[ 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 ]
Category: [ Poetic Stories ]
(504)▪︎[ I Miss The Competition … 6•19•2021 ]
[ There Are So Many Times That I Miss When I Was Physically
Able To Compete ]
[ I Miss Going To The Gym On Sunday & Lifting Hard ]
[ Than Going On Monday To Repeat ]
[ The Feeling I Get When My Muscles Contract ]
[ The Feeling I Get When My Chest & The Bar Make Contact ]
[ Gripping The Bar Tight With Both Hands ]
[ Contracting My Body Like A Tight Rubberband ]
[ Even In Warm-Ups I Had Razor Sharp Focus ]
[ Bench Pressing Heavy Weights Did Not Use The Magical
Words Of ( HOCUS-POCUS ) ]
[ I Met The Powerlifting Team In The Summer Of 1994 ]
[ The Tequnique They Were Using Made Me Want To Watch
Alot More ]
[ I Took A Chance To Ask One Of The Team Members ]
[ I Told Him ( I MET YOU A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO IN THE
GYM ) ]
[ & I Was Hoping That He Remembered ]
[ It Was A Big Chance ]
[ Because He Looked Like He Didn’t Remember Me @ First
Glance ]
[ I Could See The Memory Come Back In ]
[ Then He Said ( HEY IT’s GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN ) ]
[ We Chatted & I Asked Him About Competing ]
[ I Felt Like This Was A Chance Meeting ]
[ He Then Went On To Say ]
[ To Come Meet The Team The Next Saturday ]
[ The Next Week In The Gym It Was Like The Start Of A Long
Time Wanted Dream ]
[ I Waited On The Side ]
[ Until He Introduced Me To The Rest Of His Team ]
[ They Were Large Muscular, Strong Looking Men ]
[ & Women ]
[ They Asked Me ( WHAT DO YOU WEIGH? ) ]
[ Everybody Went Quiet To Hear What I Would Say ]
[ I Said ( ABOUT 160 POUNDS, MAYBE ) ]
[ Then This Very Large Man, Who Was The Coach ]
[ Said ( HI MY NAME IS TERRY )
[ He Told Me That I Could Fit Into Their 165lb Slot ]
[ Then He Said ( LAY DOWN ON THE BENCH & LET’s SEE
WHAT YOU’ve GOT ) ]
[ Compared To Where I Ended Up In My Lifting Career ]
[ It Was Not Alot ]
[ My Overall Goal Was To Benchpress Three Times My
Bodyweight ]
[ Well That Dream Will Forever Have To Wait ]
[ My First Competition Was In The Summer Of 1995 ]
[ In 1998 I Showed That I Had Finally Arrived ]
[ I Set My First World Record @ The World’s In 1998 ]
[ That Was The Competition Where I Became A World
Champion Teammate ]
[ It Felt So Good To Get That First, First Place Trophy ]
[ @ The World’s ]
[ Nobody Can Take That Away From Me ]
[ I Went To A Total Of 3 World Championships ]
[ So By The End Of My Career, I Had A Total Of Three ]
[ My Benchpressing Goal Was 495 ]
[ & That Was No Lie ]
[ I Only Got To 475 ]
[ So I Was 20lbs Shy ]
[ I Started In ’94 As A Novice & The Team Needed To Show
Me ]
[ Everything About How To Lift ]
[ @ The End I Was A World Champion, Times Three ]
[ & Found That My Ability Was A Gift ]
[ Through Alot Of Hard Work & Support ]
[ Oh How I Miss Competing In That Sport ]
~ 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 ]
(499)▪︎[ Oh, That Fun Son … 6•17•2021]
[ Nothing Is Sacred, Nothing, Is Out Of Bounds ]
[ Then, Nobody Makes Any Sounds ]
[ He Crosses The Line ]
[ Every … Single … Time ]
[ I Buy Something New & He Uses It ]
[ I Buy Something New & He Breaks It ]
[ Or Ruins It ]
[ It Doesn’t Matter What It Is ]
[ Whenever I Get Something New, He Thinks It Is His ]
[ He Comes Into Our Bedroom To Search ]
[ Like An Eagle Sitting On Their Perch ]
[ He Sets Off Such Rage ]
[ Because It Does Not Matter His Age ]
[ He Has Done This Since 8 Or 9 Years Old ]
[ Even @ Such A Young Age, He Was Very Bold ]
[ When Does This Stop? ]
[ When Can I Let The Restrictions Drop? ]
[ When Should I Make Him Leave? ]
[ Because He Doesn’t Fall In With What I Believe? ]
[ The Things He Is Doing Is So Disgusting & Crude ]
[ I Am Really Going To Start Giving A Cold Attitude ]
[ & What He Is Doing Is Gross ]
[ Like Trying To Eat A Piece Of Burnt Toast ]
[ Maybe He Will Cross The Line That Will Land Him In Jail ]
[ I Wouldn’t Accept Any Personal Mail ]
[ Because I Won’t Come Up With Money To Make His Bail ]
[ Maybe He Will Learn ]
[ When It Will Be His Turn ]
[ If Not … He Could Just Watch His Future Burn ]
[ Up ]
~ 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 ]
(487)▪︎[ Where Did It All Go? … 6•13•2021 ]
[ I Should Have Summoned Up The Powers ]
[ To Give You All My Hours ]
[ Time Slips By Way Too Fast ]
[ & Memories Oftentimes Do Not Last ]
[ Sometimes Gravity ]
[ Keeps Ahold Of Me ]
[ Just When I Want To Float ]
[ I Turn To Grab My Coat ]
[ But Gravity Is Like An Ankle Weight ]
[ Holding Me Down In A Frozen State ]
[ I Always Needed You Be My Side ]
[ I Liked To Walk With You ]
[ Smiling, With Alot Of Pride ]
[ Sometimes Things Were Hot With Us ]
[ Then They Weren’t ]
[ & I Have No Idea When The Wheels Came Off The Bus ]
[ I Used To Think Our Bond Was Strong ]
[ Which One Of The Past Years Was To Blame ]
[ For When Everything Went Wrong? ]
[ All Of My Future Plans Went Up In Smoke ]
[ All Of Our Pinkie Deals Are Now Forever Broke ]
[ ( HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? ) Is What I Yell ]
[ All Of My Dreams Have Gone To Hell ]
[ When We Were Together, I Felt That I Was Living The Dream ]
[ Now I Feel Like I Am In A Paddleless Canoe ]
[ Trying To Travel Upstream ]
[ Who Would Have Thought That Everything Would Have
Been Swept Down The Drain ]
[ With The Next Big Rain ]
[ Dreams Come ]
[ & Dreams Go ]
[ I Feel So Dumb ]
[ With The Things That I Now Know ]
[ Will This Affect Me In My Next Relationship ]
[ Well Maybe Next Time, I Won’t Want To Be Connected @ The Hip ]
[ Maybe Give Her Alot More Room ]
[ Before I Start Picturing Myself As Her Groom ]
[ Whoever Said That Time Heals All Wounds Was Not Always
Right ]
[ Sometimes After The Darkness Comes ]
[ It Is Hard To See The Light ]
[ Maybe I Will Have Better Luck Next Time ]
[ Unless You Can Only Find Luck In Stories That Rhyme ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
