(1127)▪︎[ The Rose … 9•5•2019 ]

[ There Are Some People Who Learn About Life On
Their Own ]
[ Some People Just Want To Be Left Alone ]
[ Those People March To A Different Tone ]
[ Not Just To A Different Drum ]
[ If You Throw A Party ]
[ Are Those The One’s You Hope Never Come? ]
[ Those People Always Look Out For #1 ]
[ The First Time You Disagree With Their Thinking ]
[ They Could Start Drinking ]
[ & Then Your Relationship With Them Is Done ]

[ Beware, Because These Types Of People Tend To

Act Like Hanging Judges ]
[ If You Don’t Think Their Way ]
[ They Hold Grudges ]
[ That Alter Your Vision Of Them ]
[ It’s Like Cutting The Head Of The Rose Off Its Stem ]
[ It Alters The Look Of That Flower Immediately ]
[ & Considerably ]
[ No One Does That Gleefully ]

[ It Made That Flower Look Alot Worse ]
[ It Could Be Like You Broke A Mirror ]
[ Now Have The 7 Year Curse ]

[ You May As Well Take It Back & Bury It In The Garden That It Came From ]
[ Hopefully The Owner Of The Garden Will Still Have Some ]
[ The Moral Of The Story Is ]
[ Don’t Cut Off The Head Of Something Of Beauty ]
[ Killing A Rose Is Not Your Duty ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(111)▪︎[ A Meaningful Story … 2•8•2022 ]

[ I Have This Friend, Who I Dearly Love ]
[ Who Really Has Alot Of Faith In The Man Who Lives Really High
Above ]

[ I Have Tried My Hardest To Be The Best Male Friend That She Has
Ever Had ]
[ & I Have Tried My Hardest To Never Make Her Mad ]

[ I Am Very Sure ]
[ That I Have Never Wanted To Be On The Wrong Side Of Anger
With Her ]

[ Oh, I Have Heard Story After Story ]
[ Of Her Past Glory ]

[ She Became (2) Parents To Her Kids When Her Husband Of
Over (30) Years Passed ]
[ But Parental Love Did Not Lapse ]

[ She Took On The Mother/Father/Grandmother/Grandfather
Roles Quite Well ]
[ Love & Honesty Did Not Go To Hell ]

[ I Could Never Pinpoint The Day Or Event That, When Or How We
Became Best Friends ]
[ We Just Did ]
[ So That Is Where & When The Mystery Ends ]

[ She Is So Hard-Headed, She Told Me The Nickname That She
Wanted Me To Call Her By ]
[ I Do Not Speak Spanish & I Did Not Know The Definition ]
[ But I Gave It A Try ]

[ She Did Not Curse @ Me ]
[ She Did Not Slap Me ]
[ She Did Not Shoot @ Me (WHERE DID SHE GET A GUN IN THIS
STORY?) ]
[ She Did Not Send Her Son Or Her Large Brother After Me ]

[ So It Did Not Offend ]
[ So I Guessed That I Did Not Have My Life To Defend ]

[ When I Say It, Nobody Gets Chafed ]
[ So I Think That I Am Safe ]

[ I Have Learned Through Our Short Friendship That When
Cavarona Says To Do Something, That Something Gets Done ]
[ Or Nobody Gets A Warm Tortilla ]
[ Or Has Any Fun ]

[ She Says It Means, (HARD HEADED, STUBBORN) ]
[ Well That Hits The Nail On The Head ]
[ It Probably Started, Right After She Was Born ]

[ My Friend Is Solid & Built Like A Tank ]
[ A Couple Of Mystery Men Tried To Treat Her Like A Community
Bank ]

[ That Was A Hard Sell ]
[ They Could Not Crack That Titanium Shell ]

[ But My Best Friend Will Be Leaving Us Soon ]
[ Maybe I Could Reminisce About Her When I See The Moon ]

[ But That Is Not What Keys My My Memory To That Smile
On Her Face ]
[ I Know What & Where ]
[ It Will Be My Place ]

[ We Had So Many Long Talks Instead Turning Of The T.V. On ]
[ What Am I Going To Do The Minute AFTER I Am Told That
She Has Gone ]

[ For Her Memorial She Told Me To Wear My Vans, Shorts &
A Hawaiian Shirt ]
[ I Just Hopes That Nobody Thinks That I Am Being Disrespectful ]
[ & Knocks My Ass In The Dirt ]
[ I Don’t Want To Get Hurt ]

[ I Hope That Maria Tells Someone That This ]
[ Was Her Wish ]

[ We Talked About That There Was Not A Single Time Where She
Saw Me Wearing Long Pants ]
[ Not Even A Glance ]

[ No Pictures, No Nothing ]
[ I Can Not Remember The Last Time That I Wore Pants For
Something

[ My Mind Is Flooded With So Many Thoughts & Words ]
[ Flying Around Like A Big Bunch Of Birds ]

[ So Much To Say ]
[ So Little Time ]
[ What Is The Way ]
[ That I Could End This Story That I Wrote To My Very Best Friend,
But Make It Rhyme? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1129)▪︎[ Happy 30th Birthday, Pam … 9•6•2019 ]

[ Happy Birthday To My Friend Pam ]
[ Do I Miss You Dearly? ]
[ Oh, Yes Ma’am ]

[ Saturdays, Have Never Been The Same ]
[ Ever Since Jori ]
[ Stopped Calling Your Name ]

[ You Moved Far Far Away ]
[ That Means We Can’t See You ]
[ Every Saturday ]

[ So Today Was The Celebration Of Your Birth ]
[ We All Should Celebrate Every Day You’ve Been On
This Earth ]
[ So If The Celebrating Must Be Condensed To Just One Day ]
[ I’ll Try To Find A Way ]
[ To Shorten Down What I Want To Say ]
[ I’ll Write It In A Story ]
[ If I May ]

[ So How Many Times Have You Celebrated Turning Thirty? ]
[ The Only One Who Knows The Truth Is Only A Little Birdie? ]

[ I Hope You Had Fun Today & Celebrated In Style ]
[ After Writing This ]
[ I’ll Be Sad For Awhile ]

[ Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday, Sorry This Is Late ]
[ Next Year I’ll Remember This Date ]

[ I Hope You Like Everything That You Got ]
[ But True Friendship Can Never Be Bought ]
[ & A Friendly Story Was Something You Sought ]
[ But Bottom Line Pam ]
[ We Miss You Lots! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1397)▪︎ [ Total Confusion … 12•13•2019 ]

[ I Am Totally Confused ]
[ & Right Now ]
[ I Have A Short Fuse ]

[ I Have No Clue Who I Can & Cannot Trust ]
[ Is Trust A Must? ]
[ Why Is The End Result Often A Bust? ]

[ & There Are Millions Of People Out There ]
[ Who Really Don’t Care ]

[ Those Are The Ones ]
[ That You Stay Away From ]

[ They Are The Wolves Dressed Up As Sheep ]
[ When Others Don’t Give A Rip ]
[ You Hear Nothing Louder Than A Bleep ]

[ They’re Not Dumb ]
[ By Any Means ]
[ They Will Always Sit Back & Be Numb ]

[ The Confusion Is Oftentimes Day & Night ]
[ When I’m Startled Awake ]
[ I’m In The Mode Of Fight Or Flight ]

[ Do I Run ]
[ Or Pick Up A Gun ]
[ For Fun? ]

[ Will I Have The Nerve To Pull The Trigger? ]
[ When I Find Out That The Nightmares Will Get Bigger
& Bigger? ]
[ So I Should Just Quit ]
[ This Shit! ]
[ This Makes Me Fed Up, With All Of It ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(732)▪︎[ The Rising Water … 8•29•2020 ]

[ How Do You Keep Your Head Above The Rising Water? ]
[ When The Air Around You Keeps Getting Hotter? ]

[ You Want To Dip Your Head Under To Feel Cool ]
[ But The Water Seems To Be Getting So High ]
[ You Have To Stand Up On Your Tallest Stool ]

[ If I Hold My Breath, I Think I’ll Be Fine ]
[ Life On One Side, Death On The Other ]
[ They Are Just Separated Down The Middle By A Thin Line ]

[ If I Lean To The Right Will I Have Regret ]
[ But When I Look Around ]
[ I Don’t See That Anyone Is Left ]

[ Right Or Wrong ]
[ Having Blind Faith In Others ]
[ Proved That The Bond Was Not Strong ]

[ Two Or Three Have Stayed ]
[ They Never Strayed ]

[ & That Is All That I Have To Say ]
[ Right Now On This Day ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(573)▪︎[ Almost Moving Day … 7•13•2021 ]

[ Well, Tomorrow Is The Big Day ]
[ & What Can You Say? ]

[ Yahoo!! ]
[ Boo Hoo? ]

[ Good Luck! ]
[ Go Ducks! ]

[ You Don’t Really Know ]
[ This Day Came Upon Us Extremely Slow ]

[ Time, Getting Here ]
[ & Now It Is Near ]
[ & The Date Is Marked So Clear ]

[ July 14th, 2021 Will Go Down In History ]
[ As The Day That You Stopped Living In Misery ]

[ Every Single Night ]
[ You Had To Fight ]
[ The Fright ]

[ You Are Not Jumping Up & Down For Joy ]
[ Like A Wind-Up Toy ]
[ Because He Will Always Be Your Boy ]

[ But There Is The Fact ]
[ About How Dangerous He Acts ]

[ To You & Others ]
[ Even Towards His Mother ]

[ Clear To His Soul ]
[ He Has Become Out Of Control ]

[ Every Single Night ]
[ You Had To Fight ]
[ The Fright ]
[ That Was Just Slightly Out Of Your Sight ]

[ When He Gets Confronted, He Clenches His Fists ]
[ & That Really Shows That He Is Extremely Pissed ]

[ Off ]
[ & All Of His Common Sense Is Lost ]

[ So, Yes It Is About Time That He Takes His Groove ]
[ & Move ]

[ See How He Deals With Others After The Honeymoon
Stage ]
[ Is Over ]
[ & He Acts (4) Years Younger Than His Actual Age ]

[ Than They Will See The Actual, Real Him ]
[ & He Becomes A Problem ]

[ But The Problem Is Now There ]
[ They Can Sweat Out The Problems That He Will Cause ]
[ That Will Make Them Pull Out Their Own Hair ]

[ You Were & Am Tired Of The Rampant Disrespect That He
Shows ]
[ & How He Thumbs His Nose ]

[ @ Whatever You Have Said ]
[ & Does Whatever He Wants To Do Instead ]

[ He Will Now Have To Listen To What They Say ]
[ & As He Tries To Make The Staff There, Earn Their Pay ]

[ Now His Pains & Aches ]
[ Will Cause Them Headaches ]

[ Just Like It Is Almost Moving Time ]
[ This Is The End Of This Specific Rhyme ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(540)▪︎[ It Makes You Curious … 7•2•2021 ]

[ So Many Words Coming Together To Make So Many
Thoughts ]
[ Then Swirling Around Like A Rollercoaster Of Dots ]

[ But Dots Do Not Come Together To Make Sentences ]
[ That Touches Your Senses ]

[ Making Sense May Not Be Your Goal ]
[ Sometimes You Have To Take The Dice & Give It A Roll ]

[ The Odds Are Never In Your Favor ]
[ & Losing, Has It’s Own Special, Bitter Flavor ]

[ How Did Thoughts Turn Into Food? ]
[ Somewhere In The Last 8 Lines ]
[ Things Were Misunderstood ]
[ For Some, That Might Sound Fine ]
[ But To The Average Reader, That Does Not Look Good ]

[ Dots Can Come In So Many Shapes & Colors ]
[ You Might Like One Kind ]
[ While Your Friends Like Some Others ]

[ You Guess, To Each Their Own ]
[ Sometimes Things Are Better Left All Alone ]

[ Because Crowds ]
[ Can Sometimes Come In Extremely Loud ]

[ Some Of Them ]
[ Thinks That They Are The Budding Head Of A Rose ]
[ & You Are Just The Stem ]

[ But The Stem Of A Rose Has Thorns That Hurt ]
[ Even Under Their Shirt ]

[ Others Never Take You Serious ]
[ & That Makes You Curious ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(087)▪︎[ So Alike, But So Different … 1•27•2022 ]

[ Does Everything Have To Go Up & Down In This World For
Everything To Work? ]
[ Even For The People That Have A Little Quirck? ]

[ Some Say A Little Quirckiness Is Good ]
[ They Should Tell You Before Their Actions Are Misunderstood ]

[ Everybody Has Something Quircky About Them, But It May
Not Be Obvious To The Average Joe ]
[ People Work Really Hard To Hide Whatever It Is, So It Won’t
Show ]

[ We Are All Not The Same By Any Means ]
[ You Guess We Would Look Somewhat Alike, If We Hid Behind
Enough Screens ]

[ We Don’t Look, Talk, Or Ever Feel The Same ]
[ So We Don’t All Have The Same Name ]

[ But Deep Down We Are The Same, But Some Are Not Treated
As Such ]
[ Alot Of People Are Being Treated Like They Don’t Mean Very
Much ]

[ To Who? ]
[ Well There Are Alot You’s ]

[ We All Have The Same Amount Of Bones ]
[ We Start Off With The Same Number Of Fingers & Toes ]
[ We Have (2) Eyes, Lips & Ears ]
[ & (1) Nose ]

[ Bias & Prejudice Are Behaviors That Are Learned ]
[ Not Earned ]

[ As Someone Grows & Ages ]
[ Their Personality Starts Showing ]
[ From Loving To Rages ]

[ Likes & Dislikes ]
[ Do They Like To Go On Long Walks? ]
[ Or Long, Exhausting Hikes? ]

[ Nobody Has THE Answer On How To Treat Each Other Like
Each Other ]
[ There Were Many Ways That You Were Like Your Younger
Brother ]

[ But Just Because You Are Blood, That Doesn’t Mean You Are
In Any Way Alike ]
[ Your Sister Was Like A (3) Wheeler ]
[ While You Were A Mountain Bike ]

[ Just Like There Are Many Types Of Cancers ]
[ There Must Be Alot Of Different Answers ]

[ We Are Alike, But So Different ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(085)▪︎[ Just Existing … 1•27•2022 ]

[ What Would It Feel Like Being Stuck, Penniless, Hungry, Angry &
Alone? ]
[ You Have No Idea How Long It Had Been Since You Last Got
A Text On Your Phone ]

[ You Feel Like You Are On An Island, But You Have (4) Walls ]
[ On & Off During The Day, You Feel The Tightening Of Your
Jaws ]

[ You Have Lost Track Of The Days & Weeks ]
[ You Feel A Burning Sensation, Inside Both Cheeks ]

[ You Have A Huge Knot, On The Right Side Of Your Back ]
[ You Can’t Afford An Actual Meal ]
[ Not Even A Snack ]

[ You Do Not Recall The Last Time You Ate ]
[ You Are Not Trying To ]
[ But You Can Tell That You Are Losing Weight ]

[ The Light In Your Room Flickers On & Off ]
[ You Have Had The Cold Sweats ]
[ & A Really Deep, Barking Cough ]

[ There Is No Medication That Would Agree With Your System ]
[ Nothing Prescribed By Your P.C. Doctor ]
[ Not By Any Of Them ]

[ You Cannot Remember The Last Time That You Left The House
For Pleasure ]
[ You Used To Get Coins From The Bank ]
[ As You Hunted For Treasure ]

[ You Used To Look Through So Many Pennies, Nickels & Dimes ]
[ Hours After Hours ]
[ Yes, Those Were Good Times ]

[ But After Your Spouse ]
[ Left The House ]

[ Things Have Never Been The Same ]
[ You Can Not Find Your Wife Anymore ]
[ Because She Changed Her Whole Name ]

[ Without Telling You ]
[ Without Leaving A Clue ]

[ You Have Thought Of Taking A Whole Bottle Of Store Bought
Sleeping Pills ]
[ But You Found In The Past That It Did Not Even Make You Feel
Ill ]
[ It Only Gave You Cold Sweats & Then The Chills ]

[ A Single Ambien Usually Knocks The Average Person On
Their Ass ]
[ But You Took (28) Of Them Really Fast ]
[ Using The Last Swallow Of Soda, That You Had In Your Glass ]

[ You Waited All Night To Fall Asleep ]
[ After A Couple Of Hours You Were Able To Drift Away ]
[ But You Didn’t Go Very Deep ]

[ You Startle Yourself Awake, Way To Early In The Morning ]
[ Then You Have Flashbacks Throughout The Whole Day & Night
Without A Second’s Worth Of Warning ]

[ You Feel That All You Do Is Exist ]
[ You Are Not Enjoying Your Hobbies ]
[ So You Are Not Making A Single List ]

[ You Like To Inventory Everything That You Have Collected ]
[ Now All Your Hobbies Sit Neglected ]

[ Ever Since You Were A Teen Boy ]
[ Your Life Had Found Very Little Joy ]

[ You Always Wished That As You Grew Older You Would Come
Across Some ]
[ Nothing Ever Came ]
[ Everyday Was The Same ]
[ Making You Feel Dumb ]

[ There Are Some Days & Nights ]
[ You Do Not Stand Up To Turn On The Lights ]

[ The Only Times That You Get Up, Is To Go To The Bathroom &
Back Again ]
[ You Guess Your Dad Was Right When He Told You ]
[ (YOU WILL NEVER MAKE IT, YOU WILL NEVER WIN) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(073)▪︎[ Happier Times … 1•24•2022 ]

[ Oftentimes, When One Is Searching For Solace, They Go @ It All
Alone ]
[ When They Pick Up The Phone ]
[ Listening For The Voice Of Reason ]
[ They Only Get The Dial Tone ]

[ You Can’t Wash Lonely Off Of Your Back In The Shower ]
[ You Neither Have The Patience Or The Power ]

[ It Is A Common Mistake To Look For Love In All Of The Wrong
Places ]
[ You Only Think There Is Love ]
[ In All Of The Wrong Faces ]

[ You’ve Heard (1000) Stories But None Of Them Rings True ]
[ White Is Black ]
[ & Red Is Blue ]

[ Nobody Tells The Truth Anymore ]
[ Not The Lady Leaning Against The Wall ]
[ Or ]
[ The Guy Who Just Walked Through The Door ]

[ You Had The Bright Idea That When You Had $200 In Your
Pocket You Made It Rich ]
[ & You No Longer Had To Scratch That Itch ]

[ But If You Don’t Keep Moving, That Itch Will Turn Into A Scratch
That Gets Infected ]
[ You Will Wait So Long To Get Some Medicine ]
[ It Would Need To Be Injected ]

[ Stay Stagnant & You Turn Fat & Lazy ]
[ When You Hesitate Too Long & Talk To Yourself Too Much ]
[ People Will Start Calling You Crazy ]

[ All Because You Thought You Had Made It Too Early In Life ]
[ So You Have No Kids ]
[ You Never Had The Pleasure Of Having A Wife ]

[ Because You Were Always Looking For The Next ]
[ You Always Thought That You Would Find The Best Woman
Through A Text ]

[ Not The Old Fashioned Way Of Getting Out Of The House &
Meeting Her ]
[ If You Look @ A Text You Can Never Be Sure ]

[ Friends Have Passed You By & Moved Away ]
[ You Have Not Seen A Friendly Face All Day ]

[ You Are Relegated To A Monotonous Routine ]
[ You Are Neither The King Of All You Can See ]
[ You’ve Never Been Able To Share It With A Queen ]

[ Time Passes By When A Day Turns Into A Week ]
[ & You Have Aged Past Your Peak ]

[ Sooner, Rather Than Later, You Lay In Your Bed, Waiting For
Death To Give Your Ticket A Punch ]
[ You All Of Sudden Flash Back To Happier Times When You
Were Sharing A Lunch ]
[ With … ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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