[ What Does It Mean When They Mention The Winds Of
Fear? ]
[ Does It Blow Through Your Hair? ]
[ Or Whisper Sweet Nothings In Your Ear? ]
[ Fear About What? ]
[ When It Rushes Through Your House ]
[ Does It Make You Want To Keep Your Windows Shut? ]
[ Sometimes A Cool Wind ]
[ Feels Good On The Skin ]
[ But It Does Not Feel Nice ]
[ When The Cool Wind Blows Through Twice ]
[ Making It Feel Like You’re Sitting On Ice ]
[ Then The Shakes & Shivers Start ]
[ & That Plays A Huge Part ]
[ In Your Choice About Where You Stand ]
[ To Make Your Demands ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(814)▪︎[ Today’s Day … 9•24•2020 ]
[ It Is Okay, In Today’s Day & Age ]
[ To Be Anxious, Depressed Or Sad ]
[ Sprinkled With Short Bouts Of Rage ]
[ When You Feel Confused & Lost ]
[ Seek Out A Friend Or Counselor ]
[ No Matter The Cost ]
[ Some People Get So Loud ]
[ Proclaiming That They Are Way Too Proud ]
[ To Problem Share ]
[ Because They Do Not Care ]
[ To Go There ]
[ So They Won’t ]
[ Then They Don’t ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(614)▪︎[ Whatever It Takes … 7•7•2020 ]
[ How Do You Make It Through Each Day? ]
[ In A Stress Free Way? ]
[ Do You Turn To Your Spouse ]
[ When There Is Stress In The House? ]
[ Do You Lay It All Out On The Line? ]
[ When Things Are Not Doing Fine? ]
[ Or Do You Go Inside Your Mind ]
[ When The Words Are Of The Negative Kind? ]
[ Some People See The Need ]
[ To Go Straight Ahead ]
[ & Then See Where That Leads ]
[ Others Fall Back & Wait ]
[ Then Hope ]
[ That It Isn’t Too Late ]
[ To Be Strong ]
[ & Fix Whatever It Is That Has Gone Wrong ]
[ So The Relationship Can Keep Going On ]
[ Before All Is Lost ]
[ & The Love Is Gone ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(610)▪︎[ Thinking … 7•6•2020 ]
[ Can You Tell Me What I Am Thinking ]
[ Without Batting Your Eyelashes? ]
[ Or Blinking? ]
[ I Don’t Think That You Can ]
[ So Far That Hasn’t Been Accomplished ]
[ By Any Woman Or Man ]
[ No One Has Ever Been Trained ]
[ To Be Able To Read My Brain ]
[ Or There Has Never Been The Kind ]
[ Of Person ]
[ That Can Follow Some Of My Minds ]
[ Diversions ]
[ So I’d Be Lying ]
[ If I Told You That I Want Them To Keep Trying ]
[ Even Through Meditation ]
[ This Causes Me So Much Irritation ]
[ & Then I Feel The Need For More Medication ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(313)▪︎[ I Missed It … 3•27•2020 ]
[ When I Watch Where People, Not Teams, Compete ]
[ It Reminds Me Of Previous Years ]
[ When There Were Records That I Beat ]
[ & I’d Hear ]
[ The Crowds Applause ]
[ & Cheer ]
[ There Was Nothing Like The Nerves I’d Get Before I’d
Step Out On That Stage ]
[ I’d Take My Place On The Bench ]
[ & Then Release All Of My Controlled Rage ]
[ Then It’s A Fight ]
[ To Make The Weight On The Bar ]
[ Feel Really Light ]
[ I’d Feel As If I Could Bench Press A Car ]
[ If My Form Was Just Right ]
[ 200lbs, No Problem ]
[ 300lbs, No Problem ]
[ 400lbs, No Problem ]
[ 450lbs, A Bit Of A Problem ]
[ 500lbs, An Insurmountable Problem ]
[ I Really Had To Bare Down & Kick It In Drive ]
[ To Be Able To Bench Press My Best ]
[ & Press 475 ]
[ All The While Competing In The Weight Class Of 165 ]
[ When I Finally Hung Up My Belt & Put It In Park ]
[ I Missed My All-Time Goal ]
[ Of Hitting The 495lb Mark ]
[ Benching Three Times Your Body Weight Is Something That
Lifters Can Rarely Do ]
[ I Was 20lbs Shy ]
[ Maybe If I Had Another Year Or Two ]
[ I Could Be One Of Those Few Guys ]
[ & I’m Sincerely Telling You, You & You ]
[ This Story Has No Lies ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(298)▪︎[ Stay Together … 3•23•2020 ]
[ How Do We, As A Society, Stay Together While Standing Apart? ]
[ How Do You Start ]
[ To Show Love From The Heart ]
[ Without Touch? ]
[ What Is Too Much? ]
[ Human Touch Is So Important To Most Everyone ]
[ Most Everyone Needs The Touch From Someone ]
[ The Touch Of The Hand ]
[ Can ]
[ Bring Together A Woman & Man ]
[ In Such A Way ]
[ That It Can Be Serious ]
[ Or In Play ]
[ Doesn’t This Make You Curious ]
[ Today? ]
[ But If This Is Not Your Thing ]
[ What Do You Have To Bring? ]
[ To The Table ]
[ That Is Not Attached By Strings? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(296)▪︎[ Grieving … 3•23•2020 ]
[ How Does One Grieve? ]
[ Help Me Believe ]
[ That Sometime In The Future I’ll See My Brother Again? ]
[ What If I Sin? ]
[ Does My Brother ]
[ Go One Way ]
[ & I Go The Other? ]
[ Some People Say That Everything Happens For A Reason ]
[ That is One Thing That I Don’t Believe In ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(542)▪︎[ Silly Dani … 8•20•2022 ]
[ Well Ms. Dani, You Have Been In A (COMMITTED RELATIONSHIP)
Now For Over A Year ]
[ The (C-WORD) Used To Be Your Biggest Fear ]
[ You Laughed In The Face Of A Gentleman Suiter Who Actually
Thought He Could Be In A (C-WORD) ]
[ You Laughed & Laughed @ Him ]
[ When You Stopped Laughing, You Told Him (THAT WAS
ONE OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS THAT I’ve EVER HEARD!) ]
[ Laughing @ Him To His Face ]
[ Was Your Non-Verbal Way Of Saying (YOU ARE WAY OFF
BASE) ]
[ You Had Never Been @ A Loss For Words ]
[ That Guys Thnking Was For The Birds ]
[ Dani, Me & Your Friendship Has Never Had Walls ]
[ I Know That If I Would Do Anything To Screw Up My Woderful
Marriage ]
[ You Would Track Me Down & Cut Off My Balls! ]
[ You Were Such The Patient ABC With Our Son ]
[ I Remember Watching Some Of Your Interactions ]
[ It Never Looked Like You Were Having Fun ]
[ You Were Forever So Patient Whenever He Would Foolishly
Get In Your Face ]
[ Whenever I Saw That Train Wreck Happening ]
[ I Would Think (SON … YOU ARE ABOUT TO GET YOUR JAW
DISPLACED!) ]
[ When You Checked In With Me @ The End Of Your Shift ]
[ It Would Always Give Me A Lift ]
[ I Loved The End Of The Week & When You Were So Very Tired ]
[ But I Was Shocked That It Made You So Wired ]
[ I Could Not Believe How Much The Dances Made Me Want
The Disco Era To Come Back ]
[ Energy Was Not Something That You Lacked ]
[ I Really Wanted To Get A Video Of A Dancing Dani ]
[ Maybe (10) Or (15) Minutes ]
[ Freestyle & Nothing Fancy ]
[ When You Left You Really Raised The Bar High ]
[ Whenever A New ABC Would Come In & Be Subpar ]
[ I Would Sit Down & Sigh ]
[ (4) Months Into Your Employment We Figured You Had
Become Irreplaceable ]
[ Everything That You Tried, You Were More Than Able ]
[ Now Roosevelt Takes Up Most Of Your Time ]
[ Now You Have Nellie To Spend All Of Your Dimes ]
[ You Were An Outstanding ABC ]
[ & An Even Better Friend To Me ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(279)▪︎[ It’s Just A Suggestion … 3•19•2020 ]
[ Have You Ever Felt That You Have Neighbors That
Do Not Live Next Door? ]
[ These Are Not The Ones That Live A House Or More ]
[ Down The Street, Though ]
[ No, No, No ]
[ These Are The Ones That Are On Your Mind & In Your Heart ]
[ The Ones That You Never Feel Like You Are Apart ]
[ From Each Other ]
[ Or A Mom, Dad, Sister Or Brother ]
[ Send Them A Message For A Surprise ]
[ It’s Been A While I Surmise ]
[ Am I Right? ]
[ Like Rice Is White? ]
[ Since Most Of Us Are Confined To Our Respective Homes ]
[ That Doesn’t Mean We Have To Be Like Knomes ]
[ Frozen In Time ]
[ Brought To Life By My Rhymes ]
[ Don’t Let Everyday Life Get The Best Of You ]
[ Sending Warm Thoughts Will Only Take A Minute Or Two ]
[ & The Reward For Your Effort? ]
[ It’s The Nice Feeling & Comfort ]
[ That You Get Because You Reached Out ]
[ Getting A Bad Reaction Is Something I Doubt ]
[ Since We Cannot Reach Out & Touch Someone ]
[ Right Now ]
[ Have Some Fun ]
[ When You Figure Out How ]
[ The Person On The Other End Will Hear Your Voice ]
[ But This Is Only A Suggestion From Me ]
[ Now, It’s Your Choice ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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(278)▪︎[ Agree Or Disagree? … 3•18•2020 ]
[ When Someone Says { WE SHOULD AGREE TO DISAGREE } ]
[ What Would That Mean To You & Me? ]
[ Wouldn’t That Mean That They Would Be Disagreeing ]
[ To Your Agreeing? ]
[ How Can You Get A Person To Agree With You ]
[ When All They Want To Is Disagree With You, Too ]
[ We Should Be Like Little Jack Horner ]
[ & Let Each Of Us Go Back To Our Own Individual Corner ]
[ & Not Let This Conversation Continue ]
[ So While You Disagree With Me ]
[ I’ll Agree About This With You ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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