[ What Do You See When You Look @ Yourself In The
Mirror? ]
[ Is It A Man Who Is Trying To Power Through A Hangover? ]
[ After A Hard Night Of Drinking Beer? ]
[ Are The Wrinkles Multiplying? ]
[ & The Crows Feet On The Side Of Your Eyes ]
[ Are Really Flying ]
[ Showing Up Whenever You Give That Smile ]
[ For Awhile ]
[ That Smoker’s Cough ]
[ Can Really Turn People Away ]
[ & Off ]
[ People Are Thankful That You Wear A Mask ]
[ Because Of Your Breath ]
[ If You Weren’t, You Are Sure That They Would Ask ]
[ There Are Days When You Try To Find Your Groove ]
[ You Have Even Been Told ]
[ To Pack Up & Move ]
[ So, Do You Do What They Want? ]
[ you Have Even Looked @ Your Phone ]
[ & Changed Your Font ]
[ Something New ]
[ Something Different For You ]
[ Where Can You Move To? ]
[ Wherever It Will Be ]
[ Will You Have Enough Room, For All Of Your Shoes? ]
[ The Many Pairs Of Boots, Adidas & Colorful Vans ]
[ There Are Over (25) Pairs ]
[ But Only (4) Brands ]
[ The Numerous Pairs Of Vans Has Taken Over The Shoe Rack ]
[ That Would Be The Only Thing That You Would Take Back ]
[ The Shoe Rack Itself ]
[ Then Look On Amazon & Buy Something Else ]
[ Where Could You Go? ]
[ You Don’t Know ]
[ Does Anybody? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(686)▪︎[ Follow Your Own Light … 8•18•2021 ]
[ You Have Wondered All Of Your Life Why You Are Always
On Your Own ]
[ When The Phone Rings & You Pick It Up ]
[ All You Hear Is A Dial Tone ]
[ You Are Always A Second Too Late ]
[ Even Though You Try To Anticipate ]
[ What Is Going To Happen Next ]
[ You Have Even Been Sent A (DEAR JOHN) Through Text ]
[ Nothing Seems To Go Your Way Even In Town ]
[ Two Different Times That You Thought You Came Upon
A lucky Penny ]
[ But Then You Saw That They Were Heads Down ]
[ You Have Always Been Told That Tails Up ]
[ Does Not Bring You Luck ]
[ Even When You Flip A Coin ]
[ In A Crowd ]
[ Nobody Wants To Join ]
[ One Time You Were In A Store Full Of Mirrors ]
[ & You Tripped & Broke A Whole Row Of Them ]
[ So You Have Bad Luck For Years & Years ]
[ You Have Always Felt That You Were Born Under A Dark
Cloud ]
[ & You Feel Ignored In Big Crowds ]
[ @ Get Together’s, You Seem To Blend In To The Wall ]
[ Seem So Introverted ]
[ People Don’t Notice You @ All ]
[ When You Are @ Home, Your Roommates Are Always Yelling &
Fighting ]
[ So Spend Most Of The Time In Your Writing ]
[ Writing Takes You Up In The Clouds ]
[ It Is Only When You Read Back On What You Written Do
You Feel Proud ]
[ You Have Written Well Over (5,000) In (4) Years Now ]
[ You Wanted To Return The Favor To Your Beautiful Wife,
After She Sent You A Poem ]
[ But You Didn’t Know How ]
[ Then You Put Your Stylus To Your Phone ]
[ & The Way Was Shown ]
[ Now You Have Never Been A Thump The Bible Kind Of
Religious Man ]
[ But You Believe That You Were Given A Gift From GOD ]
[ So He Said (NOW YOU CAN) ]
[ So Now People Read Your Stories You ]
[ & When You Write Your Stories ]
[ You Get Noticed Because Of What You Do ]
[ & Then One Day ]
[ You Were Walking In A Parking Lot ]
[ & Then What Did You Spot? ]
[ You Noticed A Shiny Penny Facing The Right Way ]
[ Then Your Luck Turned ]
[ When You Were In Crowds You Remember What You Learned ]
[ It Is Best That You Just Be Yourself ]
[ Don’t Try To Be Anyone Else ]
[ Now It Is Because Of What You Write ]
[ That Has Become Your Guiding Light ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(676)▪︎[ Outside Of The Norm … 8•12•2021 ]
[ It May Not Be So Sappy ]
[ That You Don’t Have To Be Okay ]
[ To Strive To Be Happy ]
[ It Is Okay, To Feel Sad ]
[ It Is Okay To Feel Bad ]
[ Depending On The Reason ]
[ Not The Season ]
[ It Is Okay To Not Always Be @ The Top Of Your Game ]
[ Everyday ]
[ There Is No One To Blame ]
[ On Why Things Might Be That Way ]
[ It Is Okay If You Are Not In The Mood To Talk ]
[ As We Take A Silent Walk ]
[ Silence Is Nice When Others Around You Know Why ]
[ Just Do Not Smile & Lie ]
[ It Is Okay To Have A Blank Face ]
[ It Is Okay To Ask For Space ]
[ Be Honest With Those Around You ]
[ Don’t Play Them Like A Fool ]
[ Maybe They Are Not Okay, Too ]
[ & They Look To You For Guidance ]
[ & Being A Good Alliance ]
[ Not Giving Them Defiance ]
[ More Than A Few People Are Not Okay In Some Form ]
[ Because It Is Okay To Live Outside Of The Norm ]
[ If You Are Not Hurting Yourself ]
[ Or Anybody Else ]
[ It Is Quite Okay ]
[ Anyday ]
[ To Not Be Okay ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(679)▪︎[ Some Never Change Or Win … 8•13•2021 ]
[ Can You Ever Feel Free ]
[ While Living On Your Knees? ]
[ That Is No Way To Stand ]
[ While Trying To Be A Man ]
[ That Is No Way To Live ]
[ Being Greedy Is Not The Way You Give ]
[ Getting Grouchy & Angry Is Not The Best Way To Grow
Old ]
[ Getting Older & Growing Cold ]
[ That Would Chase Everybody Away From You ]
[ They Just Don’t Like The Things That You Do ]
[ How Can You Improve Your Quality Of Life? ]
[ How Can You Be A Better Husband To Your Wife? ]
[ You Already Sold Both Of Your Guns ]
[ Now If Could Only, Lay Down The Knife ]
[ Say A Kind Word To Someone That You Don’t Know ]
[ Maybe That Would Help Someone Who Might Have Been
Feeling Low ]
[ Make People Think ]
[ Because When You Buy A Homeless Man Something To Eat ]
[ Make Sure You Also Buy Him Something To Drink ]
[ There Are Alot Of Homeless People That Did Not Get There
By Choice ]
[ There Are Alot Of People Around You Who Feels Like Nobody
Can Hear Their Voice ]
[ One Bad Break Can Cause Anyone To Lose Their Belongings
& Their House ]
[ Anybody Could Lose The Wage Earning Spouse ]
[ Bad Things Happen To Good People All Of The Time ]
[ Bills Add Up ]
[ & Money Gets Spent Right Down To The Last Dime ]
[ When People Don’t Have A Good Support System, Things
Often Go From Bad To Worse ]
[ Then They Have So Many Bad Days ]
[ They Feel Like They Had Been Cursed ]
[ What Can Get People On Their Feet Again? ]
[ Some People Never Come Out On Top ]
[ Some People Never Win ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(583)▪︎[ The Fire Season … 7•14•2021 ]
[ When The Clouds Start To Form Overhead ]
[ Most Hope For Sunshine Instead ]
[ But Not You, Not This Time Of The Year ]
[ Last Years Fire Season Made Things Very Clear ]
[ The Fire Season Does Not Only Affect ( OTHERS ) ]
[ It Affects Sisters Or Brothers ]
[ Grandfather’s & Grandmother’s ]
[ It Came So Close To Affecting You ]
[ & Didn’t You See ]
[ That There Wasn’t A Damn Thing That You Could Do ]
[ Nothing ]
[ Not Anything Or Something ]
[ Not One Thing! ]
[ Your House Was A Sitting Duck ]
[ It Sucked ]
[ Your House Was Stuck ]
[ You Were Feeling So Numb ]
[ Just Waiting & Waiting For The Fires To Come ]
[ You Were Never So Dumb ]
[ As To Think That You Could Help … Some ]
[ Then You Would Snap Out Of That Daze ]
[ & Then Look Outside @ The Smoky Haze ]
[ It Wasn’t Inching Closer, It Was Speeding Closer ]
[ Burning Up Cars & Houses ]
[ Jumping Over Tractors & Bulldozers ]
[ You Would Watch The News & Freak Out ]
[ But You Would Never Take The Time To Pout ]
[ It Was Just A Wait & See ]
[ Mother Nature Was Pissed Off ]
[ & Her Evil Twin Was Running Free ]
[ Free To Burn A Complete Town ]
[ Everything That Was In The Fires Path ]
[ Was Burnt Down ]
[ Nothing Could Stop The Different Fires From Combining
To Make Monster Size Blazes Never Seen Before ]
[ When It Comes To Your Neighborhood ]
[ There Was No Reason To Close The Door ]
[ The Fire Would Just Burn It Up ]
[ Every Plate, Couch Or Cup ]
[ When The Fires Came To The Party To Crash ]
[ The Fires Turned Everything To Ash ]
[ So, Now, You Are Not In Another Hurry ]
[ To Worry ]
[ Like It Or Not The Worrying Begins ]
[ Because The Fire Season Has Been Thrust Upon Us … Again ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(592)▪︎[ The Neighborhood … 7•17•2021 ]
[ When It Is Late @ Night ]
[ What Do You Have To Fight? ]
[ Is It The Bogeyman, Or Just The Dark? ]
[ Are You Afraid Enough To Call, Tony Stark? ]
[ Will Iron Man Come & Save The Day ]
[ Will He Not Chase, The Bad People Away? ]
[ What Is The Fright? ]
[ That Is Just Outside Of Your Sight? ]
[ Would Superman Be Able To See It With His X-Ray Eyes? ]
[ Will He Be Able To Pick Up The Tab ]
[ When You Want A Double Whopper, Large Coke & Fries? ]
[ Maybe Aqua Man Can Swim Faster In The Water Than Batman ]
[ Can Drive There On Land ]
[ Faster Than Über Or Lift Could Drive You To Burger King ]
[ To Get You Anything ]
[ Maybe You Will ]
[ Change Your Mind ]
[ & Ask The Incredible Hulk If He Could Give You A Lift To
Burgerville ]
[ Whoever ]
[ Takes You Wherever ]
[ Can Never ]
[ Think That Things Would Ever ]
[ Be The Same Way Forever ]
[ Because That Just Does Not Happen To Humpty Dumpty ]
[ When He Feels So Empty ]
[ He Goes To This Liquor Store That Is So Old ]
[ They Only Sell This One Alcohol Brand ]
[ So He Stocks Up On His Favorite Tequila, Cuervo Gold ]
[ He Goes Home & Makes The House Spotless ]
[ After (3) Years Of Being Homeless ]
[ He Treasures Having One Now, With The Woman Of Wonder ]
[ Her Truth Lasso ]
[ Kept Him From Going Under ]
[ Fred Flintstone & Mrs. Jetson Sometimes Comes By &
Questions Everything ]
[ It Never Matters What They Bring ]
[ Humpty Loves To Hear Mrs. Jetson Sing ]
[ Popeye Can Sometimes Be Seen Walking Down Mulberry
Avenue ]
[ Because @ The End Of The Cul-De-Sac There Is An Incredible
View ]
[ When Mr. Butterfinger & Hershey Chocolate Invites Popeye
In ]
[ They Reminisce About Old Times ]
[ Over A Bottle Of Gin ]
[ Mr. Butterfinger No Longer Takes A Drink Of The Stuff ]
[ Because Hershey Always Had To Get Him Out Of The Bars ]
[ When The Finances Were Rough ]
[ Butterfingers Mom Will Never Let Him Live It Down Because
He Never Waits ]
[ He Could Have Been In On The Beginning Of This Hardly Known
Company Called Microsoft ]
[ So He Gave His (10,000) Shares Back This Guy Named Bill Gates ]
[ He Would Think That His Mom Would Let Bygones Be Bygones ]
[ But She Yells @ Him On The Phone ]
[ Every Time She Reads About The Stocks & Bonds ]
[ It Is Okay With Hershey, Because She More Than Makes Up
The Difference ]
[ Because Of Her Inheritance ]
[ Because Of That, They Have The Biggest House On The Block ]
[ They Throw Get-Togethers ]
[ They Will Come Out & Talk ]
[ With Anybody That Comes By While Out On A Walk ]
[ So Goes The Neighborhood Of Misfits ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(592)▪︎[ The Neighborhood … 7•17•2021 ]
[ When It Is Late @ Night ]
[ What Do You Have To Fight? ]
[ Is It The Bogeyman, Or Just The Dark? ]
[ Are You Afraid Enough To Call Tony Stark? ]
[ Will Iron Man Come & Save The Day ]
[ Will He Not Chase The Bad People Away? ]
[ What Is The Fright? ]
[ That Is Just Outside Of Your Sight? ]
[ Would Superman Be Able To See It With His X-Ray Eyes? ]
[ Will He Be Able To Pick Up The Tab ]
[ When You Want A Double Whopper, Large Coke & Fries? ]
[ Maybe Aqua Man Can Swim Faster In The Water Than Batman ]
[ Can Drive There On Land ]
[ Faster Than Über Or Lift Could Drive You To Burger King ]
[ To Get You Anything ]
[ Maybe You Will ]
[ Change Your Mind ]
[ & Ask The Incredible Hulk If He Could Give You A Lift To
Burgerville ]
[ Whoever ]
[ Takes You Wherever ]
[ Can Never ]
[ Think That Things Would Ever ]
[ Be The Same Way Forever ]
[ Because That Just Does Not Happen To Humpty Dumpty ]
[ When He Feels So Empty ]
[ He Goes To This Liquor Store That Is So Old ]
[ They Only Sell This One Alcohol Brand ]
[ So He Stocks Up On His Favorite Tequila, Cuervo Gold ]
[ He Goes Home & Makes The House Spotless ]
[ After (3) Years Of Being Homeless ]
[ He Treasures Having One Now, With The Woman Of Wonder ]
[ Her Truth Lasso ]
[ Kept Him From Going Under ]
[ Fred Flintstone & Mrs. Jetson Sometimes Comes By &
Questions Everything ]
[ It Never Matters What They Bring ]
[ Humpty Loves To Hear Mrs. Jetson Sing ]
[ Popeye Can Sometimes Be Seen Walking Down Mulberry
Avenue ]
[ Because @ The End Of The Cul-De-Sac There Is An Incredible
View ]
[ When Mr. Butterfinger & Hershey Chocolate Invites Popeye
In ]
[ They Reminisce About Old Times ]
[ Over A Bottle Of Gin ]
[ Mr. Butterfinger No Longer Takes A Drink Of The Stuff ]
[ Because Hershey Always Had To Get Him Out Of The Bars ]
[ When The Finances Were Rough ]
[ Butterfingers Mom Will Never Let Him Live It Down Because
He Never Waits ]
[ He Could Have Been In On The Beginning Of This Hardly Known
Company Called Microsoft ]
[ So He Gave His (10,000) Shares Back This Guy Named Bill Gates ]
[ He Would Think That His Mom Would Let Bygones Be Bygones ]
[ But She Yells @ Him On The Phone ]
[ Every Time She Reads About The Stocks & Bonds ]
[ It Is Okay With Hershey, Because She More Than Makes Up
The Difference ]
[ Because Of Her Inheritance ]
[ Because Of That, They Have The Biggest House On The Block ]
[ They Throw Get-Togethers ]
[ They Will Come Out & Talk ]
[ With Anybody That Comes By While Out On A Walk ]
[ So Goes The Neighborhood Of Misfits ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(600)▪︎[ Do You? … 7•20•2021 ]
[ Do You Still Have The Skill & Drive To Continue To Write? ]
[ Do You Still Want To Put Up A Fight? ]
[ Against The Negativity That Comes Into Your Brain? ]
[ Even Though It Comes In With The Speed Of A Freight
Train? ]
[ Sometimes The Negative Thoughts, Out Number The Positive
Ones ]
[ Then The Negative Thoughts Feels Like They Weigh A Ton ]
[ Pushing & Pushing On The Restraints & The Protective Wall ]
[ That Holds The Negative Thoughts From Encompassing
It All ]
[ Positive Thoughts & Memories Is What You Seek ]
[ Than You’ll Have Wonderful Words To Speak ]
[ Trying To Make These Last Minutes Make Sense ]
[ Trying To Live Your Last Minutes Not Being Tense ]
[ In Your World, It Is Not All About The Almighty Dollar ]
[ It Is Not About The Sports Cars & Expensive Clothes ]
[ So You Can Walk Around Poppin’ Your Collar ]
[ When You Grow Older, You Hope That You Don’t Need To
Resort To Mumbling ]
[ You Hope You Witness Random Acts Of Kindness From
Strangers That Are Humbling ]
[ So You Don’t Spend Your Remaining Years On Earth
Grumbling ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(599)▪︎[ What In The Life … 7•20•2021 ]
[ You Have Spent Your Whole Life Trying To Figure Out
What You Want Out Of Life ]
[ Everyday, You Have Looked For That Light ]
[ To Be A Guide ]
[ Many People Cannot Accept, Or See ]
[ The Hypocrisy ]
[ Of Other People’s Lives, Or Even Their Own ]
[ Because, In The Dead Of The Night, When They Wake ]
[ They Then See, That They Are In Fact, All Alone ]
[ It Is Critical ]
[ To See ]
[ How Hypocritical ]
[ Others Can Be ]
[ Most People Can Ever See Themselves In Others ]
[ When They Make Mistakes ]
[ They Think That They Can Hide Amongst Their Sisters &
Brothers ]
[ When They See That Others Might Have Some Success ]
[ They Forget About Their Own Mess ]
[ & Spend To Excess ]
[ On Credit Cards With High Interest Rates ]
[ Hoping Some Day ]
[ That Their Debts Magically Dissipates ]
[ Hoping To Be Fortuitous In Life ]
[ Hoping To Be Lucky In Love ]
[ When Or If They Find Their Husband Or Wife ]
[ Then Hoping, That They Hit Every Green Light On The
Road ]
[ Going To & From, Their Happy Abode ]
[ Then Finding That Such Luck Does Not Even Exist ]
[ No Matter How Much They Insist ]
[ That It Does, Or Doesn’t ]
[ Because If There Was ]
[ They Will Quickly Find, That There Wasn’t ]
[ People Have A Hard Time Looking Within ]
[ They Never Want To Look In The Mirror & See Their Own
Sin ]
[ When They Peer Deeply In Their Own Eyes ]
[ Do They See Their Lies? ]
[ That They Have Told To Themselves? ]
[ Or Told Someone Else? ]
[ I Bet They Won’t ]
[ I Bet They Don’t ]
[ So They Quickly Put The Handheld Mirror Down ]
[ Then They Look Around ]
[ Silence Is What They Hear ]
[ Because Nobody Is Near ]
[ So … No Harm, No Foul ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(688)▪︎[ A Total Surprise … 8•19•2021 ]
[ If You Lay Really Still, Will Life Pass You By? ]
[ If You Were Told Yes ]
[ Would They Be Telling You A Lie? ]
[ Maybe All Of The Lies & Pain ]
[ That Comes Back Again & Again ]
[ Are Because Of How You Think ]
[ & Because Of How Much You Drink
[ Sometimes Others Have Had A Hunch ]
[ That You Drink To Much ]
[ When You Take A (3) Hour Lunch ]
[ Do You Ever Think That You Need To Reign That In? ]
[ You Have So Much To Lose ]
[ If You Let Alcohol Win ]
[ You Can’t Possibly Like Those Mornings When You Wake ]
[ With A Hangover & A Terrible Headache ]
[ That You Can’t Shake All Day ]
[ You Know When It Comes To Drinking ]
[ You Have To Pay While You Play ]
[ You Seem To Be Drinking More & More During Your
Nights ]
[ & You Are Starting More Fights ]
[ @ Home & In The Bars ]
[ You Have Already Wrecked Your (3) Cars ]
[ How Come? ]
[ You Have Been Drinking Until You Go Numb? ]
[ Is There Something That You Are Running From? ]
[ So You Point To This Big Duffel Bag ]
[ You Finally Admit ]
[ That On Weekends You Dress In Drag ]
[ There Is Silence In The Whole Room ]
[ That Would NOT Have Beeen Something That Anybody Would
Have Assumed ]
[ Then Someone Says …
( OKAY, COOL! WHAT’S FOR DINNER?) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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