again ]
[ You Guess Your Dad Was Right When He Told You ]
[ (YOU WILL NEVER MAKE IT, YOU WILL NEVER WIN) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(073)▪︎[ Happier Times … 1•24•2022 ]
[ Oftentimes, When One Is Searching For Solace, They Go @ It All
Alone ]
[ When They Pick Up The Phone ]
[ Listening For The Voice Of Reason ]
[ They Only Get The Dial Tone ]
[ You Can’t Wash Lonely Off Of Your Back In The Shower ]
[ You Neither Have The Patience Or The Power ]
[ It Is A Common Mistake To Look For Love In All Of The Wrong
Places ]
[ You Only Think There Is Love ]
[ In All Of The Wrong Faces ]
[ You’ve Heard (1000) Stories But None Of Them Rings True ]
[ White Is Black ]
[ & Red Is Blue ]
[ Nobody Tells The Truth Anymore ]
[ Not The Lady Leaning Against The Wall ]
[ Or ]
[ The Guy Who Just Walked Through The Door ]
[ You Had The Bright Idea That When You Had $200 In Your
Pocket You Made It Rich ]
[ & You No Longer Had To Scratch That Itch ]
[ But If You Don’t Keep Moving, That Itch Will Turn Into A Scratch
That Gets Infected ]
[ You Will Wait So Long To Get Some Medicine ]
[ It Would Need To Be Injected ]
[ Stay Stagnant & You Turn Fat & Lazy ]
[ When You Hesitate Too Long & Talk To Yourself Too Much ]
[ People Will Start Calling You Crazy ]
[ All Because You Thought You Had Made It Too Early In Life ]
[ So You Have No Kids ]
[ You Never Had The Pleasure Of Having A Wife ]
[ Because You Were Always Looking For The Next ]
[ You Always Thought That You Would Find The Best Woman
Through A Text ]
[ Not The Old Fashioned Way Of Getting Out Of The House &
Meeting Her ]
[ If You Look @ A Text You Can Never Be Sure ]
[ Friends Have Passed You By & Moved Away ]
[ You Have Not Seen A Friendly Face All Day ]
[ You Are Relegated To A Monotonous Routine ]
[ You Are Neither The King Of All You Can See ]
[ You’ve Never Been Able To Share It With A Queen ]
[ Time Passes By When A Day Turns Into A Week ]
[ & You Have Aged Past Your Peak ]
[ Sooner, Rather Than Later, You Lay In Your Bed, Waiting For
Death To Give Your Ticket A Punch ]
[ You All Of Sudden Flash Back To Happier Times When You
Were Sharing A Lunch ]
[ With … ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(071)▪︎[ The Facebook Craze … 1•24•2022 ]
[ What Is It About, This Facebook Craze? ]
[ @ Times The Whole Point, Keeps You In A Haze ]
[ Some Say That It Let’s You Re-Connect With Friends Who
Were Long Lost ]
[ But Is There A Cost? ]
[ Were They Lost For A Good Reason? ]
[ Do You Only Hear From Them, During Football Season? ]
[ Facebook Seems Like A High School Popularity Contest ]
[ You Thought It Could Be Used To Re-Connect? ]
[ You Were Popular Year After Year ]
[ But Facebook Seems To Separate It Only For The Top Tier ]
[ There Were Some People That You Were Happy To Find ]
[ You Guess Through The Past Years Some Of Them Did In Fact
Cross Your Mind ]
[ @ First You Were Accepting (FRIEND REQUESTS) From
Everyone ]
[ & Anyone ]
[ But Then The Quantity Caused You To Go Numb ]
[ & The Thought Of Getting As Many As You Could ]
[ Kind Of Sounded Pretty Dumb ]
[ Did You Have Anything In Common, Besides Your High School? ]
[ When The Numbers Kept Rising You Thought It Was Kind
Of Cool ]
[ Then You Thought That Was The Thinking Of A Fool ]
[ Would You Text Everyone (HELLO!) Everyday? ]
[ There Would Not Really Be Anyway ]
[ That You Could Complete That Task In A Few Minutes, Right?
[ ½ Way Through ]
[ You Would Find It Hard To Want To Continue To Type ]
[ (1) Day You Took Some Time To Read Down The List ]
[ There Were Numerous Names, Where You Asked Yourself
(WHO IS THIS?) ]
[ Some Of Them You Had No Clue ]
[ If You Were Standing In Front Of Them On A Sidewalk &
Trying Hard To Not Be Rude ]
[ You Would Ask (OKAY, WHO ARE YOU?) ]
[ We All Look So Different Compared To Back Then ]
[ So When You Look @ The Name ]
[ Are They Still A Friend? ]
[ Do You Even Know What City They Live In Right Now? ]
[ You Might Ask Yourself (HOW?) ]
[ Counting Every Single One Of Them, It Has Been 30 Years Since
You Had Any Kind Of Conversation With Them Face To Face ]
[ You Have Not Even Been In The Same Place ]
[ As Each Other That You Knew Of ]
[ Maybe They Were Walking Under A Bridge ]
[ & Then You Were Walking Up Above ]
[ You Ask Yourself (WHEN?) ]
[ It Could Have Happened ]
[ So You Started To Go Down The List & Hit (UNFRIEND) ]
[ Name After Name,Your Facebook Friendship With Them,
Had Now Come To An End ]
[ You Thought (IT FELT GOOD TO TRIM THAT LIST DOWN) ]
[ You Seriously Thought That Would Not Cause A Single
Frown ]
[ You Never Received Any Backlash ]
[ Or A Message Of Someone Wanting To Come Back ]
[ When You Put Stories On Your FB Page ]
[ Were You Showing Your Age? ]
[ Well, Of Course You Were ]
[ You Know Who Else Was? ]
[ Ummm, Him & Her! ]
[ When You Did Not Get Many (LIKES) Or Comments That Seemed
Disconcerting ]
[ & That Caused A Little Bit Of Hurting ]
[ But It Should Not ]
[ In The Bigger Scheme Of Things In Your World ]
[ It Is A Little Dot ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1103)▪︎[ Minute After Minute … 8•30•2019 ]
[ You Found That You Could Only Sleep Minute After
Minute ]
[ You Don’t Know Why ]
[ But Your Mind Was Not In It ]
[ A Minute Here & A Minute There ]
[ You’d Open Your Eyes & Just Stare ]
[ If I Woke Her Up ]
[ Would She Care? ]
[ Even Just A Little Bit? ]
[ Would She Just Give Me Lip? ]
[ Would You Just Be A Blip ]
[ On Her Screen Of Life ]
[ What Did She Consider Doing, As Your Wife? ]
[ Would She Even Consider Turning On The Light? ]
[ Would She Make The Room Look Like The Day ]
[ Instead Of It Being Dark As Night? ]
[ Would She Find A Way ]
[ To Turn This Into A Fight? ]
[ Considering How Things Went Today ]
[ She Might ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(536)▪︎[ It Is A Hard Place … 7•1•2021 ]
[ The World Outside Of Your Front Door Is A Hard Hard
Place ]
[ Everything Is Right There In Your Face ]
[ The Rain, The Sun, The Bogeyman ]
[ That Is When You Run ]
[ As Fast As You Can ]
[ You Seem To Want To Confide ]
[ That There Was No Where To Hide ]
[ That Is When Reality ]
[ Becomes Reality ]
[ For All To See ]
[ All Of A Sudden You Don’t Feel Free ]
[ How Can You Change These Circumstances? ]
[ How Can You Take So Many Chances ]
[ To Make Things Right? ]
[ Which Way Should I Turn To Flick The Switch That
Turns On The Light ]
[ Is It By The Light Of The Moon? ]
[ Or The Light When It’s The Afternoon? ]
[ Maybe That Light Could Be From The Oncoming
Train ]
[ Either Way It Will Cause Great Pain ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(002)▪︎[ Which Path … 1•1•2022 ]
[ There Are (2) Roads In Life To Choose From ]
[ (1) Could Make You Happy ]
[ While The Other Would Leave You Feeling Numb ]
[ Numb Because Your Life Would Be Filled With Bumps &
Bruises ]
[ Nobody Wants That Road ]
[ Because Everybody Loses ]
[ Nobody Wins ]
[ Everybody Committing Sins ]
[ Everything Spins Out Of Control ]
[ Because The Road Is Covered With Lost Souls ]
[ Is There A Way To Get To The Other Track? ]
[ There Must Be A Way To Come Back ]
[ To The Light Side ]
[ Where The Road Is Smooth & Wide ]
[ Where The Sun Would Shine ]
[ & You Have A Direct Route To Go Dakine ]
[ Where The Trees Are Plentiful With Fruit ]
[ Where The Babies Are Quiet & Cute ]
[ There Is No Contention Of Time ]
[ Where You Do Not Have To Choose Between A Ĺemon Or A Lime ]
[ Where You Do Not Choose Between The Two ]
[ & There Is No Such Thing As Wearing A Nike Shoe ]
[ A Nike Branded Shoe Turned Into Political Hype ]
[ That Is Why I Go With The (3) Stripes ]
[ All They Want Do Is Sell Shoes ]
[ Not Try To Get Society To Sing The Blues ]
[ They Did A Bad Political Move ]
[ That Put Them On A Different Groove ]
[ This Guy Does Not Kneel In Front Of The American Flag ]
[ That Is Not Your Bag ]
[ & That Swoosh Is Not Your Tag ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(545)▪︎[ So Confusing … 7•3•2021 ]
[ Life Can Be So Confusing ]
[ To You @ Times ]
[ But To Others, Watching You, Can Be So Amusing ]
[ When You Make A Mistake & You Get Frustrated Then Throw
Up Your Arms ]
[ Others Might Laugh ]
[ But They Mean You No Harm ]
[ A Mistake Is A Mistake In Your Mind ]
[ Laughter Is Good Medicine ]
[ You Will Find ]
[ Actually It Is The Best ]
[ It Passes Every Test ]
[ Should We All Look Up, To See ]
[ What Is Up Ahead & Free ]
[ Free From All Dyes, Smell & Taste ]
[ With Bullshit So Deep ]
[ It Is Up To Your Waist ]
[ It Is Not So Clear ]
[ Where You Would Go From Here ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(534)▪︎[ The Footprint … 6•30•2021 ]
[ Who Can Catch Lightning In A Bottle? ]
[ Is That The Daredevil Who Is Quick On The Throttle? ]
[ Driving Through Town As Fast As He Can ]
[ When You Think Of Him ]
[ You Could Say That He’s A (MAN’s MAN) ]
[ Is He The Only One That Can Leave A Footprint In The Dust? ]
[ Is Being A Daredevil A Must? ]
[ No, It’s Not, Is What You Say ]
[ You Try To Leave Your Foot Print Every Day ]
[ In The Sand, Clay, Mud Or Dirt ]
[ You Would Even Give A Man In Need, Your Own Shirt ]
[ Off Of Your Back ]
[ If You Really Think About It ]
[ That Was Just One Shirt Out Of A Big Stack ]
[ One Way That You Could Leave Your Footprint Is By What
You Can Give ]
[ You Also Can Leave An Impression By How You Live ]
[ Do You Walk, Take A Bus Or Ride The Train? ]
[ Or Do You Stay In The House & Refrain ]
[ & Play Games? ]
[ With People With Various Last Names? ]
[ If You Had One Wish, What Would It Be? ]
[ Would You Wish That One Wish ]
[ Would Turn Into Three? ]
[ & So On & So On Until Everybody Will Have One ]
[ Letting Everyone Have Some Fun ]
[ One Of Their Own ]
[ Maybe Some Would Wish For A Million Dollars ]
[ While Some Would Just Want An Ice Cream Cone ]
[ Leaving Your Handprint On This Earth ]
[ Does Not Prove Your Worth ]
[ Now Leaving Memories In Lots Of Different People’s
Mind ]
[ Is The Best Kind ]
[ Of Footprint ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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