(361)▪︎[ Once In A Lifetime? … 2026 ]

[ They Say That You Only Find Love Once In A Lifetime ]
[ Oh, If You Only Had A Dime ]
[ Each Time That Was Said ]
[ That Means There Would Only Be One Event That Would Be Sublime ]
[ Going Off In Your Head? ]


[ That Would Be A Disturbing Statement, If That’s True ]
[ Once A Marriage Doesn’t Follow All The Way Through ]
[ How Does A Man That Has A Big Heart ]
[ Such As You ]
[ Not Fall Apart? ]

[ You Thought You Found True Love Over (31yrs) Ago ]
[ Well Now You Know ]
[ That She Did Not Feel The Same Way, Also ]

[ Now That You Are Losing Your Best Friend, Confidant, & Lover ]
[ Do You Stay In Bed Underneath Your Cover’s ]
[ Or Walk Out Of The House Holding Your Head High ]
[ & Happily Start Over? ]

[ That Sounds Like A Great Idea ]
[ Get A New Place To Live ]
[ Then Furnish It With Things From IKEA ]

[ So Go Get Such & Such ]
[ Keep Everything That You Love Very Much ]

[ Start By Packing A Lunch ]
[ Get A New Place That Packs A Punch ]

[ You Have Started Over Before ]
[ Just Not Like This ]
[ Now When Go Through The Front Door ]
[ You Will Have A Brand-New ‘To-Do List’ ]

[ The World Is Wide Open Right Before Your Very Eyes ]
[ You Are Tired Of All The Past Lies ]
[ You Want A Woman Who Does Not Chase After Other Guys ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(174)▪︎[ The Fun Is Gone … 2026 ]

[ Do You Really Deserve The Kind Of Life That You Have ]
[ When You Are In A Stressful Moment ]
[ Are You Able To Cut The Stress In ½ ]
[ When You Attempt To Make People Laugh? ]


[ Life Can Overwhelm Anyone Out Of Nowhere ]
[ Things Can Happen Here ]
[ Or Over There ]
[ Without It Being Clear ]
[ That Anyone Cares ]


[ Whenever You Walk Out Your Front Door ]
[ You Feel That You Must Prepare Your Core ]
[ For Some People’s Behavior ]
[ That Comes Across Really Poor ]
[ Do You Feel Like You Must Look Towards The Sky For Some Kind Of Favor? ]
[ Because You Don’t Want To Deal With The Crap Anymore! ]


[ Where Will It Stop? ]
[ Maybe When All Hope Is Lost ]
[ If Everything Drops ]
[ What Will Be The Final Cost? ]

[ Will There Be A Final One ]
[ When All Is Said & Done? ]
[ When There Is No More Fun ]
[ Do You Want To Pack-Up Everything & Take Off & Run? ]

[ That Sounds Like A Great & Inspiring Idea Most Days ]
[ In Your Younger Years ]
[ You Could Feel Better By Going Outside & Catching Some Sunshine Rays ]
[ How Do You Get The Fun To Stay? ]

[ You Guess You Can’t ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(248)▪︎[ The Gender Conundrum … 2026 ]

[ Are Males & Females Really Programmed To Get Along? ]
[ So Much Goes Wrong ]
[ When The Signal Between The (2) Genders Does Not Come Across Very Strong ]

[ Women Seem To Be From Venus ]
[ So We Must Conclude That Men Are From Mars ]
[ When There Needs To Be Information Passed Between Us ]
[ It’s Like Motorcycles Trying To Understand Cars ]

[ One Is One Thing, While One Thing Is Another ]
[ They Could Be Raised In The Same Home ]
[ They Could Be Raised By The Same Father & Mother ]

[ When, Where Or How ]
[ Do Things Go Awry ]
[ It Could Be Now ]
[ But Nobody Can Understand The “Why?” ]

[ Are Men The Only Gender ]
[ That Lashes Out In Anger? ]
[ The Answer To That Can Also Get Confused With Which Is The More Tender ]

[ The Answer To Both Questions Remains Floating Up In The Air ]
[ It Can Get As Confusing As Who Has The Longest Hair ]
[ Go Ahead & Answer The (2) Questions That You Asked Right There ]

[ There Seems To Be Alot Of Physical & Emotional Traits That Is Being Shared ]
[ There Doesn’t Seem To Be Any Individuals Being Spared ]

[ Men Can Oftentimes Be Physically Stronger Then Most Women ]
[ Most Women Can Oftentimes Be More Emotional Than Most Men ]
[ But Then ]

[ That It Does Not Seem Right ]
[ To Always ]
[ Or Completely Use These Kinds Of Stereotypes ]

[ The Main Thing Must Be Understood ]
[ Is Deep Deep Down ]
[ Both Genders Are Good ]

[ Stereotypes Can Be Damning ]
[ & Alarming ]
[ It Is Your Understanding ]
[ That Both Genders Can Also Be Quite Charming ]

[ Nobody Understands ]
[ When One Side Of A Couple ]
[ Always Makes Demands ]

[ Just Know ]
[ That The Understanding Part Might Come About @ A Really Slow ]

[ Pace ]
[ So Give Each Other Some Grace ]
[ Without Getting Into Each Other’s Face ]

[ Because Hostility Does Not Solve Anything ]
[ Rejoice When You See ]
[ What The Other Gender Can Bring ]

[ To The Table ]
[ When They Are Capable ]
[ When They Are Able ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

Aloha

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(360)▪︎[ Judgemental People … 2026 ]

[ When Someone Tells You, “You Know Better Than That” ]
[ It Can Feel Like You Have Been Hit Upside Your Head With A Baseball Bat ]
[ People Will Always Remind You That, “You Don’t Have The (9) Lives Of A Cat” ]
[ & You Will Always Be Nagged About Your Eating ]
[ No Matter How Skinny Or How Fat ]
[ When The Family Is Settled Down For A Good Feeding ]

[ You Know Better Than That Is Like Someone Saying, “I Told You So!” ]
[ As If Something Happened That You Should Have Known ]
[ Or You Could Have Changed The Trajectory Of The Incident ]
[ If You Would Have Given A Simple, “No!” ]

[ If You Knew Better Don’t They Think That You Would Have Used Your Voice ]
[ To Make Another Choice? ]

[ Some People Do Not Ever Think That Far Ahead ]
[ Choosing To Judge Others Instead ]
[ Some People Start Judging Others The Minute They Get Out Of Bed ]
[ & They Will Continue Until They Are Dead ]

[ For Some, Judging Is Nothing Short Of A Hobby ]
[ These People Can Get So Entitled & Snobby ]

[ They Drink & Drink ]
[ & Think ]
[ That Their Shit Does Not Give Off Any Stink ]

[ Because Their Arguments Are Not Very Strong ]
[ It Doesn’t Take Other People Very Long ]
[ To Prove That The Judgemental People Are Wrong ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

Aloha

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(353)▪︎[ What A Strange Diet … 2024 ]

[ You Wish, That You Would Not Always See A Frown ]
[ Maybe A Big Thumbs Up & A Smile ]
[ Okay, Or A Thumbs Down ]
[ Could You Get Some Kind Of Emotion, That Would Satisfy You, For Awhile? ]

   
[ A Thumbs Down, Would Still Be, An Emotional Form ]
[ It Does Leave Your Heart ]
[ A Tiny Bit Warm ]
[ You Hope That It Is Not That Kind Of Conversation That Will Start ]

[ There Could Be Alot Of Conversation Between A  Thumbs Down Or A Thumbs Up ]
[ There Is A Big Difference Between A Plate & A Cup ]

[ The Cup Could Hold Hot Chocolate With (6) Small Marshmallows ]
[ A Plate Could Hold Breakfast Or Dinner ]
[ A Cup Could Be Deep Or Shallow ]
[ A Plate Could Be Thick Or Thinner ]

[ It All Depends On The Style ]
[ Or The Brand ]
[ A Meal Might Take Awhile ]
[ To Make If It Is All It, Is Not Poured Out Of A Can ]

[ Cold ]
[ Or Hot ]
[ Is Your Food Old ]
[ Or Not ]
[ Are The Flavors Bland Or Bold ]
[ It All Matters With What You’ve Got ]

[ Some People That Have All Of The Money ]
[ Only Allow Themselves To Eat ]
[ Stale Bread With Honey ]
[ But No Meat ]

[ That Is When Door-Dash Comes To The Rescue ]
[ But Not Everything ]
[ Is On The Door-Dash Menu ]

[ Most Restaurants In Salem Have Their Menu Available That You Could Order From ]
[ There Are Still A Few That Don’t ]
[ From A Financial Point Of View, You Would Have To Say (THAT IS PRETTY DUMB) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

Aloha

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(043)▪︎[ What Was Her Name? … 2026 ]

[ You Loved Her, Long Before You Knew Her Name ]
[ You Knew That Once You Met The Woman Of Your Dreams ]
[ Things Would Never Be The Same ]
[ Sometimes It Seems ]
[ Like Love Can Be One Big Blame Game ]

[ One Thing That Can Drive You So Insane ]
[ Is How Do You Anticipate ]
[ The Inevitable Emotional Pain ]
[ The Kind That Does Not Discriminate ]
[ But Still, It Is The Kind That You Disdain ]

[ Emotional Pain Hurts Clear Down To The Last Letter ]
[ When The Pain Is Physical ]
[ You Can Put A Band-Aid On The Pain & You Feel So Much Better ]
[ & It’s Visible ]

[ Some Part Of You Felt Different During Your Walk ]
[ In The Park ]
[ Most People Would Have Balked ]
[ Because The Night Sky Was So Dark ]
[ But Were You Looking To Talk? ]

[ Did Mother Nature Have Something Brewing? ]
[ Was There A Storm Ensuing ]

[ Would It Have Been Assuming ]
[ If You Thought That This Storm Would Be All Consuming? ]

[ Raining Dogs & Cats ]
[ When You & Your Dog Were Out Walking ]
[ You Noticed That No One Was Wearing Any Rain Hats ]
[ While Groups Huddled Together & Were Talking ]

[ Would They Be Singing The Blues ]
[ If It Started Raining So Hard ]
[ The Water Started Getting Into Their Shoes ]
[ All Because No One Paid Attention To The Weather Forecast ]
[ During Last Night’s Local News? ]

[ You Said, “Hello” As You Walked By The First Group, Even Though A Few Of Them Were Attached To Their Phone ]
[ Then It Started Pouring ]
[ That Was When You Noticed A Woman Standing All Alone ]

[ She Was Standing Under A Cover Beneath A Tall Pole With A Light ]
[ When She Looked Your Way ]
[ Her Deep Crystal Blue Eyes, Were Quite ]
[ The Sight ]

[ You Smiled @ Her & Something Quietly Came Undone ]
[ Was It The War Inside Your Chest That You’ve Never Won ]
[ If You Walked Up, & Said, “Hello” ]
[ Would She Take Off & Run? ]
[ You Walked Towards Her, Kind Of Slow ]
[ What If She Had A Gun? ]
[ You Took A Chance, Because You Did Not Know ]

[ When You Calmly Began To Talk, Her Blue Eyes Began To Fill With  Tears ]
[ You Could Not Figure Out How A Woman That Was So Young ]
[ Could Have So Many Long Lasting Fears ]

[ You (2) Had Only Just Met ]
[ You Failed To Understand ]
[ What She Thought That She Would Get ]
[ Could This Be A Demand ]
[ Of Some Upcoming Debt? ]

[ You Used All Of Your Willpower ]
[ To Stand & Listen To Her ]
[ For Over An Hour ]

[ But How Would This Conversation End? ]
[ Were You Saying Anything That You Would Later Need To Defend? ]

[ You Wanted To Play This Cool ]
[ There Was A Tearful Woman Standing Directly In Front Of You ]
[ You Did Not Want To Add Any Fuel ]
[ Or Drop Some Kind Of Clue ]
[ That You Had No Idea What To Do? ]

[ You Knew What Would Cause The Tension To Be Cut In ½ ]
[ If Only You Could Say Something ]
[ To Get Her To Laugh ]
[ About Anything ]

[ Inconsequential ]
[ Nothing Absurd Or Delusional ]
[ It Could Even Be Something Questionable ]

[ But Nothing Rude ]
[ Or Lewd ]
[ You Live In A Society That Is So Litigious ]
[ You Don’t Want To Ever Get Sued ]
[ Suing People Can Get Contagious ]
[ When It Is A “He Said, She Said” Situation, The Man Always Gets Screwed! ]

[ That Was When You Learned That Her Laughter Became Your New Favorite Song ]
[ She Thought Her Laugh Was Kind Of Corny ]
[ You Never Thought You Heard Anything Wrong ]
[ Unless You Were Hearing Her Poorly ]

[ As The Rain Kept Coming ]
[ You Stayed To Listen To Her ]
[ Should You Take Off Running? ]
[ You Seemed So Unsure ]

[ But Then Your Back Started To Cramp ]
[ You Both Took The Conversation To The Bench ]
[ Under The Street Lamp ]

[ Her Voice Was So Easy On Your Ears ]
[ She Was Talking About Some Of Her Fears ]
[ You Wished You Could Help Her With Her Tears ]

[ You Sat There & Talked For Hours ]
[ You Even Outlasted The Rain Showers ]

[ It Was No Surprise ]
[ That You Talked Long Enough To See The Sun Start To Rise ]

[ You Have Not Had This Long Of A Talk With A Stranger, Ever ]
[ When We Got Up To Part Ways, She Asked, “Will You Forget About Me?” ]
[ You Looked Her In The Eyes & Said, “Never!” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(435)▪︎[ Oh, That Silly Humpty … 2024 ]

[ While Humpty Dumpty, Was Sitting On A Wall Of Brick ]
[ He Said That His Shell Would Not Break, If He Were To Fall ]
[ Because His Shell Was Way Too Thick ]
[ But When He Fell & Was Wrong, He Couldn’t Come Up With A Number To Call ]

[ So As His Egg Was Slowly Spilling Out Into The Street ]
[ He Thought That He Was Kind Of Hungry ]
[ But He Couldn’t Think Of A Single Place To Eat ]

[ He Thought That If He Could Only Make It To His Car ]
[ He Knew Of A Place That Served Great Food ]
[ Once He Made It To The Bar ]
[ Would The Large Crack In His Shell Be Misunderstood? ]
[ Well, It Could ]
[ & It Should ]

[ Be ]
[ But What If He Were To Wear ]
[ A Baseball Cap, So Nobody Could See ]
[ The Crack Under There ]
[ Or Really Care ]

[ But It Has Been Made Perfectly Clear ]
[ Nobody Cares About Anybody ]
[ Except The Person That They Always See In Their Mirror ]

[ Not A Child ]
[ Not A Spouse ]
[ The Thinking Is So Skewed & Wild ]
[ People Do Not Care For Anybody In Their House ]

[ The ‘VID’19 Did That To Everyone ]
[ You Were Taught That If A Stranger Got To Be Less Than 6′ From You ]
[ You Needed To Take Off & Run ]
[ Because If A Person Had The ‘VID’19, They Did Not Show A Clue ]
[ Life Is No Fun ]
[ Going Through Your Whole Day, Not Seeing A Single Social Cue ]

[ Emotions Were Hid ]
[ Feelings Were, Too ]
[ That Is Just What You Did ]
[ That Was What Children Were Taught To Do ]
[ Too ]

[ Nobody Would Smile ]
[ All You Could See, Was Their Hollow Eyes ]
[ Nobody Stood & Talked For Awile ]
[ When They Did, It Would All Be A Bunch Of Lies ]

[ You Would Never Disclose That Already ]
[ (11) People Have Died In Your Extended Family ]
[ You Don’t Want Sympathy ]
[ Nobody Does ]
[ You Don’t Want Any Kind Of Empathy ]
[ That Is Said To You, Just Because ]

[ Sometimes That Just Feels Like Someone Is Just Giving You The Dreaded Feeling, Pity ]
[ Sometimes That Can Leave You Feeling Kind Of Shitty ]
[ But When You Are The Only Person Left Standing In The City ]

[ What Do You Do Or Say? ]
[ Today? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

Aloha

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