[ Sometimes It Doesn’t Matter Where You Come From ]
[ It Matters What You Are Made Of ]
[ & The Only Thing In Life That Does Not Make You
Feel Numb ]
[ Is When Someone Special Shows You Lots Of Love ]
[ Sometimes It Doesn’t Matter What Is In Your Past ]
[ But It Does Matter How Fast ]
[ You Are Creating Good Memories That Will Last ]
[ Your Past Experiences Has Molded You Into Who &
What You Are Today ]
[ It Doesn’t Always Matter What You Say ]
[ But It Does Matter How You Show Things In Your Own
Special Way ]
[ Shock People When They Think That When You Should Turn
Left You Turn Right ]
[ You May Not Have Got Your Point Across With What Was Said ]
[ It Is What You Write ]
[ That Gets Your Point Stuck Into Their Head ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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[713]▪︎[ The Sword … 8•20•2020 ]
[ Sometimes Life Seems To Be A Double Edged Sword ]
[ There Seems To Be Times ]
[ When It Gets Hard To Remember What You Are Walking
Towards ]
[ One Little Slip & You Could Fall Off Of Your Path ]
[ One Day You Could Wake Up ]
[ & Find That You No Longer Can Do Simple Math ]
[ Does 2+2 Still Add Up To Four In Your Head? ]
[ You Are Pleasantly Surprised That You Are Not Always
Cloudy ]
[ Because Of Your Huge List Of Meds ]
[ You Take This Med Because Of That ]
[ You Take Another Med For This ]
[ There Has To Be One For The Pain In Your Back ]
[ On That Long List ]
[ If There Is Not One, There Should ]
[ If You Had A Prescription For One, You Could ]
[ If You Had One To Take, You Would ]
[ The Double Edged Sword Part Comes Into Play When
Something Happens That Is Seen As Being
Bittersweet ]
[ On One Hand Something May Fit In Your Life Nice &
Neat ]
[ But On The Other Side You Could Feel Like You Had Just Been Knocked
Off Of Your Feet ]
[ & The Good Feelings That You Were Just Having Now Has To
Take A Backseat ]
[ If A Really Good Friend Gave You News That Was Hard
To Take ]
[ Would The News Make ]
[ You Shake? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]
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[123][ Not What I Wanted To Do … 4•6•2021 ]
[ Well Isn’t That Just Great ]
[ I Just Did Something That I Hate ]
[ I Just Hurt ]
[ Someone That Is So Important To Me ]
[ With My Written Words ]
[ My Words Usually Sing Out The Truth About What I
Want To Say ]
[ But This Did Not Happen Yesterday ]
[ They Came Across Strong ]
[ But Maybe The Explaination Was Way Too Long ]
[ So Then The Whole Meaning ]
[ Came Out All Wrong ]
[ When I’m Here ]
[ I Think I Explain Myself Well ]
[ But It Has Been Made Abundantly Clear ]
[ That My Message Went To Hell ]
[ Hurt Towards You Should Never Had Been There ]
[ What I Was Attempting To Say & Share ]
[ Is How Much I Miss You & Care ]
[ You Used To Be Here @ Least Two Days A Week, Sometimes
More ]
[ I Would Get SO Excited When I Heard Your Soft Knock On
My Door ]
[ Then I Knew You Were All Mine ]
[ Into The Night ]
[ Until @ Least Nine ]
[ But … Now You Are Not Here ]
[ & That Causes A Tear ]
[ & Then Another One ]
[ & Another One ]
[ I Find That Doing This Is Not Very Fun! ]
[ I Would Much Rather Give You A Big Long Hug ]
[ Then Pull Your Heart Out ]
[ To Give It A Tug ]
[ Hurting Is/Has/Was/Never On My Mind ]
[ When It Comes To You, Cavarona ]
[ I Am Not That Kind ]
[ Of Person Or Friend ]
[ I’ll Feel That Way To The Very End! ]
[ & I Will So Fight ]
[ For That Conclusion ]
[ To Not Be Anywhere In My Sight! ]
[ Especially After This Discussion ]
[ It Will Not Be Tonight! ]
[ You Are The Cavarona Clear To The Bone ]
[ That Is Shown ]
[ As Well As It’s Known ]
[ Whenever You Take A Trip To The Beach Like You Will & Do ]
[ You Can Look @ That Bag With The Lousy Emblem ]
[ & Know That I Was Thinking Of You When I Bought That For You ]
[ You Are So Missed ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[1045][ Don’t Be Blind … 12•12•2020 ]
[ The Eyes Are Useless When The Mind Is Blind ]
[ They Can’t Help You See ]
[ That Your Actions @ The Moment Will Put You In
A Bind ]
[ A Closed Mind Will Never Let You Hear ]
[ When Something That Used To Be So Far Away Is
Now Near ]
[ When @ Times You Think That The World Stops @
The Tip Of Your Nose ]
[ You Will Find That That The Consequences You Get ]
[ May Be The Results Of The Choices That You Chose ]
[ On This Life Path That You Are Now Walking On ]
[ For If You Become Too Careless ]
[ You Could Wake Up One Morning & All That You Have
Grown To Love Is Now All Gone ]
[ Maybe @ The Fork In The Road In Your Life ]
[ You Quickly Went Left ]
[ When Everyone Else Went Right ]
[ It Is Not So Much That You Took The Easier Low
Road ]
[ But It Seemed @ Times ]
[ That You Made Everyone Around You See That You
Hardly Ever Pulled Your Whole Load ]
[ Society Is A Social Bunch ]
[ Always Loving Companionship For Dinner, Breakfast &
Lunch ]
[ A Possible Reason Why Society Is Bitter, Anti-Social &
Mean ]
[ May Be Because This Virus ]
[ Made Everybody Self Quarantine ]
[ Social Deprivation Can Have Very Harmful Effects]
[ It Can Cause Some People To Disrespect ]
[ Others That They Suspect ]
[ That May Have Contracted & Then Spreading This
‘VID19 Virus ]
[ That Is Harming & Killing Us ]
[ With A Closed Mind, So Goes Your Vision ]
[ A Closed Mind, Can Also Cause Division ]
[ Division Amongst The Family & Friends That Has
Always Stood By Your Side ]
[ You Also Will Find Out Who Has Constantly Lied ]
[ Lied, Because When The Water Gets Turbulent For
The Fair Weathered Friends They Are The First
To Bail ]
[ They Will No Longer Return Your Calls ]
[ Or Respond To Your Many Emails ]
[ They Will Look & Find ]
[ The Smallest Reasons ]
[ To Erase The Thoughts About You In Their Mind ]
[ & Then Become Devoid Of All Compassion ]
[ As They Leave You Behind ]
[ You Will Feel That Their Mind Has Shut Off & Shut
Down ]
[ So Where Once Your Eyes Saw Pretty Colors ]
[ All They See Now Is Grays & Browns ]
[ But Do Not Walk In Their Footsteps ]
[ & Then Do It To Others ]
[ Because You Know How It Feels To Be Left ]
[ By Your Mother & Brothers ]
[ A Closed Mind Prevents You From Growing
Throughout The Upcoming Days, Months & Years ]
[ It Is Not A Guarantee That A Closed Mind Prevents Tears ]
[ Open Your Mind, Eyes & Take The Headphones Off
Of Your Ears ]
[ & Your Head ]
[ Then Make A Stand To Listen To What Is Said Right
Here ]
[ Instead ]
[ Of Trying To Listen To What Is Going On Over There ]
[ For If It Involved You]
[ You Should Hope That They Would Share ]
[ It With You, Too ]
[ Don’t Say (NOPE) ]
[ & Jump Ship ]
[ Because You Felt There Was No Hope ]
[ Some People With A Closed Mind Will Stand There For
Awhile ]
[ & Give You Their Best Smile ]
[ All The While ]
[ Wondering What Is Going On Down The Road About A Mile ]
[ Then You Come To Realize Some Close Minded People
Never Intend To Change ]
[ They Feel That Would Be Doing Something Extremely
Strange ]
[ That Is When You Decide To Rearrange Your Priorities
& Make Better Use Of Your Effort & Time ]
[ If You Choose To Put One More Minute Into Them ]
[ That Would Be A Crime ]
[ Then You Can Turn Your Attention On Another
Mountain To Climb ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[1019][ My Mind … 12•3•2020 ]
[ How Do I Get The Thoughts In My My Mind Off Of
My Mind? ]
[ Because There Are Many Many ]
[ Thoughts That Are Not Of the Most Positive
Kind ]
[ When I Don’t Use My (MAKE SENSE) Filter ]
[ My Whole Thinking Gets Off Kilter ]
[ I Just Want All Of These Negative Thoughts That
Are Swirling Around In My Brain ]
[ To Quickly Find Their Way To The Most Direct Path
Down The Drain ]
[ But One Thing I Know ]
[ & The Past Will Show ]
[ That The Bad Thoughts Will Go ]
[ Down ]
[ The Drain, Oh ]
[ So ]
[ Slow ]
[ Will They Go As Slow As Fast As They Came? ]
[ Will It Be Different Or Will It Be The Same? ]
[ When These Bad Thoughts Call Out My Name ]
[ I Know They Are Not Playing A Tame ]
[ Game ]
[ Because You See ]
[ This Fact Is Not Commonly Known By My Family ]
[ That Sometimes The Bad Thoughts Try To Get
The Best Of Me ]
[ Making It Easy To Cause A Rift ]
[ Doing The Opposite Of Giving Me A Lift ]
[ Making All Of My Muscles To Go Stiff ]
[ Then Sending Me To The Very Edge ]
[ Of The Cliff ]
[ Encouraging Me To Take The Dive ]
[ Asking Me (DO I REALLY WANT TO CONTINUE
BEING ALIVE?)]
[ So Far, So Good I Have Been Able To Change
That Mood ]
[ So Far I Have Been Able To Have A Better Attitude ]
[ Staying Away From That Cliff Is My Main
Objective ]
[ Knowing That Bad Thoughts Are Purely Subjective ]
[ Then Trying To Convince Myself Really Fast ]
[ That These Negative Thoughts Don’t Always Last ]
[ & Try To Leave Things In The Past ]
[ As Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust ]
[ Having & Getting Trust ]
[ Is A Must ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[109][ Full Memories … 3•1•2022 ]
[ Are Your Memories Full Of Mistakes That Were Made? ]
[ Or Lessons Learned? ]
[ Would You Always Trade ]
[ Back In ]
[ The Mistakes That Caused You Concern? ]
[ Are The Lessons Learned Always Because Of The
Mistakes You Make? ]
[ Can You Magically Make A Pie? ]
[ After You Tried To Make A Cake? ]
[ The Knowledge That Mistakes Bring ]
[ Are Not Tied Together By Strings ]
[ You Try Your Hardest To Not Make The Same Mistakes
Twice ]
[ Not Burning Your Hand On A Hot Stove Again ]
[ Would Really Be Nice ]
[ Sometimes My Mistakes Makes Their Way Into My Dreams ]
[ I Have No Control Of That It Seems ]
[ Everyday I Wind Around Lifes Potholes ]
[ Many Times In My Life ]
[ I Have Questioned My Roles ]
[ Of What I’m Supposed To Be ]
[ In Today’s Fractious Society ]
[ Do I Wear Many Hats, Or Just Concentrate On Just A Few? ]
[ I Don’t Have The Heart Or Energy ]
[ To Take On Anything New ]
[ I Never Want To Shift The Spotlight On Me ]
[ So Others Can Taunt ( OH BOO HOO ) ]
[ I Don’t Believe In Pity Parties So You Could Sit In The
Corner & Pout ]
[ I Thoroughly Believe In Working Things Out ]
[ Then I Can Fall Asleep With No Nagging Doubts ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[1007]▪︎[ Is It All Worth A Pickle? … 12•1•2020 ]
[ Tell Me Your Thoughts & I’ll Give You A Nickel ]
[ Or If You Want ]
[ I’ll Go Out & Buy You A Pickle ]
[ Dill, Sweet Or Hamburger Chips? ]
[ What Taste Do You Like ]
[ Going Through Your Lips? ]
[ Soft Or Crunchy? ]
[ What Do You Eat When You Have The Munchies? ]
[ Are Your Thoughts Worth A Nickel Or A Dime? ]
[ Would You Ever Make The Time? ]
[ To Write Them Down ]
[ & Put Them Into A Rhyme? ]
[ If Not, Then Why Not? ]
[ Are You Afraid That It Won’t Sound So Hot? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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[142][ Watch The Waves … 3•21•2021 ]
[ Here I Sit @ The Beach Watching The Sun Set ]
[ Is There A Higher Being? ]
[ Oh Yes, I Bet ]
[ As I Grow Older ]
[ I Find ]
[ That True Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder ]
[ As The Sun Drops Below That Cloud ]
[ I Hear Nothing But Waves ]
[ The People Have Left, So There Is No Crowd ]
[ The Waves Are In A Constant Flow ]
[ Sometimes Fast ]
[ More Oftentimes Slow ]
[ In & Out, In & Out ]
[ What’s That All About? ]
[ Sometimes The Waves Go Up Far On The Sand ]
[ Sometimes The Waves Reach Out Like A Hand ]
[ Grabbing Everything It Can ]
[ Every Once In Awhile It’s Someone That Was Not
Paying Attention To Where They Are ]
[ I’ve Seen On T.V. ]
[ When Some Waves Enveloped A Car ]
[ When People Don’t Respect Mother Nature ] [ They Could That They Don’t Have Much Of A Future ]
[ But As I Sit Watching Mother Nature’s Best ]
[ I Hear The Heartbeat In My Chest ]
[ Oh It’s So Serene Up Here ]
[ My Heartfelt Feelings For The Ocean ]
[ Causes A Tear ]
[ I’m So Thankful That My Best Friend Brought Me Here Today ]
[ We Are Definitely Going To Find A Way ]
[ To Come Back For Another Stay ]
[ We Were Able To Spend The Day Until The Sun Went Down ]
[ There Were Very Few Times ]
[ When We Were The Only Ones Around ]
[ There Were People To The Left & h To The Right ]
[ But Then Crowds Went Away ]
[ When The BeacLost Its Light ]
[ I Took More Pictures That Day Than I Ever Had ]
[ The Pictures Did Not Turn Out All That Bad ]
[ When I’ll Look @ Them In The Future ]
[ I Will Happy & Sad ]
[ Ecstatic Of How Fun The Day Turned Out To Be ]
[ Sad Because It Will Be A Reminder ]
[ That My Best Friend Maria Will Not Be The Caregiver For Me ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[546]▪︎[ Some Friends … 6•6•2021 ]
[ You Could Laugh Or You Could Cry ]
[ But Things Stop Being Funny ]
[ When Someone Drips Water From Their Eye ]
[ You Never Want To Be The Cause Of A Tear ]
[ In Fact, You Don’t Want To Be Anywhere Near ]
[ You Don’t Want To Be Completely Gone ]
[ Because You Do Want To Be The One To Give ]
[ Them The Shoulder, They Can Lean On ]
[ Having That Shoulder, Is A Much Needed Thing ]
[ Sometimes, That’s All You Really Need To Bring ]
[ A Good Relationship Is When You Are Able To Go
Both Ways ]
[ Sometimes You Are The Rock ]
[ & Sometimes You Just Have One Of Those Days ]
[ You Need To Feel Secure With The Person You Go To ]
[ Sometimes They Don’t Even Need A Clue ]
[ They Are Just There On Cue ]
[ & Know, Exactly What To Do ]
[ It Needs To Be Communicated ]
[ That All Parties Are Dedicated ]
[ For The Same Cause ]
[ Without Taking A Pause ]
[ There Is Fun & There Is Sadness ]
[ When You Find The Right One ]
[ You Are Usually Sad Less ]
[ There Is No Such Thing As The Highly, Sought After Marital Bliss ]
[ Every Couple Has Bumps & Curves In The Road ]
[ But Being Single Is The One Thing You Shouldn’t Miss ]
[ Being Married Will Be The Hardest Job You Will Ever, Ever Have ]
[ With A Good Partner ]
[ Your Problems Could Be Cut In Half ]
[ When You Get To The Point Where You Have Two Brains
Thinking As One ]
[ That’s When You Start To Really Have Fun ]
[ & Then No One Wants To Run ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[159]▪︎[ When You Know It Is True … 4•6•2021 ]
[ What Does The Word (LOVE) Mean To Me Or You? ]
[ Does Love Make The Sky Blue? ]
[ How Do I Know When The Love Is True? ]
[ Love Comes In Many Shapes & Sizes ]
[ Sometimes Love Hides Behind Disguises ]
[ A Disguise That Does Not Hide Love For Very Long ]
[ There Eventually Comes The Day ]
[ Where I Feel & Know Where That Person Belongs ]
[ One Day, This Woman Took A Chance & Knocked On My Door ]
[ It Took Me A Few Days ]
[ Before I Figured Out What She Came To My House For ]
[ She Came To Spend Some Time With Me & To Enhance My
Life ]
[ After She Became My Friend ]
[ She Then Became My Wife ]
[ Then One Day This One Woman Showed Up To Be A Caregiver
For Me ]
[ I Had No Clue ]
[ Who She Would Turn Out To Be ]
[ I Did Not Know, That Was My Best Friend Hiding Behind Those Kind Eyes ]
[ I Did Not Know That My Wife To Be ]
[ Thought That I Was Any Kind Of A Prize ]
[ I Thought That Plain Old Me Was Seen ]
[ As Just One Of Those Ordinary Guys ]
[ Two Different Times, Two Different Effects ]
[ I Find That I’m A Lucky Man ]
[ As I Take Time To Reflect ]
[ About These Two Different Women ]
[ That I’ve Come To Highly Respect ]
[ Granted These Two Occurrences Happened 26 Years Apart ]
[ My Wife Is In & My Friend Is Near ]
[ & Dear ]
[ To My Heart ]
[ I Would Walk Through Fire For Both Of Them If That’s What
I Was Called Up To Do ]
[ Because When It Comes To These Two ]
[ I’d Walk Through That Fire ]
[ Without Any Shoes ]
[ My Feet Would Be Hurting, But My Smile Would Be Wide ]
[ If I Said That I Wasn’t Scared ]
[ That Would Had Been A Lie ]
[ It Is Not Like I Would Have, Something To Prove ]
[ But For Both Of Them ]
[ I’d Show That It Wouldn’t Matter If It Was Heaven Or Hell I’d
Have To Move ]
[ Each Woman Is In My Life For The Same Reason ]
[ To Enhance My Life Through Season After Season ]
[ My Wife Loves Me Because Of This & My Friend Loves
Me Because Of That ]
[ My Wife Is The Only One That I Kiss ]
[ But Both Of Them Could Say ]
[ That Sometimes I’m A Brat ]
[ I Don’t Want Either One Of Them To Go Anywhere ]
[ Because They Both Very Much Care ]
[ If Either One Uped & Left Me Here ]
[ That Would Cause Me To Tear ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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