[ When You Say ( WHAT IF ) Is That Always A Wish? ]
[ Are There Alot Of ( WHAT IF’s ] On Your List? ]
[ What If You Took 1 Step Towards Your Goal? ]
[ What If You Completed 1? ]
[ Wouldn’t That Warm Your Soul? ]
[ All It Takes Is Effort ]
[ What Would That Affect? ]
[ It Shouldn’t Upset Your Way Of Doing Things During
Your Day ]
[ Does It Cause Your Equilibrium To Sway? ]
[ Try To Get Things Under Control ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(992)▪︎[ What? … 11•29•2020 ]
[ Have You Ever Had One Of Those Days When Nothing
Made Sense? ]
[ & When You Go Into The Backyard ]
[ You Notice That There Are Two Tents? ]
[ Then You Felt Like Such A Goof ]
[ When You Stumbled Off Of The Roof ]
[ & Broke Your Last Tooth? ]
[ What Do You Do Now With A Crooked Smile? ]
[ When All That You Wanted To Do ]
[ Was Swim In The Long River Of Denial ]
[ Swim, Swim Until You Reach The Dry Land ]
[ Was This Wish A Want? ]
[ Or A Demand? ]
[ Grass Clippings In The Dishwasher, Shampoo In The
Sink ]
[ How Your Journey Has Come To This Point ]
[ Has You Ice Skating On The Roller Rink ]
[ Where Do You Go From Here? ]
[ As You Cough Up Another Tear ]
[ Your Steak Does Not Taste Quite Right ]
[ When You Sneeze In Your Beer ]
[ When The Sun Rises In The West ]
[ Does It Help You Grow Hair On Your Chest? ]
[ Or Do You Go To The Grocery Store, Looking For Ice
Cream That Is Good, Better, Best? ]
[ When You Turn On The Light, Does That Help You Sleep? ]
[ Or Do You Stand In The Shallow End Of The Pool ]
[ & Only Splash Water When It’s Deep? ]
[ Life Is Really Confusing When You Open Your Ears ]
[ When You Fall Out Of Bed In The Afternoon ]
[ Do You See The Thunderous Cheers? ]
[ A Snake On The Floor, Beats A Bird In The Hand ]
[ Will Anyone Feel It ]
[ When You Give That Command? ]
[ Nothing Makes Sense As Long As Your Knee ]
[ Life Is Really Confusing, When Your Eyes Yell That
They Cannot Grow A Tree ]
[ Ice Cream, Ice Cream Is Always Cold On The Brain ]
[ Sometimes When You Eat It So Fast ]
[ It Feels Like You Are Swimming On A Train ]
[ Around & Around The Eyeballs Go ]
[ When Will The Stop Light Turn Yellow ]
[ You Will Never Know ]
[ Life Gets So Confusing When You Have To Say The
Alphabet Backwards, In Numerical Order ]
[ Anybody Up For Burger King ]
[ As You Run For The Border? ]
[ A Taco From Baskin Robbins Sure Sounds Good Right
Now ]
[ But Since You Don’t Have A Car To Walk With ]
[ You Really Won’t Know How ]
[ You Can Pick Up The Order That You Sent In Long
Before Yesterday ]
[ You’ve Been Meaning To Get It ]
[ Since The 10th Of May ]
[ Life Sure Does Get Confusing The Younger You Get ]
[ You Are Sure Glad That You Have Known You ]
[ Ever Since We Met ]
[ Make Sure You Don’t Break When You Only Mean To
Bend ]
[ So Now There Is No Need To Start Over ]
[ Once You’ve Started @ The End ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(993)▪︎[ No Fair Weathered Friends … 11•29•2020 ]
[ I Am So So Tired Of Fair Weather People Taking Up
My Time ]
[ I’m Tired Of Their Names ]
[ Running Around In My Mind ]
[ Why Do I Pay Them Any Thought? ]
[ The Thought Of These People ]
[ Should Be Really Thankful For What They’ve Got ]
[ These People Should Ring That Magic Bell ]
[ When They Pull Up A Chair ]
[ To The Whiskey Bar In Hell ]
[ Fair Weather People Can Be All Types ]
[ Just Look Out For The Ones That Are All Hype ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(998)▪︎[ Thoughts … 11•30•2020 ]
[ My Thoughts Continue To Swirl ]
[ Some Just Hang Like A Gerry Curl ]
[ Old Fashioned & Out Of Date ]
[ Some Just Sit Still & Gain Some Weight ]
[ Some Are Bright ]
[ & Used That Day ]
[ Some Sound Just Right ]
[ & Are Used Right Away ]
[ But Day In & Day Out ]
[ Am I Still Writing Good Enough Stories ]
[ To Shout ]
[ About? ]
[ What I Write It’s The Only Draft ]
[ I’ve Pushed Away From The Lonely Island ]
[ & Sent Adrift On My One Man Raft ]
[ My Thoughts Are Like The Current & Could Take Me Any
Which Way ]
[ Will It Take Me A Week? ]
[ Or Will I Be Done On The Very First Day? ]
[ I Wish I Had The Great Skill & Power ]
[ To Be Able To Write A Really Good Story ]
[ In Under An Hour ]
[ Practice Makes Perfect Is One Thing That People Have
Said To Me ]
[ Hmmm … Could That Be? ]
[ Whenever I Start A Story I Will Have To See ]
[ (PLEASE BE PATIENT) Is What I Say To Everyone ]
[ Because When It Stops Being Fun ]
[ I Tend To Run ]
[ While Saying ( I AM DONE! ) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(967)▪︎[ It Is All A … ? … 11•19•2020 ]
[ Around Every Corner I Hit A Brick Wall ]
[ Sometimes I Don’t Even Have The Energy
To Take A Call ]
[ A Call From Whom Is The Big Mystery ]
[ It Will Be A Total Guess ]
[ If You Look @ My History ]
[ Everybody Says (I’ll NEVER LEAVE) But They Do ]
[ Now My Best Friend Might Be Leaving Too ]
[ I Know That I Should Have Expected It From
The Start ]
[ & Now We Will Be Apart ]
[ She Wants To Move Back, So She Should ]
[ With Nothing To Tie Her To Oregon, She Could ]
[ If I Wish She Wouldn’t ]
[ She Still Would ]
[ I Don’t Want Her Heart Break When She Has To Come
Back To This State ]
[ Maybe When She Moves Back To Texas ]
[ She Will Find Someone Great ]
[ Texas Has The Type Of Men That She Has Always
Been Looking For ]
[ Afterall, She Is A Texas Girl, Right Down To Her Core ]
[ My Heart Is Breaking & My Head Hurts ]
[ My Thoughts Feel Like They Are Being Dragged
Through The Dirt ]
[ I Talk, But Nobody Hears ]
[ Then I Squint My Eyes ]
[ As My Glare Throws Spears ]
[ Does Anyone EVER Hear Me? ]
[ Is The Sound Of My Voice ]
[ Like The Hum Of A Bumble Bee ]
[ A Sound That Annoys? ]
[ A Sound To Avoid? ]
[ It Sure Seems Like That! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(005)▪︎[ The Yin & The Yang … 1•2•2022 ]
[ Learn. Fail. Learn. Fail. Learn More ]
[ Be More Flexible Than A Board ]
[ The (LEARN/FAIL) Combination Should Happen Throughout
Your Life ]
[ With The Exception Of Picking A Husband Or Wife ]
[ You Don’t Want To Have A Spinning Door When It Would Come
To Picking A Spouse ]
[ Then Having A Good Cat To Chase Down That Lone Mouse ]
[ All Through Life You Should Be Learning ]
[ The Desire Should Always Be Burning ]
[ You Have Never Met The Guy ]
[ That Is As Good As It Gets ]
[ On The First Try ]
[ But You Have To Make It Known ]
[ It Is Not Easy To Write A Poem ]
[ It Takes Quite A Long Time ]
[ To Write A Story That Will Rhyme ]
[ Even Having A Family There Are Times Of (LEARN/FAIL) ]
[ But It Might Be Too Late If Your Child Is Headed To Jail ]
[ But Jail/Prison Has Their Own Set Of Rules ]
[ Those People Never Used All Of Their Tools ]
[ They Should Have Learned While Growing Up ]
[ Some People Never Filled Up Their Learning Cup ]
[ Learning & Failing Is All About Growing ]
[ But You Should Never Think That You Are All-Knowing ]
[ They Say That To Be Tough Is To Fragile ]
[ To Be Tender Is To Be Truly Fierce ]
[ With Most Things In Life, Learning Is Gradual ]
[ Would That Be The Yin & The Yang Of The Universe? ]
[ Either Do Or Succumb To This Way ]
[ Or Things Could Get Alot Worse? ]
[ Fragile, Is The Opposite Of Tough ]
[ The Opposite Of Smooth, Is Rough ]
[ You Must Know (1), To Know The Other ]
[ Sometimes You Have To Go Through The Discipline Of The
Father ]
[ To Truly Appreciate The Comfort Given To You By The Mother ]
[ Fail/Learn, Fail/Learn ]
[ Sometimes The Whole Lesson Is A Serious Burn ]
[ Or Gives You Something To Yearn ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]
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(501)▪︎[ Torturing The Caregiver … 8•1•2022 ]
[ The Voice From The Other Room Was Faint To The Ear ]
[ What It Softly Said ]
[ Was Not Clear ]
[ The Voice Was Calm ]
[ As It Cried Out For Its Mom ]
[ I Could Not Tell If It Was A Young Girl Or Boy ]
[ It Almost Sounded Like It Was Coming From A Toy ]
[ I Played The Scenario Again & Again In My Head ]
[ I Wondered If It Came From A Small Animal Instead ]
[ All Of A Sudden It Seemed Like Something Sucked All Of The
Air Out Of The Room ]
[ The Drop In The Temperature ]
[ Made It Feel Like We Were Sitting In An Old Mummy’s Tomb ]
[ There Seemed To Be A Big Problem ]
[ Because The Floor Boards Would Creak ]
[ When They Did Not Have Anything Walking Across Them ]
[ The Windows Had Frosted Over Days Ago ]
[ It Happened So Slow ]
[ It Normally Would Not Show ]
[ There Are Cracks In Some Windows That I Did Not Notice The
Other Day ]
[ Nobody Knew Anything ]
[ Nobody Would Say ]
[ Even Though My Caregiver Would Sweep Everyday, There
Always Seemed To Be Dust Everywhere ]
[ The Dust Was Swept Up Yesterday ]
[ I Swear ]
[ The Wind Comes In Through The Cracks ]
[ In The Wood ]
[ When It Chills Our Backs ]
[ That Does Not Feel Very Good ]
[ In The Middle Of The Night, I Hear Noises That Cannot Be
Explained ]
[ I Have Found, From Past Experiences, That It Does No Good To
Complain ]
[ The Dark Night ]
[ Plays With My Sight ]
[ Because When It Is Completely Black Outside ]
[ I See Flashes Of Light ]
[ Sometimes My Brain Feels Lost ]
[ The T.V. Flickers ]
[ Long After The Power Was Turned Off ]
[ Voices Whisp Around The Room Like They Are Riding On The
Wind ]
[ Should This Story End ]
[ Like It Begins? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ,]
[ A hui hou ,]
[ Aloha ,]
[ Na ,]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ,] [酪]
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(053)▪︎[ Glad It’s Over … 1•18•2022 ]
[ Year 2021 Was Not Very Fun ]
[ It Was So Bad ]
[ By The End Of February, You Were Already Done ]
[ That Is When You Tested Positive For The ‘VID ]
[ You Had No Idea What You Did ]
[ The Only Times That You Did Not Wear A Mask Was In
Your House ]
[ Thankfully, It Never Got To Your Spouse ]
[ You Had Thoracic Surgery On (3) Parts Of Your Spine ]
[ & Your Lower Back Is Still Not Aligned ]
[ This Year , You Woke Up To Celebrate Your 25th Anniversary
While On A Hospital Bed ]
[ What A Great Place To Wake Up To Celebrate How Many Years
That You Have Been Wed ]
[ Your Longtime Caregiver Up & Quit ]
[ Because Of A Bunch Of Miscommunication & Misunderstanding
Shit ]
[ This Event Really Took You By Surprise ]
[ But Then You Found Out ]
[ That For Months She Had Been Telling You A Bunch Of Lies ]
[ She Had Her Resumé Out There For Awhile It Seemed ]
[ Because She Said That She Had It Out There With (INDEED) ]
[ So You Had To Finish Off Of The Year Without (1) ]
[ That Sure Hurt A Ton ]
[ The Best Part Of The Ending Year ]
[ You Were Able To Start 2022 With The Person Who Is Most
Near & Dear ]
[ You Were Alone Way Too Much ]
[ There Were Chunks Of Time When You Did Not ]
[ Have The Comfort Of Talking To Anyone About Such -n- Such ]
[ Too Much Alone Time ]
[ But You Were Able To Write Over (1,000) Stories That Rhymed ]
[ It Started With A Whimper ]
[ & Ended With A Bang ]
[ Not A Whisper ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(058)▪︎[ Hard To Refrain! … 1•19•2022 ]
[ When Someone Judges A Person Considering Suicide, Who
Has Never Walked The Life Or Death Line ]
[ Has No Place To Whine ]
[ The Suicidal Person Does Not Think That It Is The Most
Selfish Act ]
[ It Is The Other Way Around, In Fact ]
[ He Feels That The Act Will Free Those He Feels He Is Weighing
Down ]
[ The Issue Is Neither Black Or White ]
[ It Is More Like Brown ]
[ He Feels He Is A Financial Burden Or Drain ]
[ His Thoughts Are Going As Fast As A Runaway Train ]
[ There Are No Frequent Stops ]
[ There Are No Postal Drops ]
[ His Thinking Has Become Completely Hyper Focused On What
He Feels That He Must Do ]
[ He Tries Not To Give Off Any Social Cue ]
[ Or Leave A Clue ]
[ Nothing Until He Would Be Found ]
[ Either Swinging From A Rope ]
[ Or Laying On The Ground ]
[ In His Mind It Is A (FREEING ACT) Times Two ]
[ It Was Never A Selfish Act To Do ]
[ If He Is Not Working, He Might Feel Like Others Think That He
Is A Bum ]
[ His Guilt Is Something That He Never Could Outrun ]
[ Others Will Have More Money If They Did Not Have His
Mouth To Feed ]
[ (2) Different Times He Never Got Any Hits On His Resume
When He Used (INDEED) ]
[ Not A Single Bite On His Resumé After Having It Out There
For More Than ½ A Year ]
[ When He Got Let Go Because Of The ‘VID19 ]
[ This Was Something He Feared ]
[ He Thought That He Had A Career That He Could Retire From ]
[ Then The ‘VID19 Happened ]
[ So He Does Not Have One ]
[ One Time When He Was Omitted Into A Hospital, He Learned So
Much More About His Suicidal Triggers From The Others ]
[ Than He Could Have From The Dr’s ]
[ & People’s Mothers ]
[ They Should Have More Groups With Open Discussions Than
They Had ]
[ & That Was Bad ]
[ So Much About A Suicider’s Brain Is Misunderstood ]
[ That Does Not Do Anybody Any Good ]
[ He Just Wants To Release His Physical/Mental Pain ]
[ That Won’t Go Away ]
[ It Is So Hard To Refrain ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]
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(973)▪︎[ How Do You? … 11•21•2020 ]
[ Do You Survive? ]
[ Revive? ]
[ Or Have You Finally Arrived? ]
[ Can You Jot Down All That Makes You Smile ]
[ Or All That caused You To Frown ]
[ For Awhile? ]
[ Can You Talk To A Coach For A Minute Or Two? ]
[ When You Can Talk About Nothing But You? ]
[ If You Lose Too Fast ]
[ Will The Loss Last? ]
[ Do You Know Your Role? ]
[ In Your Quest To Reach Your Goal? ]
[ What Do You Want To Accomplish For The Rest
Of The Year? ]
[ Are You Foggy ]
[ Are You Clear? ]
[ Do You Feel Foggy ]
[ When Confronted By A Fear? ]
[ But Do You Feel Trapped? ]
[ When The Topic Is About (THE APP?) ]
[ You Must Be Active ]
[ Or Proactive ]
[ Stay Away From Always Being Reactive ]
[ Is Your Goal Star Worthy? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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