[ To My Wife ]
[ The One Woman Whom I Said That I Will Love For
The Rest Of My Life ]
[ When I Said ( I DO ) ]
[ That I Will ]
[ Love You ]
[ Then ]
[ & I Want To Tell You That I Love You Still ]
[ There Is One Thing That I Know ]
[ That It Was Well Over 9,133 Days Ago ]
[ When I Decided That I Could Never Let You Go ]
[ It Would Certainly Hurt The Heart Of This Plain, Old,,
Ordinary Guy ]
[ If Another Man Could Catch Your Eye ]
[ I Am A Simple Man With Really Simple Tastes ]
[ As I Get Older ]
[ I Am Sorry About My Ever Expanding Waist ]
[ We Are Not The Spring Chickens Anymore ]
[ So We Cannot Dance As Long As We Did Before ]
[ I Always Love Telling New Acquaintenances Our Wonderful
Love Story ]
[ I Must Have Told It @ Least 25 Times ]
[ & It’s Never Boring ]
[ It Sure Has Been A Bumpy Ride ]
[ I Tell Everyone About Our Longevity With Pride ]
[ If I Had The Choice To Do This All Over Again ]
[ I Would Say ( YES ) ]
[ Again & Again ]
[ I Think The Phrase I Was Looking For Was ( IN A NEW
YORK MINUTE ) ]
[ Yes, I Will Jump Back In It ]
[ Meeting You Almost 27 Years Ago Was Perfect Timing ]
[ Who Knew That Four Years Ago ]
[ I Would Receive The Gift From God That I Could Write
Stories That Are Rhyming ]
[ We Have Been Through So Much, But We Stayed
Together ]
[ We Never Discarded Each Other When There Was A Change
In The Weather ]
[ Since We Live In Oregon There Are 10 Changes Every Day ]
[ When The Negative People Voiced Their Opinion ]
[ We Continue To Stay ]
[ We Are Good With Hunches ]
[ & We Have Never Resorted To Throwing Punches ]
[ We Never Touch Each Other In An Angry Way ]
[ We Keep Loving Each Other Even Though The Hair On My
Head Nearly All Went Away ]
[ It All Went Away To La-La Land ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
Category: [ Poetic Stories ]
(362)▪︎[ The Frustration Sets In … 4•30•2021 ]
[ As The Frustration Sets In ]
[ I Said To Myself ( NOT THIS AGAIN ) ]
[ Then I Think ( I JUST CAN’t WIN ) ]
[ So You ]
[ Think That This Is All Brand New? ]
[ Well Let Me Tell You A Thing Or Two ]
[ This Is Something Real ]
[ You Are Not Reinventing The Wheel ]
[ Here ]
[ Do I Make Myself Clear? ]
[ I’ve Tried & Tried ]
[ As He Has Lied & Lied ]
[ After All Of This Time ]
[ Part Of Me Has Actually Died ]
[ So Don’t Come In Here & Point Your Finger ]
[ @ All Of This ]
[ Because What Lingers ]
[ Is The Constant Diss ]
[ You Have Been Here A Grand Total Of About A Week ]
[ & I’ll Sit Here & Let You Speak ]
[ Your Piece ]
[ & I’ll Say Nothing ]
[ Just To Keep The Peace ]
[ So I Will Watch You Dance]
[ & Give You The Chance ]
[ Because As You Think You Are Rearranging ]
[ His Attitude ]
[ I Say That Are Only Changing ]
[ The Altitude ]
[ & Are Hanging ]
[ My Gratitude ]
[ You Have All Of These Ideas That You Think That Are Grand ]
[ Then I Will Sit Quietly ]
[ Wanting To Ask ( AND? ) ]
[ So Don’t Come @ Me Self-Righteously ]
[ Acting Like You Are In Command ]
[ Normally, I Am A Very Calm Guy ]
[ But In MY Home ]
[ This Just Doesn’t Fly ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(370)▪︎[ The PTSD That I Have Come To Know … 5•2•2021 ]
[ There Are Times When I Feel Like I Could Get So Lost In
My Mind ]
[ But In There Lies The Danger Of The Memories ]
[ That I Hate To Hit The Button To Rewind ]
[ The Thick Air Of That Hot August Day In The Year
2002 ]
[ When That Flashback Comes ]
[ There Is Only One Thing I Can Do ]
[ Just Sit There & Suffer Through Another Flashback ]
[ It Will Be 19 Years ]
[ & The PTSD Still Attacks ]
[ Takes Over My Brain, My Body, My Whole Day ]
[ It Always Comes @ Me The Same Way ]
[ The Sound Of A Fire Extinguisher Hitting A Kid’s Head ]
[ Then Look Where That Led ]
[ I Was Never Sure Why They Attacked David ]
[ While He Was Just Sitting Helpless On His Bed ]
[ I Was Directed ( TO NOT ENGAGE @ ALL ) ]
[ When Mario Would Demand My Keys ]
[ All I Could Do Say Was ( I WOULD NEED TO MAKE A CALL ) ]
[ I Knew What They Would Say ]
[ ( THAT WOULD BE A NO, OKAY ) ]
[ Let Them Be Mad @ Security Instead Of Me ]
[ I Knew That I Could Never Hand Over My Keys ]
[ The Time Dragged After They Barricaded The Door With
Desks & Mattresses ]
[ I Think That Increased My Stressors ]
[ When There Is A Flashback, There Will Be A Form Of PTSD ]
[ No One Else Can See ]
[ How Debilitating Flashbacks Can Be ]
[ It Literally Takes My Mind From Here ]
[ To Then ]
[ It Was Always Clear ]
[ About The Why & The When ]
[ Every Word ]
[ That Was Said Or Heard ]
[ That Makes For A Long Night ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[ It Is Always
(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 ) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(402)▪︎[ It Sets In Slowly … 5•11•2021 ]
[ A Sense Of Isolation Is Starting To Set In ]
[ When Will This End? ]
[ When Did It Actually Begin? ]
[ Was It Yesterday Or Ten Years Ago? ]
[ The Exact Date Was … ]
[ Well I Really Don’t Know ]
[ It Seems Like It Drifted In While I Slept ]
[ I Cannot Remember How Many Nights That I Wept ]
[ Yes, Grown Men DO Cry ]
[ When I Read You A Really Sad Story ]
[ I Don’t Want To See A Dry Eye ]
[ This Isn’t About How Debilitating PTSD ]
[ Is For Me ]
[ No, Not This Rhyme ]
[ No, Not This Time ]
[ Maybe If I Was A Huge Loud Bird ]
[ My Words ]
[ Would Be Heard ]
[ Since I Am Not A Betting Man ]
[ I Don’t Think That I Can ]
[ Definitely Not In My Own ]
[ Home ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(566)▪︎[ Strikes A Nerve … 6•16•2020 ]
[ Sometimes Things, Words, Events Really Hit Close To Home ]
[ Where Or When Did This Start ]
[ That Is Not Known ]
[ When I Was Very Young, I Had A Bad Night ]
[ It Was Because My Dad Was Drunk ]
[ So He & His Girlfriend Decided To Argue & Fight ]
[ My Dad Made The Worst Decision He Had Ever Made ]
[ He Got His Gun ]
[ & It Was His Life That He Gave ]
[ It Was Not Fun ]
[ To See His Name On A Grave ]
[ But The Rest Of Us @ Home That Night Survived ]
[ But Was I Really Alive? ]
[ There Have Been Bumps & Turns ]
[ Suntans & Burns ]
[ Everybody Had Bad Events Growing Up ]
[ Every Kid Had Times When They Just Wanted To Keep
Their Eyes Shut ]
[ But The Point Is To Get Back Up & Fight Again & Again ]
[ That Is The Only Way You Win ]
[ But My Friends, I Write My Thoughts & I Feel What I Write ]
[ Nobody Says What Is Wrong Or Right ]
[ I Just Want To Turn On The Light ]
[ To Begin Another Day ]
[ To Find A Way ]
[ To Write What I Want To Say ]
[ It’s Not Wrong ]
[ To Have Those Moments When You Don’t Feel Strong ]
[ Don’t Make Hasty Decisions, Without Thinking Ahead ]
[ If You Are Not Feeling Well ]
[ Lay Your Head Down On Your Bed ]
[ & Go To Sleep ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(560)▪︎[ The Elusive Unicorn … 6•13•2020 ]
[ Where Is The Elusive Unicorn ]
[ I Feel That I’ve Been Searching For Her ]
[ 21 Years After I Was Born ]
[ What City, Or State Should I Look? ]
[ There Is No ( UNICORN ) Definition ]
[ In Any Magazine Or Book ]
[ Does She Have Black, Brown, Red Or Blonde Hair ]
[ Is Her Skin Tan, Or Fair? ]
[ I Won’t Know ]
[ Until I See Her Standing Right There ]
[ Will She Ever Stand In One Place? ]
[ So I Could Turn Her Around ]
[ & See Her Face? ]
[ Does Every Guy Search For A Unicorn Of Their Own? ]
[ Or Is This Quest ]
[ For Me To Complete All Alone? ]
[ I Climb Up On Every Perch ]
[ In Sight ]
[ So I Can Search & Search ]
[ Until There Is No More Light ]
[ I Hear The Tic-Tok, Tic-Tok ]
[ Of The Wall Clock ]
[ I Get Tired After A Walk ]
[ Around The Block ]
[ Then The Alarm Clock Goes Off & Shakes ]
[ Every Morning ]
[ This How I Wake ]
[ Nothing Is Boring ]
[ After The Deep Breath’s I Take ]
[ Through All This Time It Seems ]
[ That The Unsuccessful Search Has Just Been In My Dreams ]
[ Because My Dream Told Me That My Unicorn Has Always Been
In My Own House ]
[ For When I Look In The Bed Next To Me ]
[ My Unicorn Has Always Been My Spouse ]
[ For The Last 26 Years Of My Life ]
[ My Unicorn Has Always Been My Beautiful Wife ]
[ & Some People Swear That Dreams Never Come True ]
[ But From My Point Of View ]
[ Mine Has ]
[ So I Wish Yours Does Too! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(559)▪︎[ A Horrible Event … 6•13•2020 ]
[ The 911 Attack On America Was A Horrible, Horrible Event ]
[ Millions Of Dollars Must Had Been Spent ]
[ To Create & Follow Through With This Terrorist Attack ]
[ When They Stabbed America In The Back ]
[ I Don’t Understand The Mindset Of The People Who Came
Up With This Plan ]
[ I’m Glad That The Military Eventually Tracked ]
[ Then Shot This Cowardly Man ]
[ That Is Too Bad He Died Such A Peaceful Death ]
[ Even He Couldn’t Hide ]
[ Using His Wealth ]
[ It Took Awhile For Them To Raise Their Hand ]
[ To Take The Credit ]
[ For Seeing This Through Under Their Command ]
[ But There Was Not Even The Slightest Bit ]
[ Of Some Kinds Of Demand ]
[ No Ransom Was Asked For ]
[ There Was No Knocking On The Door ]
[ To Give Any Warning Of This Horror ]
[ Or Even The Slightest Word ]
[ That There Could Be More ]
[ Bombings, Highjackings Or Hostages Taken ]
[ No One Knows What Else Is In The Making ]
[ No One Wants Any Of This To Happen Again ]
[ No One Knew When This Began ]
[ & No One Knows When This Will End ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(556)▪︎[ Why Are These People Out There … 6•12•2020 ]
[ Why Are There So Many People Out There That Just Use, Use
& Use ]
[ They Are The Ones Who Have No Problems With Handing
Out Abuse ]
[ Just To Hook You By The Collar ]
[ So That It Would Cause You To Choke ]
[ & You Will Hand Over Every Dollar ]
[ Until You Are Broke ]
[ They First Start ]
[ By Finding People ]
[ Who Have A Big Heart ]
[ & When They Do Find Them ]
[ Their Only Goal Is To Tear Your Life Apart ]
[ Money Is Their Goal ]
[ So After Talking With You ]
[ They Figure Out The Role ]
[ That They Would Have To Play ]
[ So They Can Get Paid ]
[ These People Are So Bold ]
[ & Their Game Is So Old ]
[ & They’ll Leave You For Dead ]
[ As You Grow Cold ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
(549)▪︎[ Sorry … There Is Nobody Here … 6•8•2020 ]
[ So I Hear You Called 911 To Get Some One To Help ]
[ They Said That They Can’t ]
[ Because Everyone Has Been Fired Because Of Bad Remarks
On Yelp ]
[ There Are No Police Cars To Send Because None Of Them
Are In Working Condition ]
[ They All Were Damaged During The Peaceful Demonstrations ]
[ No One Is Held Accountable For The Bottles That Were Thrown ]
[ You Too Can Throw Bricks ]
[ & Then Hide Virtually To Stay Unknown ]
[ Nails Thrown Down Went Well With All Of The Sticks ]
[ We Can’t Move Any Police Cars Because All Of The Tires Were
Blown ]
[ Gathering Into The Night ]
[ Is Your Constitutional Right ]
[ & When Everyone Sees The Damage ]
[ They All Say ( OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT ) ]
[ Because Violence Really Gets Your Point Across ]
[ Go Damage All You Want ]
[ Because You Go Home Not Bothered, Because It Is Not Your Loss ]
[ Has The Meaning Of The Demonstration Been Lost? ]
[ On Some Businesses Being Closed ]
[ Because They Can’t Afford The Cost? ]
[ Now Don’t Call That 911 Dispatcher A Bold Face Liar ]
[ Because She Said That The Fire Department Will Not Go
Anywhere That’s Violent ]
[ No Matter The Size Of The Fire ]
[ They Say That It’s Too Bad That A Violent Gang Is Robbing
You ]
[ Maybe They’ll Stop ]
[ After They Take Your Expensive Nike Tennis Shoes ]
[ Go Buy Yourself Some Guns To Use For Your
Own Protection ]
[ Oh, But First You Must Say ]
[ You Will Need A Demonstration? ]
[ But Didn’t That Lying 911 Operator Make It Perfectly Clear ]
[ They Fired All Of The Police ]
[ So There Is Nobody Here ]
[ Oh, You Don’t Like The Violence? ]
[ Because It Makes You Tear ]
[ Now That All Of The Police Got Fired ]
[ You Can Now Live In Actual Fear ]
[ The 911 Operator Did Not Taunt ]
[ When She Said That Through Public Pressure The Police
Department Was Closed ]
[ So The Public Could Get What They Want ]
[ So Now The 911 Dispatcher Only Wants To Give The Public
The Best ]
[ That The Public Wants To Pay For ]
[ Now That It Is The Wild Wild West ]
[ You Spend More Time Layng Unconscious On The Floor ]
[ Before The 911 Operator Wishes You Luck ]
[ Where The Crime Rate Really Sucks ]
[ She Said ( THANK YOU FOR CALLING … JUST REMEMBER
TO DUCK ) ]
[ So As You Look @ Your Phone ]
[ & All You Hear Is The Dial Tone ]
[ I Ask ( HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE TRULY ON YOUR OWN? ) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
|| Mahalo iā ‘oe ||
|| A hui hou mākou ||
|| Aloha ||
|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||
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