[ I Am Just Sitting Here In The Dark ]
[ With Nothing But My Thoughts ]
[ Wondering If My Life Is In Neutral Or Park ]
[ I Seem To Be Running Uphill On A Treadmill
Not Getting Anywhere ]
[ The Main Problem With This Is That I Have Lost The
Desire To Care ]
[ As I Sit Here I Do Not Hear A Thing ]
[ So I Watch The Phone ]
[ & Hope That It Would Ring ]
[ Minutes Drag By, Then They Turn Into Hours ]
[ Everytime I Think Things Are Going Well ]
[ It Turns Upside Down & Sours ]
[ Those That I Thought Were Friends Jumped Ship
When The Waters Got Rough ]
[ I Would Always Listen To Their Problems When
Their Lives Got Tough ]
[ But I Never Thought That They Would Turn Their Back ]
[ It Feels Like When I Spoke Up]
[ My Face Got Smacked ]
[ I Always Turned The Other Cheek ]
[ Or Correct The Facts Whenever They Would Speak ]
[ I Never Put Them On The Spot ]
[ Because They Were Wrong Alot ]
[ But One Thing That I Have Come To Realize ]
[ In My Years ]
[ Is That People Come & Go Throughout All Of Our Lives ]
[ Like Two Ships Passing Each Other On A Very Dark Night ]
[ I Am In Their Thoughts ]
[ Until I Am No Longer In Their Sight ]
[ But This All Goes Full Circle As I Sit Here Alone ]
[ The Silence Gives Off Its Own Peculiar Tone ]
[ & It Has Been Shown ]
[ That It Always Sends A Chill Clear To My Bones ]
[ I Have To Turn Around & See What I Don’t See ]
[ & Come To Realize This Is How My Life Is Going To Be ]
[ I Bet After I Slowly Count From 1 To 3 ]
[ I Could Look Around & It Would Still Only Be … Me ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Category: [ Poetic Stories ]
(94)▪︎[ Wake-Up … 1•27•2021 ]
[ Okay People Wake-Up, Because While The Earth
Keeps Turning ]
[ The Earth Is Burning ]
[ We As Humans Are Ruining The Atmosphere ]
[ All Over The World ]
[ & Especially Right Here ]
[ What Makes This So Clear ]
[ Was All Of The Fires That Happened Last Year ]
[ The Air In So Many States ]
[ Was A Smoky Haze ]
[ While Mother Nature Set The Land Ablaze ]
[ It Was Never Known ]
[ Or Ever Shown ]
[ Exactly How Many Families Lost Their Homes ]
[ They Say That Everyone Needs To Work On Shrinking Their
Carbon Footprint ]
[ This Is No Longer A Marathon ]
[ It Must Be A Sprint ]
[ Everyday The Air Quality Gets Worse Than The Day
Before ]
[ The Dangerous Smog Used To Be @ A High Altitude ]
[ Now It Seeps Into The House By Coming Through The
Door ]
[ We Won’t Get A Second Chance ]
[ @ This Life Or Death Dance ]
[ Once There Are Holes ]
[ In The Atmosphere ]
[ They Never Close ]
[ It Sure Does Not Sound Like Fun ]
[ To Look @ All Of The Damage That We Have Caused ]
[ That Cannot Be Undone ]
[ The Oceans & Air Keep Getting Warmer Every Year ]
[ That Makes The Problems Standout Very Clear ]
[ Because Of The Past Abuse Of The Earth ]
[ We Have A Whole Lot To Fear ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(91)▪︎[ A Snow Day … 1•26•2021 ]
[ Snow Makes Such The Prettiest Sight ]
[ In The Daylight ]
[ Then The White ]
[ Ground ]
[ Is In Total Contrast To The Night ]
[ It Is All White & Soft Looking To The Touch ]
[ But If It Snows Too Much ]
[ It Makes The Roads Rough ]
[ & Driving In It Tough ]
[ This Kind Of Weather Makes Most Oregonians Forget How
To Drive ]
[ Everyone Just Wants To Get To Their Destination In One
Piece & Alive ]
[ I Used To Hate Driving When It Was Snowing Hard ]
[ When My Car Would Start To Slide ]
[ I Was Always Fearing That I Would Crash Into Somebody’s
Yard ]
[ I Still Vividly Remember The Day ]
[ When I Spun My Car & Landed In The Median ]
[ On The I-5 Freeway ]
[ That Made Me Turn Around In My Car & Crawl As Slow As A
Scared Little Mouse ]
[ All The Way Back To Barbara’s House ]
[ That Was Not Fun By Any Means ]
[ I Had Not Been That Scared Driving Since My Early Teens ]
[ Now That I Don’t Drive The Thoughts In My Head Are Not
Too Bad ]
[ But The Thoughts Of Being The Passenger @ Times Makes
Me Sad ]
[ Now I Watch Other People Sweat ]
[ Being Inside ]
[ I Am Sure Now, That I Won’t Get Wet ]
[ I Will Stay Inside Where It Is Warm & Dry ]
[ If Someone Asks Me To Go Outside ]
[ I Will Give Them My Best Quizzical Look & Politely Ask
Them ( WHY? ) ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(89)▪︎[ I Should Do,What He’s Due … 1•25•2021 ]
[ It Is So So, Sad ]
[ What Needs To Be Done ]
[ To Change His Behavior When He Gets Mad ]
[ It Would Take A Talk From A Very Good Friend ]
[ To Get His Negative Behavior To Come To An End ]
[ He Walks Around Here Like He Runs The Place ]
[ It Is About Time That Someone Actually Gets
In His Face ]
[ Maybe One Day I Will Sit & Watch The Clock ]
[ & Let Him Yap ]
[ Until I Hear A Soft Knock ]
[ My Friend Would Come, If I Called ]
[ My Friend Would Pin Him Against The Wall ]
[ Then We Could See How He Acts ]
[ When My Friend Tells Him The Actual Facts ]
[ & Cement The Facts Into His Dome ]
[ As My Friend Tells Him Who Really Runs This Home ]
[ He Would Be Sent To The Corner If He Needed To
Pout ]
[ He Won’t Have Any Need For The Use Of Violence ]
[ There Won’t Be The Need To Shout ]
[ It Sucks How I See ]
[ How He Won’t Listen To Me ]
[ But I Have Resigned Myself To This Situation As It Is ]
[ As He Was Growing Up ]
[ I Never Ever Thought That Things Would Come To This ]
[ After He Said That He Never Respects Me As His Father ]
[ When He Was Ten ]
[ I Should Have Asked Myself ( WHY SHOULD I CONTINUE
TO BOTHER ) ]
[ Right There & Then ]
[ But I Still Do ]
[ Maybe A Long Talk With My Friend Is What He’s Due ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(88)▪︎[ Suspenseful?… 1•25•2021 ]
[ Suspense, Is Hard To Have @ Anytime ]
[ So I Wonder, If I Can Give Some, While I Write This Rhyme ]
[ Something Happened, That Has Been A Long Time Coming ]
[ So Having Suspense ]
[ Can Be Extremely, Mind Numbing ]
[ Sometimes The Suspense, Can Get Into Your Thoughts ]
[ One Second Your Mind Was Clear ]
[ & The Next Second, You Are Seeing Spots ]
[ Can It Affect Your Appetite? ]
[ @ Night? ]
[ Hmm … ]
[ That Thought, Makes Me Hungry, As I Write ]
[ Sometimes, Wanting A Drink Of Water Comes First ]
[ Can Suspense, Really Affect Your Thirst? ]
[ It Has Never Affected Mine ]
[ Having Suspense Has Never Driven Me, To Crave A Beer ]
[ Or A Whole Bottle Of Wine ]
[ Suspense, Affects Others Differently ]
[ Has This Rhyme Done This, Sufficiently? ]
[ Let Me See, Let Me See ]
[ What, Could It Be? ]
[ It Is Really A Shame That She Could Not Be Here Tonight For
Her Shift ]
[ I Wanted, To Share The News ]
[ That Gave Me, A Much Needed Lift ]
[ It Sure Is Fun To Make Her Laugh ]
[ Has Any Part Of This Story ]
[ Cut The Suspense In Half? ]
[ I Tried To Come Out & Share ]
[ But She Is Not Here Right Now ]
[ She Is Somewhere Else, Over There ]
[ So Before I Send … ]
[ This ]
[ I Will End … ]
[ With This ]
[ Goodnight, Ash ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(087)▪︎[ Just Another Day … 1•24•2021 ]
[ Sometimes I Feel That I Am Alone Way Too Much ]
[ It Usually Starts Right After Lunch ]
[ I Do Like My Alone Time, So Don’t Get Me Wrong ]
[ A Couple Of Hours During The Day ]
[ But Not For This Long ]
[ Hours On Top Of Each Other ]
[ All Alone ]
[ Is Sometimes Worse Than Having Someone Here That
Smothers ]
[ I Won’t Lie ]
[ But I Like Good Conversation As Much As The Next Guy ]
[ Not So Much Over The Phone ]
[ I Prefer It Being Eye To Eye ]
[ I Do Hear Distant Voices In The Background ]
[ But They Stay Over There ]
[ Because They Just Don’t Come Around ]
[ I Try To Be Happy ]
[ While Sitting By Myself ]
[ Watching My Steelers DVD’s ]
[ It Is Very Entertaining Watching Hour After Hour Of Steelers
Football ]
[ I Won’t Stop Until I Have Watched Them All ]
[ I Love Watching My Steelers Win ]
[ Again, Again, Again & Again ]
[ I Would Love To Show & Share ]
[ [ With Another Person That Also Cares ]
[ Being Left Alone Is Not Considered As Time Well Spent ]
[ One Minute Feels Like An Hour ]
[ So It Doesn’t Make A Dent ]
[ Into The Many Hours That I Have Ahead Of Me ]
[ These Are Some Of The Things That I Think Of When I Feel
Lonely ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(845)▪︎[ The Waves … 10•4•2020 ]
[ The Sounds Of The Ocean Waves Are So Relaxing ]
[ Moving Around The City Can Be So Taxing ]
[ People Running Around Going Everywhere ]
[ & Nobody Getting Anywhere ]
[ Then You Come To The Beach & Smell That Wonderful
Ocean Air ]
[ The Constant Roar ]
[ Of The Waves ]
[ Keeps My Attention Even More ]
[ Than The Sights Around Me ]
[ But It Took Years For Me To Realize ]
[ How Hypnotic The Ocean Can Be ]
[ & The Enormity Of Its Size ]
[ The Waves Are Like The Fingerprints On The Hand ]
[ No Two Of Them Are The Same ]
[ Nobody Can ]
[ Give Every One Of Them A Name ]
[ Right When The Wave Breaks On The Beach It Is Gone ]
[ It Heads Back Out ]
[ It Keeps Moving On ]
[ Never Staying In The Same Place For Very Long ]
[ The Waves Come In Loud & Strong ]
[ But Never Underestimate The Under Current ]
[ You Could Never Be So Wrong ]
[ Turning Your Back On The Waves Is Not Very Wise ]
[ Many People Every Year ]
[ Ever Have The Time Or Ability To Say Their Goodbyes ]
[ Waves Can Be As Dangerous As They Are Beautiful ]
[ They Can Look So Safe & Wonderful ]
[ When You Fail To Give The Ocean The Proper Respect ]
[ You Might Get ]
[ What You Least Expect ]
[ But Come Nightfall ]
[ It Seems Like The Water Goes Calm ]
[ Like Mother Nature Made A Call ]
[ & Asked God To Quiet The Water With A Wave Of His Palm ]
[ When It Is Time To Settle In For The Night ]
[ I Can’t Wait For The Morning Light ]
[ So I Can Go Out On My Balcony & View That Beautiful Sight ]
[ So There I Go Again ]
[ Wondering Where The Waves Begin ]
[ While Having The Ability To Watch Where They End ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(838)▪︎[ Chase It … 10•1•2020 ]
[ Never Be Afraid To Follow Your Dream ]
[ It Could Be Scooping Ice Cream ]
[ Or Playing The Music That Makes Kids Scream ]
[ Politics ]
[ Or Sports ]
[ You Can Also Pick ]
[ Being An Attorney & Defending People In Courts ]
[ How Do You Follow A Dream That Is Only In Your Head? ]
[ The Dream That Only Comes ]
[ When You Are Asleep In Your Bed? ]
[ Are You Afraid That In Real Life It Would Be Unattainable? ]
[ Not Sustainable? ]
[ Or Just Not Able ]
[ To Go Forth ]
[ & Your Dream Dips South ]
[ Instead Of Going Up North ]
[ Does Everything You Have On This Earth ]
[ Prove Or Show Your Worth? ]
[ Dreams May Never Be Completed ]
[ That Does Not Mean You Are Defeated ]
[ Find A Different Path ]
[ Study Psychology ]
[ Philosophy ]
[ Instead Of Math ]
[ Maybe Follow The Bread Crumbs Left By Someone
Before You ]
[ Find Out Why & Where They Stopped ]
[ Then Take It To Places That They Never Knew ]
[ Just Because Someone Came Before You Doesn’t Mean
Things Are Finished ]
[ Go To New Heights That Were Never Wished ]
[ On Before You Arrived ]
[ Show Your Drive ]
[ Keep The Dream Alive ]
[ Rarely Has Anyone Completed Their Journey On Their
First Try ]
[ If You Come Upon Someone Who Says That They Never
Failed ]
[ Then You Have Met Someone Who Tells Lies ]
[ For A Living ]
[ Because That Is What They Are Giving ]
[ Don’t Be A Taker ]
[ Of The Lies From A Faker ]
[ Find Your Path & Head Straight Forward ]
[ See The Dream That You Are Headed Towards ]
[ Don’t Get Too Discouraged Along The Way ]
[ Because Every Sun Rising ]
[ Means It Is A Whole Different Day ]
[ & Then You Might Find It Surprising ]
[ That Your Dream … Has Not Disappeared ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(393)▪︎[ A Sad Boy … 5•8•2021 ]
[ This Is For That One, Sad Boy ]
[ Living Lonely, Without Any Toys ]
[ When You Go To Your Closet, For Some Fun ]
[ You Don’t Find, A Single One ]
[ They Were Taken From You, About Two Years Ago ]
[ For Reasons That You Still, Don’t Know ]
[ One Day They Were Here & The Next Day They Were Gone ]
[ You Don’t Remember What You Did, That Was So Wrong ]
[ To Have Them Taken, When You Were Not There ]
[ & If You Were Asked, You Would Gladly Share ]
[ That Day, Plays Through Your Mind ]
[ Time, After Time ]
[ You Went Down The Street, To The Park ]
[ To Play With Your Friends ]
[ & Then, You Made It Home, Before Dark ]
[ Do You Go To Your Mom Or Dad & Ask ( WHY? ) ]
[ Is It Even, Worth Another Try? ]
[ You Still Have Welts ]
[ From The Last Time, That Your Dad Got Mad & Used His Belt ]
[ You Never Thought ]
[ That He Was Ever, Going To Stop ]
[ All Because, You Drank A Pop ]
[ Without Your Dad’s Permission ]
[ & After Your Admission ]
[ Were The Toys Being Taken Because Of That? ]
[ Being Taken Because Of That One Bad Act? ]
[ Or Was It Because Of The Bank, That You & Your Four
Friends Robbed Over Two Years Ago, Last May ]
[ Your Little Group Of Friends, Just Wanted To Get Paid ]
[ You All Got The Cash ]
[ By Going In & Out, Really Fast ]
[ But Then Your Dad, Caught A View ]
[ Of That Evenings News ]
[ After Stashing Some In The Floor & In A Crawl Space, In The
Hall ]
[ Your Dad Said That He Wanted It All ]
[ Or He Would Make A Call ]
[ So We Had To Give It To Him ]
[ But We Kept What I Bundled Up & Hid In The Wall ]
[ He Had No Clue ]
[ & Neither Did You ]
[ Know That The Story Would Twist ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(813)▪︎[ The Scare … 9•23•2020 ]
[ Today I Had Quite The Scare ]
[ When My Family & I Were Walking Across The Parking Lot ]
[ I Almost Got Hit By A Car ]
[ Because The Driver Did Not Seem Aware ]
[ That I Was There ]
[ The Car Jolted To A Stop Less Than An Inch ]
[ Away ]
[ That Really Made Me Flinch ]
[ I’d Say ]
[ He Almost Got Me With His Hood ]
[ & That Would Not Have Felt Good ]
[ We Got In A Really Bad Accident Several Years Ago ]
[ When That Driver Hit Us, Time Went By So Slow ]
[ He Totaled Our SUV From Door To Door ]
[ But This Near Miss Scared Me More ]
[ I’m No Macho Man That Says ( I WASN’t SCARED ) ]
[ & Walked Across That Parking Lot Because I Was Dared ]
[ The Driver Was Much Older Than I ]
[ Yes He Was That Old ]
[ I Tell You No Lie ]
[ It Was Dusk So I Guess I Could Have Been Hard To See ]
[ & I Guess To Some People ]
[ I’m Barely Taller Than Their Knees ]
[ I Yelled ( STOP ) Because He Did Not @ The Stop Sign ]
[ He Did Not Slow Down @ The Marked White Line ]
[ I Felt Rattled & Shaken, That I Am Sure Of ]
[ But I’m Glad It Was Me ]
[ & Not Someone That I Love ]
[ The Man Rolled Down His Window & Talked With My Wife ]
[ I Kept Walking Because My Head Felt Light ]
[ For The First Time In My Life ]
[ My Balance Did Not Feel Quite Right ]
[ No, My Life Did Not Flash Before My Very Eyes ]
[ That Would Had Been Quite The Surprise ]
[ Maybe This Will Help Me Be An Earlier Riser ]
[ I Only Wish That It Would Make Me Be More Humorous & Wiser ]
[ Now I Am By No Means A Religious Person Like Others
Can Be ]
[ But This Kind Of Helps Me See ]
[ That Maybe GOD Is Not Done With Me ]
[ I Want To Live More ]
[ I Want To Give More ]
[ I Want To Laugh More ]
[ & I Want To Love More ]
[ The Older I Get ]
[ The More I Cherish The People That I’ve Met ]
[ So There Must Be A Good Reason I Bet ]
[ That I’m Not Done Here Yet ]
[ To My Friends & Loved One’s I Cherish You ]
[ Because I Thank You ]
[ For Being You ]
[ Have A Good Night ]
[ & Always Fight The Good Fight ]
[ This Is How I Think & Feel ]
[ Because This Was Very Much On The Spot Real ]
[ After Having That Scared Elderly Man ]
[ Behind That Wheel ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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