[ 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 No Why ]
[ Do Not Smile & Lie ]
[ 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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(1424)▪︎[ Who? … 12•23•2019 ]
[ Do You Know How To See The Clue ]
[ To Be The Best Of … You? ]
[ Not The Person Who People Think That You Should ]
[ Because You Don’t Think That You Would ]
[ Even If You Thought That You Could ]
[ Does Anyone ]
[ Actually Become ]
[ Who, In Their Own Mind, Is Number One? ]
[ It Would Always Take Alot ]
[ Of Thought ]
[ To Come To Terms With What You’ve Actually Got ]
[ Do Things Become Controversial? ]
[ Or Conventional? ]
[ When You Think That You’ve Reached Your Potential? ]
[ When Reaching One’s Potential, It Sure Can Be A Mystery ]
[ Sometimes Getting There ]
[ Is Pure Misery ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1433)▪︎[ It’s Not As It Seems … 12•26•19 ]
[ He Says He’s Smiling Inside ]
[ But Don’t Let That Fool You ]
[ His Insides Had Already Died ]
[ How Could He Just Sit & Smile When He’s In So Much Pain? ]
[ There He Is Going Through The Motions Everyday ]
[ With Nothing To Gain ]
[ Smiling Again & Again ]
[ Is That Committing A Sin? ]
[ Who Loses? ]
[ Who Wins? ]
[ As Good As It Is To Lie ]
[ It Must Have Been Done ]
[ By The Other Guy ]
[ But Why Do They Make A Joke ]
[ About Going Up To That Old Man ]
[ & Giving Him A Poke? ]
[ Poking Another ]
[ Should Not Be A Laughing Matter ]
[ To Someone Else’s Brother ]
[ Your Comments Does Not Bring Any Laughter ]
[ It Is A Bit Unrealistic ]
[ To Say People Are Helping ]
[ When They Are So Antagonistic ]
[ But Where In Life Is The Finish Line? ]
[ Is It Anywhere Close ]
[ To When You Go Dakine? ]
[ So Many People Leave Life As An Unfinished Project ]
[ When They Started Out As Such A Good Prospect ]
[ Some Had A Mid-Life Crisis & Never Bounced Back ]
[ Is That Because They Are In Hiding ]
[ From A Blind Sided Attack? ]
[ When You Finally Have The Answers In Life ]
[ Someone Changes The Questions ]
[ Given To Them By Their Wife ]
[ The Moral Of This Story ]
[ If You Go Through Life Looking For Glory ]
[ Glory Is What You Make ]
[ When You’re In A Giving Mood ]
[ Instead Of Being In The Mood To Take ]
[ Or Being Rude ]
[ & Nobody Needs That Fake ]
[ Attitude ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1434)▪︎[ Fall In Line … 12•27•2019 ]
[ Sometimes There’s Tears Behind Your Closed Eyes ]
[ & There’s Truth Under The Lies ]
[ Figuring Out Which Is Which Can Be Quite The Exercise ]
[ The Answer Can Uncover Quite The Surprise ]
[ But Do We Turn Out To Be Sheep That Just Follow? ]
[ & Have Thoughts That Are Hollow? ]
[ Do We Get In Line In Pairs Of Two? ]
[ Which Just Affects You & The Ewe ]
[ To The Average Sheep, This Is Bliss ]
[ Not Having To Think About That Or This ]
[ Just Fall In Line & March One After The Other ]
[ Where There Is One, There Must Be Another ]
[ & Another One After That ]
[ So Then You Will Know Where To Hang Your Hat ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1414)▪︎[ Just A Thought … 12•19•19 ]
[ As I Lie Here On My King Sized Bed ]
[ I Find That I Have A Thousand Thoughts Going Through
My Head ]
[ I’ve Found That When I’m In Distress ]
[ I Look Inward ]
[ & See Nothing But A Mess ]
[ I Thought That If I Write Myself An Explanation Letter ]
[ In A Matter Of Three Weeks ]
[ I’d Feel Better ]
[ But Has This Type Of Thinking Added Or Subtracted Years
From My Life Span ]
[ Does This Kind Of Thinking Make Me A Better Man? ]
[ Can, Can, Can ]
[ But What Am I Going To Find ]
[ When I Try To Look Into My Mind? ]
[ When I Find Something Profound ]
[ Can I Hang On To It? ]
[ Or Let It Slip Out ]
[ & Let It Crash Onto The Ground? ]
[ No Amount Of Money Can Buy A Second Of Time ]
[ & No Amount Of Words ]
[ Can Always Make A Good Rhyme ]
[ A Good Rhyme Consists Of Many Words Coming Together
With Thought ]
[ You Put Your Heart & Soul Into Each One ]
[ Because You’re Not A Robot ]
[ When Everything Is Written, Said & Done ]
[ You Should Be Thankful With What You’ve Got ]
[ The Finished Product Is Not Always Great ]
[ But 8 Out 10 Is Definitely Worth The Wait ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1413)▪︎ [ Day & Time … 12•18•19 ]
[ Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow ]
[ Does Tomorrow Have Any Time That Today Can
Barrow? ]
[ A Barrowed Minute There ]
[ A Spent Minute Here ]
[ Does Tomorrow Have Any Time That It Could Spare? ]
[ But How Do You Barrow Time From A Day That
Has Not Started? ]
[ When Days Become Yesterday ]
[ Do We Call Them The Dearly Departed? ]
[ If Tomorrow I Plan On Writing A Rhyme ]
[ But Today I’m Thinking About It ]
[ Am I On Barrowed Time? ]
[ If I Am By Chance Wasting Today ]
[ Do I Search Out Tomorrow, Or Who I Can Pay? ]
[ How Exactly Does Someone Get Paid For Your
Time By Someone Else? ]
[ Did They Have Some Extra Time Sitting Idle On A
Closet Shelf? ]
[ I Know That Spent Time Could Go Either Way ]
[ You Can Use That Time During The Night ]
[ Or During The Day ]
[ But Do You Have To Put Up A Fight ]
[ To Spend It Your Way? ]
[ Today Has A Tomorrow & A Yesterday ]
[ Do You Ever Wish You Could Be In A Vortex ]
[ Where Time Would Just Sit Still & Stay? ]
[ Time Standing Still Is Not Always A Good Thing ]
[ You Never Know What Kinds Of Problems Extra
Time Can Bring ]
[ What If You Were Having A Bad Time When You
Got Caught Up With Time Standing Still?
[ Would You Have Time To Get Ill? ]
[ Maybe You’d Get Saved When Jack Followed Jill ]
[ & Followed The Yellow-Brick-Road Past The
Gingerbread House ]
[ This Would Have Worked Out Okay ]
[ If Only Jill Was Jack’s Spouse ]
[ Time Drags By When You’re Trying To Watch Water Boil ]
[ Does It Remain Slow When Pouring Oil? ]
[ So Today Would Be Tomorrow’s Day Before ]
[ What Day Or Time, Will It Be If You Counted Back By Four? ]
[ Would It Be Like Walking Through Three Tunnels
Until You Got To The Main Door? ]
[ When Time Flies By ]
[ You Barely Have Time To Say, Hello ]
[ But When You Turn Around, To Say ( GOODBYE ) ]
[ You’ll Find That Chasing Time Is One Heck-Of-A Ride ]
[ Is That What Is Meant By Having Time On Your Side? ]
[ One Thing That You Should Find ]
[ & That Is Time Has Never Lied ]
[ Be It Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Or Somewhere
In The Past ]
[ Time Really Doesn’t Stand Still ]
[ So Make Some Memories That Last ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1416)▪︎[ All The Way To The End … 12•19•19 ]
[ Well, That Kind Of Does It, Closes A Chapter On A Very
Painful Part Of Your Life ]
[ Does That Mean That The Outlook On The Future
Look Bright? ]
[ You Never Thought It Would Go The Way That This Finally
Played Out ]
[ But You Also Didn’t Know What Wills Were All About ]
[ @ One Point In Your Life Barbara Told You That
Were In Hers ]
[ You Didn’t Really Question That @ The Time ]
[ But Through This Silence You Were Not All That Sure ]
[ Now You’re Sure & You Are Not ]
[ It Told You So In A Letter That You Just Got ]
[ It Plainly Stated That She Willed Absolutely Nothing To You ]
[ It Was There In Plain English So You Did Not
Need A Clue ]
[ You Guess She Wound Up Hating You More & More As The Years
Dragged On ]
[ She Probably Thought She Could Stick It In
Your Back ]
[ Even After She’s Gone ]
[ When She Told You To Get Out Of Her Life She Really Meant
It THROUGH The Very End ]
[ She Was So Rigid With Her Words ]
[ I Knew She Wouldn’t Bend ]
[ For People Who Are Mild & Meek ]
[ To Her, Forgiveness Was Done By The Weak ]
[ & She Was Anything But That ]
[ Just Like She Disliked Dogs ]
[ & Loved Her Cats ]
[ Her Cats Could Bring Her Home Dead Rats & She Would Never
Disown Them ]
[ She Never Thought Of Reconciling With Her Only Son Down In Salem ]
[ You Truly Wish She Lived Her Last Minutes Regretting What She
Did & Said ]
[ You
Hope She Had A Clear Recollection Of Your Last Phone Call
Running Over & Over In Her Head ]
[ Because Satan Was Waiting For Her @ The Door For When She Would
Finally Be Dead ]
[ Satan Was Waving @ Her Saying ( COME HERE, COME HERE ) ]
[ ( I KNOW YOU ONLY DRINK WINE, BUT WE’ll FORCE YOU TO
DRINK BEER! ) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1423)▪︎[ Understanding … 12•23•19 ]
[ There Seems To Be Times When We Need To Talk ]
[ But The Chances To To Do That Never Come ]
[ Whenever You Threaten That You’re Going To Walk ]
[ Those Are The Times When We Should Be The Most Understanding ]
[ But We’re Not ]
[ When We Get So Demanding ]
[ Our Temper Goes From Cold To Hot ]
[ When Things Get So Confusing ]
[ & Complicated ]
[ The Way We’re Using ]
[ Each Other ]
[ Seems To Be Duplicated ]
[ How Do We Stop? ]
[ Without Letting The Ball Drop? ]
[ Quite Often We Let Our Pride Get In The Way ]
[ That’s When We Look Behind Us ]
[ On What Happened The Other Day ]
[ What Keeps Kicking Our Ass ]
[ Is That We Can’t Get Away From Our Past ]
[ & Just When We Think We Got A Pass ]
[ The Good Feelings & Times Don’t Last ]
[ Just When We Know What To Say ]
[ We Lose Our Way ]
[ Do We Talk Or Write? ]
[ Do Our Talks Need To Lead To Another Fight? ]
[ How Come We’ve Become So Weak? ]
[ When We Don’t Remember Wrong From Right? ]
[ Have We Poisoned Our Minds ]
[ So Far ]
[ That We Only Have Thoughts That Are Kind ]
[ When We’re Drinking In A Bar? ]
[ Alcohol Fueled Courage & Soft Heart ]
[ Often Doesn’t Discourage ]
[ Someone To Play The Brave Part ]
[ But Sometimes, Many Times, Alcohol Leads To Violence ]
[ Whenever You Put Your Hands On A Loved One ]
[ That Leads To Withdrawals & Silence ]
[ So How Do You Get This Turned Around & Not So Upside
Down? ]
[ That’s When You Get Right Side Up ]
[ & Pick Yourself Up Off Of The Ground ]
[ So That’s When You Go All In ]
[ & Look @ Each Other Again & Again ]
[ & Agree On When To Begin ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1424)▪︎[ Who? … 12•23•19 ]
[ Do You Know How To See The Clue ]
[ To Be The Best Of … You? ]
[ Not The Person Who People Think That You Should ]
[ Because You Don’t Think That You Would ]
[ Even If You Thought That You Could ]
[ Does Anyone ]
[ Actually Become ]
[ Who, In Their Own Mind, Is Number One? ]
[ It Would Always Take Alot ]
[ Of Thought ]
[ To Come To Terms With What You’ve Actually Got ]
[ Do Things Become Controversial ]
[ Or Conventional ]
[ When You Think That You’ve Reached Your Potential? ]
[ When Reaching One’s Potential, It Sure Can Be A Mystery ]
[ Sometimes Getting There ]
[ Is Pure Misery ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(1430)▪︎[ Better Each Day … 12•25•19 ]
[ Why Do You Take A Chance & Write Out Your Thoughts? ]
[ Why Do You Attempt To Distinguish Yourself @ Being Different Than A Bunch Of Robots? ]
[ Do Robots Always Have A Story To Tell? ]
[ Sometimes You Just Want To Let Loose & Yell ]
[ Do You Have More Feelings Than A Robot Does? ]
[ If It’s There, It’s There ]
[ If It Were, It Was ]
[ How Do You Differenciate Yourself From Others? ]
[ In Another Life ]
[ Do You Have More Sisters & Brothers? ]
[ You Don’t Want Another Useless, Throwaway Mother ]
[ More Brothers You Want, But More Sisters You Don’t ]
[ If It’s In A Fantasy Land That’s A Maybe ]
[ But In Real Life You Won’t ]
[ The Two Females You Grew Up With Were/Are/Made Horrible
Sisters ]
[ They Left Your Life ]
[ Acting Like Tornado Twisters ]
[ They Wreck Havoc With Everything They Touch ]
[ Their Hatred Towards You Was A Little Bit Too Much ]
[ For You To Be Around ]
[ It Seems That If They Had Their Way ]
[ They’d Knock You To The Ground ]
[ But Like Always, You Will Get Up EVERY SINGLE Time ]
[ & You Would Collect Your Wits ]
[ & Write Out Another Rhyme ]
[ You Would Never Let The Venom They Spewed Ruin The Rest Of Your Life ]
[ You Have Great In-Laws ]
[ & A Great Child & Wife ]
[ As You Grow Older ]
[ You Want To Grow Better ]
[ Not Colder ]
[ With Your Writings, There Is Always Room For Improvement ]
[ You Just Don’t Want To Grow Stagnant ]
[ Smarter, Yes ]
[ Not Dormant Or Ignorant ]
[ & Use This God-Given Gift As Long As You Possibly Can ]
[ Then Turn Out To Be A Positive, Kind Man ]
[ & Not Another ]
[ Other ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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