[ My Mind Is So Full Of Thoughts ]
[ I Hope That Since The Year 2017 ]
[ I Have Written Down More Than I’ve Forgot ]
[ Words Come @ Me Really Fast ]
[ & I Have To Make A Rhyme That Makes Sense ]
[ Before It Has Passed ]
[ This Word Will Rhyme With That One ]
[ But Then I Need To Make More That Rhyme ]
[ Before The Story Is Even Close To Being Done ]
[ Will This Be Funny, Serious Or One That Makes
The Reader Think ]
[ Sometimes They May Miss The Meaning If They
Stop & Blink ]
[ What Will The Title Be? ]
[ That Is Always A Wait & See ]
[ I Will Tend To Read My Story All The Way Through ]
[ Because The Act Of Giving The Story A Title ]
[ Is The Last Thing I Tend To Do ]
[ I Have No Idea Which Way The Words Will Go ]
[ I Can’t Change The Direction Though ]
[ It Is Like A Fast Moving Train ]
[ & Thoughts Quickly Turnover In My Brain ]
[ Some Thoughts Flow Than Abruptly Stop ]
[ Just Like That ]
[ The Whole Idea Pops ]
[ Like A Helium Balloon ]
[ In An Empty Room ]
[ & Then It Is Gone ]
[ I Never Cry About The Loss ]
[ Because I Just Move On ]
[ To The Next ]
[ & Sometimes I Will Share Them In A Text ]
[ Once I See The Door ]
[ & The Rhyme Hits The Floor ]
[ I Cannot Write Anymore ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ Poetic Stories ]
(221)▪︎[ Things Change … 3•16•2021 ]
[ Whenever Charlie Brown Comes Home He Puts
Scooby-Doo In His Dog House ]
[ Because Scooby-Doo Is Not Liked By Charlie’s
Spouse ]
[ Veronica Used To Like Dogs ]
[ But That Was In Years Past When She Used To
Walk Around In Dansko’s Clogs ]
[ Times Change ]
[ & Then ]
[ The Questions & Answers Get Rearranged ]
[ Little Red Ran Away With The Big Mama Bear ]
[ Because Out Of The 3 Bears ]
[ Mama Seemed To Be The Only To Show Little Red
That She Cared ]
[ Making Little Bear Cry ]
[ & Leaving Pappa Bear High & Dry ]
[ Brair Rabbit Doesn’t Dig Up Her Food Anymore ]
[ Now She Puts Her Vegetables On The Shelves
That Are On The Inside Of The Refrigerator Door ]
[ The Tasmanian Devil Got Arrested For Driving Drunk ]
[ Someone Teased Him About How He Should Had
Walked Home, Instead ]
[ & They Were Answered With A ( YA THUNK? ) ]
[ As The World Turns ]
[ & Everybody’s Stomach Churns ]
[ Causing Everyone To Lose Sleep ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(214)▪︎[ Not Really … 3•15•2021 ]
[ Onward & Upward You Go ]
[ Where You Will Land ]
[ You Will Never Know ]
[ Things Are Several Mysteries All Rolled Into One ]
[ Some Takes Some Work ]
[ & Some Tune Out All Of The Fun ]
[ But Never Let Someone Ruin Your Life That Is Standing
Over There ]
[ That Is Where People Stand ]
[ When They Don’t Really Care ]
[ About Themselves Or You ]
[ They Are Reckless ]
[ & Dangerous ]
[ In What They Do ]
[ They Are Dangerous Because They Frequently Drive ]
[ While They Drink ]
[ They No Longer Feel Alive ]
[ When They Feel Numb When They Try To Think ]
[ One Person, Two Or Three Or Four ]
[ They Never Care Anymore ]
[ Who Dies ]
[ Or Who Thrives ]
[ Because They Became Dead Inside Many Years Ago ]
[ When Others Are Hoping For Sunshine ]
[ They Are Wanting It To Snow ]
[ & They Will Never Give You An Umbrella Or Render
Àid ]
[ When They Stand Right Next To You & Rain On Your
Parade ]
[ Or You Hit A Wall ]
[ On The Way To The Hospital ]
[ & You Can’t See ]
[ Your Way To The Room ]
[ For Your Much Needed Neck Surgery ]
[ Where & When They Will Commence In Cutting Open
Your Spine ]
[ You Will Not Whine ]
[ Because This Is Not Costing You A Dime ]
[ A Dime Is Quite Alot & Is A Big Deal ]
[ Especially If You Have No Idea ]
[ Where Or When You Will Be Getting Your Next Meal ]
[ So Time After Time ]
[ You Fill Your Days ]
[ Writing Rhyme After Rhyme ]
[ Some Make Sense ]
[ & Some Keep People Riding The Fence ]
[ On What The Story Really Means ]
[ Sometimes ]
[ Most Times ]
[ It Is Not What It Seems ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(211)▪︎[ Whatever Happened? … 3•14•2021 ]
[ I Hate That My Memory Has Become So Hazy ]
[ Sometimes I Feel That My Brain Has Become Really Lazy ]
[ It Seems That The Things That I Should Remember,
I Don’t ]
[ When I Really Want To Remember Something, I Won’t ]
[ Is It The Downside Of Aging? ]
[ Could It Be The Consequences From All Of Those
Years Where I Was Raging? ]
[ Raging Out Of Control? ]
[ But Wait ]
[ I Was Never Abusing Alcohol ]
[ So My Brain Is Not Pickled ]
[ Just Like I Am Never Affected By Being Tickled ]
[ I Can Control That Really Well ]
[ I May Be Laughing Hysterically Inside ]
[ But No One Would Ever Be Able To Tell ]
[ I Have No Idea Why I Have Been Able To Do This Now ]
[ I Really Don’t Know How ]
[ But I Do Not Understand Why My Memory Is
Faltering ]
[ Is My Brain Altering ]
[ Going Through Normal Life Changes? ]
[ So I Will Remember Less? ]
[ Will My Memory Stop? ]
[ Before I Drop? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(204)▪︎[ Appreciate What Is In Front Of You … 3•11•2021 ]
A ][° 204 °][ APPRECIATE WHAT IS IN FRONT OF YOU …
3•11•2021 ]
[ It Seems To Be So Easy To Take For Granted What
& Who Is In Right In Front Of Your Eyes ]
[ Most Of The Time It & Who Is There Is Way More
Important Than What Money Buys ]
[ A Person That Loves You Cannot Be Bought ]
[ But Are You Always Thankful For Who Is In That Spot? ]
[ That All Important Person On Your Right ]
[ The One That You Worry About When They Are No
Longer In Your Sight ]
[ Taking That Person For Granted Is So Easy To Do ]
[ Especially When They Are Always Around You ]
[ Because They Always Are ]
[ It Catches You Way Off Balance When You Realize That
You Have Drifted So Far ]
[ Are You Always Saying ( NO ) To Their Requests Every
Day? ]
[ Because That Is Just What You Always Say? ]
[ Have You Ever Gone Out On A Limb ]
[ For Him? ]
[ Have You Ever Said ( SURE ) ]
[ To Her? ]
[ You Tend To Dismiss ]
[ More Than You Miss ]
[ Those Questions Of His ]
[ It Is Never Too Late To Show Some Appreciation &
Gratitude ]
[ Instead Of Apprehension ]
[ & Attitude ]
[ When The Gratitude Is There It Is A ( YES ) ]
[ When It Is Not There Things Become A Mess ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(284)▪︎[ The Odd Child … 4•5•2021 ]
[ Are You The One Child Whose Life Seems Full
Of Disappointments? ]
[ Full Of Comments ]
[ & Other People’s Statements? ]
[ Saying So Many Lies ]
[ Talking About Your Feet & Then Your Eyes ]
[ Why Are There So Many Critics? ]
[ Cynics? ]
[ Every Body Who Has A Belly Button ]
[ Has An Opinion ]
[ They Are About As Welcomed As The Tears You Get
From Cutting An Onion ]
[ Uncontrollable & Constant ]
[ Wishing That They Would Keep Their Comments ]
[ In Their Mind ]
[ Sometimes It Up To You To Remind ]
[ Them That You Find ]
[ That What They Have Been Saying Is Not Very Kind ]
[ Some People Do Not Care If They Constantly Offend ]
[ They Are The Ones That Are So Difficult To Defend ]
[ Those Are The One’s That You Show Them The Gate ]
[ & Even Because They Just Ate ]
[ You Don’t Have To Be Polite & Wait ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(300)▪︎[ Who Are They … 4•10•2021 ]
[ Do You Ever Really Know That One Person That You
Love? ]
[ That One Person That You Are Always Thinking Of? ]
[ During Those Nights Where You Are Laying There Dreaming ]
[ Is He In The Next Room Scheming? ]
[ You Might Have Thoughts That Are Happy & Kind ]
[ But He Is Taking Several Medications To Try To Alter
His Evil Mind ]
[ You Really Do Not Know Who You’ve Got ]
[ Living With You & Your Kids In Your House ]
[ He Is Trying To Suppress His Homicidal Thoughts ]
[ That He Has About You, His Spouse ]
[ Ever Since He Became Your Groom ]
[ You Felt Uneasy That He Had No Explanation Or Reasons ]
[ On Why He Had To Have A Knife & Gun In Each Room ]
[ Oftentimes You Feel Uneasy When He Is On The Phone &
There Are Periods Of Uncomfortable Silence ]
[ He Talks Alot About His Past ]
[ When He Was Known To Be Very Violent ]
[ But He Completed His Full Year Of Anger Management
Classes That Were Court Ordered ]
[ You Think That You Should Hang Onto Those Heated
Phone Calls With Him, That You Previously Recorded? ]
[ It Would Cause Unneeded Problems ]
[ If He Would Ever Find Them ]
[ He Seemed To Be So Passionate ]
[ When You Two First Met ]
[ Do You Ever Know Him When His Mind Shifts To
The Dark Side? ]
[ He Says That He Won’t Seek Counseling ]
[ Because He Has, Too Much Pride ]
[ When You Have So Much Doubt ]
[ Do You Ever Worry About ]
[ How This Is Going To Play Out? ]
[ It Has Me Worried Since I Have Not Talked With You In Over
A Week ]
[ I Don’t Want To Go Over To Your House ]
[ & Look Down By The Creek ]
[ How Come Nobody Could Ever See? ]
[ This Tragedy? ]
[ Coming? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(428)▪︎[ Your Mind … 5•21•2021 ]
[ Where Is Your Mind? ]
[ Is It Lost? ]
[ Or Easy To Find? ]
[ What Has Made Your Head Hazy? ]
[ Is There Something That Is Driving You Crazy? ]
[ You Have Doubt ]
[ That You Can Figure This Out ]
[ Sometimes You Need To Bring Light Into The Room ]
[ The Darkness Makes Everything Seem Like Gloom & Doom ]
[ Light Into Your Eyes Means Light To The Brain ]
[ No More Days Of Cloudy With Rain ]
[ More Days In The Dark ]
[ Means More Clouds Trying To Make Their Mark ]
[ Clouds Float In Your Brain, Then Quietly & Slowly Float
Away ]
[ Some Clouds Float In & Then Stay ]
[ You Never Get To Pick ]
[ The One’s That Stick ]
[ It Is Usually Out Of The Norm ]
[ For Clouds To Turn Into Storms ]
[ Storms That May Cause Tornado Twisters Or Hurricanes ]
[ Those Are The Ones That Turns Your Blood Ice
Cold ]
[ As It Tries To Pump Through Your Veins ]
[ Storms Don’t Usually Affect Just You ]
[ Because It Seems That Is Not What They Are There To Do ]
[ Thunder & Lightning ]
[ Causing Tremendous Verbal Fighting ]
[ Usually With That One Person That You Love ]
[ The One That You Should Treat Like A Fragile White Dove ]
[ But Instead You Treat Them Like An Unwanted Crow ]
[ As You Look Around For Something To Throw ]
[ Calmer Heads Will Finally Prevail ]
[ Right Before The Storm Throws In Hail ]
[ The Clouds Eventually Float All Of The Way Through The
Sub-Conscience Part Of Your Brain ]
[ Ending Your Feeling Of Being A Runaway Train ]
[ Calm Settles In As You Realize That The Clouds Never
Stop ]
[ Or Ever Pop ]
[ So You Just Go On With Your Life, Waiting For The Next One ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(290)▪︎[ Get Back Up … 4•6•2021 ]
[ Some Say That When You Get Knocked Down ]
[ You Need To Get Back Up ]
[ So You Can Go & Own The Town ]
[ Owning The Town Is A Huge Responsibility ]
[ But Success ]
[ Is A Possibility ]
[ Put Your Nose To The Grindstone ]
[ Just Know That You Might Be Doing Most Of This
On Your Own ]
[ Work Through The Days When The Silence Gets
So Loud ]
[ You Are Alone In The Center Of An Empty Room ]
[ But It Feels Like You Are Being Smothered ]
[ By The Over Flowing Crowd ]
[ You Are Looking For A Way ]
[ To Get Away ]
[ Even For A Day ]
[ You Carry The World’s Problems Unevenly On Your
Broad Shoulders ]
[ As The Stress Tries To Break You ]
[ You Find That Small Rocks Turn Into Really Large
Boulders ]
[ When Can You Take ]
[ A Break? ]
[ Away From Your Mistakes? ]
[ Especially ]
[ & Specifically ]
[ The Large Ones That Are Forever In Your Memory Bank ]
[ The Ones That You Wish, You Never Made ]
[ Day In & Day Out ]
[ You Constantly Live With Doubt ]
[ Will You Make These Mistakes Again? ]
[ If So ]
[ Then, When? ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(323)▪︎[ Start New … 4•18•2021 ]
[ Run Away, Run Away ]
[ But Don’t Just Stay ]
[ Away For Only One Day ]
[ Pack Your Belongings In Five Grocery Bags ]
[ & Remind Yourself That You Won’t Be Going
Back ]
[ Once You Make Your Break ]
[ Never Return ]
[ To That Person That Just Takes ]
[ They Broke Your Heart ]
[ While Trying To Break You Down From The Very Start ]
[ It Is Time To Start Something New ]
[ Move To A Place Where The Water Is Crystal Blue ]
[ Go To The Beach & Walk Without Any Shoes On In The
Cool Sand ]
[ How Do You Feel Without Any Demands? ]
[ No One Around To Gives Commands ]
[ You Spend The First Night Of Many To Come ]
[ Surrounded By Quiet ]
[ Nobody Around To Tell You That You Are Dumb ]
[ You Close Your Eyes Not Hearing A Peep ]
[ For The First Time Since Childhood ]
[ You Got 10 Hours Of Uninterrupted Sleep ]
[ What Do You Say? ]
[ What Will You Do Today? ]
[ You Notice That For The First Time Since You Were A Child ]
[ You Are Letting Your Imagination Go Wild ]
[ You Have Been Suppressed For So Long ]
[ You Have Convinced Yourself ]
[ That Free Thinking Was Wrong ]
[ You Decide That This Is Going To Take Some Undoing ]
[ You Need To Teach Yourself ]
[ A Whole Different Technique Of Self-Soothing ]
[ How Far Must You Run? ]
[ During Your Deepest, Darkest, Depressing Times ]
[ Aren’t You Glad That You Sold Your Guns? ]
[ Some People Say That Statistics Show That Most
Of The Time When There Are Guns In The House ]
[ They Can End Up In Their Owners Mouth ]
[ Those Are The Days That You Want To Leave In The Rearview
Mirror ]
[ Those Are The Voices That You No Longer Want To Hear ]
[ The Only Way To A Healthier Mind ]
[ Is To Erase The Memories That You Don’t Want To Rewind ]
[ ( TAKE SHERPA STEPS ), Can Apply In So Many Situations In Life ]
[ That Saying Is Never Boxed In By Lines ]
[ Find & Build A Whole New Network Of People To Create
Your Inner Circle ]
[ Teach Them New Card Games ]
[ & Introduce Them To A Fun Game Called ( QUIRCLE ) ]
[ Start New & Start Over ]
[ Don’t Feel Defind By Your Next Lover ]
[ Take This As An Obvious Cue ]
[ Start To Live Your Life For One Person … You ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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