[ How Would I Describe ( FAMILY ) That Doesn’t Drop You With A
A Thud ]
[ It’s What You Make ]
[ & Every Member Does Not Always Have To Be Blood ]
[ A Family Member Could Be A Longtime Friend Who Always Had
Their Place Set ]
[ A Family Member Could Also Be This Great Person That You
Just Met ]
[ An Automatic Place @ The Table For Blood Relatives Is Not
Something They Get ]
[ & Those Are The People That Are The Most Shocked, I Bet ]
[ The First 16 Years Of My Life I Grew Up Side-By-Side With My
Bio Older Sister ]
[ But Then Drugs & Alcohol ]
[ Turned Her Into A Category (5) Tornado Twister ]
[ Wrecking Havoc Of Everything In Her Path ]
[ She Did This Just As Well ]
[ As She Used To Solve Problems In Math ]
[ She Used To Be The Good Child ]
[ With So Little Restraints ]
[ She Decided To Turn Wild ]
[ I Used To Be The Troubled One ]
[ I Did Not Want To Spend My Time Studying ]
[ I Wanted To Play Sports & Have Fun ]
[ We Were Both Given The Same Chances ]
[ She Decided To Spend Her Weekends Smoking & Drinking ]
[ While I Enjoyed Going To The School Dances ]
[ She Used To Be Strong ]
[ I Wonder ]
[ If She Ever Wonders Where It All Went Wrong ]
[ Does She? ]
[ Or Doesn’t She? ]
[ I Wonder, What That Answer Would Be ]
[ Either Way, I Have Put That Question Behind Me ]
[ While I Was Competing In Sports ]
[ She Was Off Drinking ]
[ & Doing Snorts ]
[ She Would Be Telling Me Lies ]
[ If She Said That It Wasn’t Because Of Those Bad Boy Guys ]
[ That Lived Down The Street ]
[ Weren’t Those The Ones That She Snuck Out In The Middle Of
The Night To Meet ]
[ Instead Of Spending The Last 25 Years Working On A
Relationship With My Wife ]
[ I Could Have Just As Easily Been Sucked Into That Life ]
[ Anybody Could Have ]
[ But … Just Anybody Would Have? ]
[ In My Younger Years, I Tried A Thing Or (2) ]
[ But Then I Told Myself That Wasn’t Anything That I No Longer
Wanted To Do ]
[ I Had Times When I Sunk ]
[ I Had Times When I Got In A Funk ]
[ But I Did Not Turn Those Times Into Being A Drunk ]
[ I Have Survived The Worst Of Times ]
[ I Have Survived After Being Down To My Last Dime ]
[ Right Now, I Have Been Blessed With The Ability To Write Stories
That Rhyme ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(602)▪︎[ Who Does She … ? … 7•22•2021 ]
[ Yes, She’s The Bitch, She’s The Bitch ]
[ She’s The Bitch That Wears Black ]
[ She’s Stone Cold Sober ]
[ As A Heart Attack ]
[ When She Walks Around She Sets Down Clues ]
[ That In Her Eyes ]
[ That Makes Her Much Better Than You ]
[ In Her Mind ]
[ She Is Of The Better Kind ]
[ She Is So Dangerous ]
[ Because Her Kind Is So Cancerous ]
[ It’s The Way That She Grooves ]
[ That Makes The Transiton Go Really Smooth ]
[ & With Her Sultry Moves ]
[ She’s Got Nothing To Prove ]
[ Around Every Blind Corner ]
[ She Runs For The Border ]
[ She’s Not Pretty Enough For Pop ]
[ & She’s Not Cool Enough For Indie Rock ]
[ That’s Why Her Everyday Shoes ]
[ Has Her Singing The Blues ]
[ But Now She Knows ]
[ That She Can’t Go Where The Hip People Goes ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(604)▪︎[ Memories … 7•22•2021 ]
[ I Want To Grow Old With Memories That Make Me
Smile ]
[ I Don’t Want My Memories To Last Only For Awhile ]
[ I Remember My Wedding Day ]
[ Like It Was Yesterday ]
[ Seeing My Beautiful Bride ]
[ Standing Up On The Alter ]
[ Getting Me To Tear Up & Making My Smile Get So Wide ]
[ Seeing Friends That Are In My Life & ]
[ & Were Before I Met My Wife ]
[ Our Time In Jamaica, The Blue Water & The White Sand ]
[ Being Carefree By Not Wearing A Watch ]
[ Making Zero Time Demands ]
[ My Time With My Wife When It Was Just Us Two ]
[ Driving Around Washington For Two Days ]
[ Because We Had No Plans For Anything To Do ]
[ Being In Your Parents Kitchen To Overhear ( THAT
STARTED TRYING ) ]
[ Having The Nurse Put Our Newborn Son In My Arms
& I Wouldn’t Stop Crying ]
[ Then Being @ Camp Attitude & Getting On A Horse @
The Same Time As My Son ]
[ It Was A Big Deal To Even Get On One ]
[ That Was When B.D. Came Running To Me Yelling
( YOU DID IT! YOU DID IT! ) ]
[ Yes, I Did Do It ]
[ I Remember Getting Bucked Off One Horse & Then Almost
Getting In The Head ]
[ That Was When I Was About (5) Years Old @ A Foster
Home ]
[ That Was The Night One Of The Parent’s Son Wanted
Me Dead ]
[ I Remember Barbara Saying So Long ]
[ When She Forced Me To Go Live With Don ]
[ I Remember That Year & A ½ Were Our Best Times, Ever ]
[ Once We Moved With Mary & Kenny ]
[ He Turned Into The Same Passive/Aggressive Prick That
I Sadly Remembered ]
[ I Have Good Memories Meeting Nicole In The Fred Meyer’s
Employee Break Room ]
[ In Under (2) Years Later I Became Her Groom ]
[ I Wish That I Had Memories Of When I Lived In Hawaii ]
[ I Guess My Mind Won’t Let Me Remember My Mom
Abusing Me Daily ]
[ Because Of My Horrible Mother ]
[ I Was Separated From My Brother ]
[ I Have No Memories Of My Dad Shooting Himself ]
[ In Front Of Me & My Sister ]
[ After Trying To Take The Life Of Someone Else ]
[ Memories Can Come Back In A Flood ]
[ Trying To Guess One Up ]
[ Would Be A Dud ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(605)▪︎[ Calmer Atmosphere … 7•22•2021 ]
[ I Love It That I Can Enter EVERY Room In The House
With Just A Turn Of The Doorknob ]
[ As Sure As Some People In My Life Still Calling Me
Bob ]
[ No More Keypad Combinations ]
[ Needed ]
[ No More Hesitations ]
[ Heeded ]
[ If Company Is Around, I Will Lock My Room ]
[ But There Will Be No Reason To Lock My Bathroom ]
[ Unless The Dark Force Beckons Our Hall ]
[ But, First He Must Call ]
[ It Is Very Clear ]
[ @ Least It Should Be To Him ]
[ That He MUST Have Permission To Even Come Here ]
[ I Never, Ever Want To Live Under The Same Roof ]
[ Every Month I Will Need Physical Proof ]
[ That He Will Pay Another Month’s Rent ]
[ He Should Never Say That It Had Been Spent ]
[ If He Needs (2) Or Even (3) Jobs To Get By ]
[ He Needs To Be One Hella Busy Guy ]
[ If He Has To Work All Day, Everyday ]
[ Then, That’s Okay ]
[ As Far As I Am Concerned ]
[ He Had (3) Or (4) Years Worth Of ABC’s ]
[ & He Never Learned ]
[ Not One Lesson In Life ]
[ So Who Suffered? ]
[ Me & My Wife ]
[ I Would Be The Target Of His Hate ]
[ Last August Or September I Had Enough ]
[ & Yelled ( CHECKMATE ) ]
[ He Poked The Bear, One Too Many Times ]
[ He Stole One Too Many Dimes ]
[ Him & I Always Clashed ]
[ The Father – Son Connection Was Bashed ]
[ Bashed Down To Paste ]
[ It Never Was Made To Taste ]
[ If It Was, It Was Fermented ]
[ About (6) Years Ago He Really Went Demented ]
[ In A Huge Way ]
[ Our Future Connection Was Like The Worst Car In An
Accident ]
[ The One That Was Completely Dented ]
[ I Want Our Empty Nest Home ]
[ Left Alone ]
[ All That I Care ]
[ About ]
[ Is That I Will Stay Here & He Will Stay Over There! ]
[ Especially If He Wants To Pout ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(601)▪︎[ What A Horrible Visit … 7•21•2021 ]
[ This Home Visit Was A Disaster From The Get-Go ]
[ The When, Was What We Did Not Know ]
[ So … ]
[ It Was Within The First (2) Hours ]
[ When Everything Went Sour ]
[ Then His Actions & Words Reminded His Mom About Why
He Was Moved ]
[ He Came Here To Knock Me Out Of My Groove ]
[ When He Turned Into A Problem ]
[ I Would Not Let Him! ]
[ To Continue On This Path ]
[ He Was Making As Much Sense ]
[ As Trigonometry Math ]
[ When He Demanded That We Take Him Home ]
[ My Reaction Was Soon To Be Shown ]
[ I Told Him ( OKAY, LET’s GO! ) ]
[ He Counted On Me Saying ( NO! ) ]
[ The Way That I Was In The Past ]
[ I Knew Could Not Last ]
[ He Used To Leave Footprints On My Back ]
[ A Straight, Solid Spine Is What I Lacked ]
[ So Into My Life Came This Strong Willed, Stubborn & No
Nonsense Caregiver For Me ]
[ She Really Taught Me How Things SHOULD Be ]
[ One Time Her Grandson Stole Her Credit Card ]
[ She Did Not Just Dismiss It Because He Was A Kid ]
[ No, She Let The Justice System Come Down On Him,
Really Hard ]
[ I Listened & Learned From This Woman Who Seemed So Wise ]
[ This Woman Does Not Bullshit Through Her Life ]
[ Or Let Anybody Get Over On Her By Telling A Handful Of Lies ]
[ She Taught Me Well ]
[ She Told Me To Use My Five Senses ]
[ Especially My Sense Of Smell ]
[ If A Situation Smells Like Bullshit, It Probably Is ]
[ & To Never Get Bent Out Of Shape ]
[ From An Occasional Diss ]
[ But B.D. Loved To Test My Patience To No End ]
[ Now When He Does Something That I Don’t Like ]
[ I Know Longer Pretend ]
[ That Something He Did Does Not Bother Me Now ]
[ When I React With A ( WOW! ) ]
[ ( WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS RIGHT HERE? ) ]
[ I No Longer React With A Submissive ( OH DEAR ) ]
[ Maybe He Does Not Like This Straight, Strong Spine ]
[ Of Mine ]
[ It Has Been Rough ]
[ Being On The Path, To Becoming This Tough ]
[ When I Kept Saying That It Was Time For Him To Say
( BYE-BYE ) ]
[ All He Did Was Sit There & Cry ]
[ When I Went Near Him & Asked ( WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT? ) ]
[ He Would Stop & Shout ]
[ ( I WANT TO HAVE A DO-OVER! ) ]
[ When I Would Say ( THEY DO NOT EXIST IN REAL LIFE )
He Would Pout ]
[ Then I Said ( THIS IS THE REASON WHY YOU WERE MOVED
OUT! ) ]
[ I Kept Moving Him Towards The Door ]
[ I Kept Telling Him ( DON’t BRING YOUR DRAMA HERE
ANYMORE ) ]
[ He Thought He Could Come Here To Throw A Rock Into Our
Calm Pond ]
[ That, Right Then & There ]
[ Was When His Thinking Went Wrong ]
[ He Quickly Found ]
[ That His Thinking Errors Were Abound ]
[ & One Thing That He Did Not Figure On ]
[ Was That I Would Stand My Ground ]
[ We Were Finally Able To Drive Him Back To Where He Now
Lives ]
[ When He Comes Here ]
[ He Still Has No Respect To Give ]
[ But He Can Now Take His Circus Act On The Road ]
[ Because Of His Temper ]
[ This Visit Was Blown ]
[ Better Luck Next Time ]
[ So Be On The Look-Out For Another Rhyme ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(116)▪︎[ Today’s Youth … 2•7•2020 ]
[ Has This Generations Youth ]
[ Ever Been Honest & Told The Truth? ]
[ Not To Sound Cranky & Mean ]
[ But Those Instances Are Few & Far In-Between ]
[ He Blames Me, The Adult ]
[ For His Behavior ]
[ & Problems That Are All His Fault ]
[ I Didn’t Raise Him To Curse @ Me ]
[ Also, This Is Far From What I Would Have Wanted Him To Be ]
[ After Years & Years Of Using Words To Cut ]
[ I Have Learned When & Where To Keep My Mouth Shut ]
[ Oh I Could Slice Him To Pieces ]
[ In Front Of My Nephews & Nieces ]
[ Where Would That Get Me By Treating Him That Way? ]
[ On That Day? ]
[ All It Would Get Me Is An Attack ]
[ As All Of The Other Adults Would Talk Smack ]
[ & I Would Get Nothing That I Care To Hear From Him ]
[ As He Talked Back ]
[ Day-In & Day-Out ]
[ I Get Nothing From The Words That He Shouts ]
[ His 18th Birthday Can’t Get Here Soon Enough ]
[ I Would Really Like To Say { PACK YOUR STUFF } ]
[ & Then Off! ]
[ & Take Your Bad-Ass Self ]
[ & Go Live With Someone & Somewhere Else ]
[ See How Fast Some Other People Will Force You Out Because
You Are Not Pulling Your Own Weight ]
[ They Will Probably Give You A Specific Date ]
[ To Get Your Act Together & Do What Needs To Be Done ]
[ Because They Are Probably Not Having Much Fun ]
[ Maybe One Of Them ]
[ Might Pull A Gun ]
[ There Will Not Be Someone Picking Up After You ]
[ & Because You’ll Have A Roommate Or Two ]
[ Who’ll Get Tired Doing What You Are Supposed To Do? ]
[ One Of Your Biggest Wishes ]
[ Will Not Be Always Skipping The Responsibility ]
[ When It’s Your Time To Do The Dishes ]
[ Everybody Has Things To Do Around The Apartment
Or House ]
[ You Can’t Always Get Out Of Bed ]
[ & Drop Down On The Couch ]
[ That Definitely Would Test The Bonds Of Friendship By Making
It Wear Thin ]
[ Then Maybe Someday You Will Be Locked Outside ]
[ & No One Will Let You In ]
[ So We Circle Back To Telling You That Your Mouth Always
Gets You Into Trouble ]
[ Well, Reality Is Going To Burst That Big Bubble ]
[ Barney Rubble ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(110)▪︎[ Thoughts Go ‘Round & ‘Round … 2•5•2020 ]
[ Where Do Thoughts Go, When They Are Not
Picked Out & Used? ]
[ Do They Rattle Around The Brain ]
[ Until It Looks Bruised? ]
[ That Does Not Sound Productive ]
[ What If The Brain Erupted? ]
[ From All Of The Abuse? ]
[ Could They Know The Reason ]
[ Or Would They, Make Up An Excuse? ]
[ What Good Reason Would They Have? ]
[ The Eruption, Bruised Almost (1) Half ]
[ Does That Half, Shrivel Up & Die? ]
[ What If The Change ]
[ Would Make Them Lie? ]
[ They Don’t Want To Be One Of Those Guys ]
[ Who Just Walks Around & Tells Lies ]
[ They End Up Being Friendless ]
[ & Then From Despair ]
[ They Become Homeless ]
[ So They’d Be Out Of A Job ]
[ Because They Lied Too Much To The Boss That’s Bob ]
[ Bob, The Boss ]
[ Is Sorry For Their Loss ]
[ But They Can’t Keep On Telling Lies When They Were Lost ]
[ Because Bob Showed Them The Cost ]
[ That Is Why I Play The Host ]
[ Of This Post ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(104)▪︎[ Happy Birthday … 2•4•2020 ]
[ Happy Birthday To One Of The Most Important Women
In My Life ]
[ There’s You & My Beautiful Wife ]
[ Okay, Well I Guess There’s Only Mainly Two ]
[ There’s Nicole & You ]
[ I Hope You Are Having A Great Day ]
[ & That Your Boys Are Treating You Like A Queen In Every
Way ]
[ You Are The Only BFF I’ve Ever Had ]
[ The Amount Of Time Since Our Last Visit ]
[ Makes Me Sad ]
[ But I Always See ]
[ When I’ve Needed, You Have Always Been There For Me ]
[ Thank You For The Days, Weeks, Years Of Being There ]
[ Oh, The Stories We’ve Shared ]
[ I Write This Out Of Love ]
[ & Because I Care ]
[ Happy Birthday, BFF ]
[ Love You ]
[ Robert ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(102)▪︎[ I Thought So … 2•3•2020 ]
[ Have You Ever Found Yourself In A Situation You Can’t
Talk About? ]
[ Does It Make You Pout? ]
[ Or Do You Just Want To Stand Up & Walk Out? ]
[ Does Either One ]
[ Make You Want To Run? ]
[ Because This Is No Longer Fun? ]
[ Who Says That You Have To Find A Way ]
[ & Reasons ]
[ To Stay? ]
[ Nobody Is Forcing Your Hand ]
[ Or Making Demands ]
[ What Will It Take For You To Stay Put? ]
[ Another Inch Or A Foot? ]
[ But Things Like This, Can Make You Sad ]
[ Because, You No Longer Have A Dad ]
[ But That Positional Role Model Left Your Life A Long, Long
Time Ago ]
[ For The Exact Reasons You Never Did Know ]
[ He Made Up Some Big Scenario In His Brain ]
[ That He Told Himself Again & Again ]
[ But What Was There To Gain? ]
[ For Shame, For Shame ]
[ Putting It On Your Shoulders That You Were To Blame ]
[ He Had The Wrong Name ]
[ He Should Have Picked Up A Mirror ]
[ & Looked ]
[ Then Said ( THE PERSON TO BLAME IS RIGHT HERE! ) ]
[ But He Just Couldn’t & Wouldn’t Do That To Himself ]
[ He Only Had The Balls To Blame Someone Else ]
[ What Should You Expect ]
[ Him Feeling Guilty Of Neglect? ]
[ That Would Take Away From His Own Self-Respect ]
[ & Give Him Time To Reflect? ]
[ It All Comes Full Circle Back To You ]
[ What Would You Do? ]
[ Would You Have Reacted The Same Way, Too? ]
[ I’d Have To Say ( NO ) ]
[ I Thought So ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(101)▪︎[ Thankful For Marriage … 2•2•2020 ]
[ Dear Marriage, This Is A Letter Of Thanks ]
[ From One Very Happily Married Man, To You ]
[ There Was Never Enough Money In The Banks ]
[ To Keep Me From Saying ( I DO ) ]
[ @ The Right Time ]
[ In The Right Place ]
[ So I’m Able To Write A Good Rhyme ]
[ Without Feeling Like A Disgrace ]
[ You Need A Licence To Get Married ]
[ But It Doesn’t Come With An Instructional Booklet ]
[ You Shouldn’t Expect To Get Carried ]
[ By Someone That You Just Met ]
[ Your Engagement May Have Been Long ]
[ Or It May Have Been A Few Days ]
[ Did The Time Make Your Bond Strong? ]
[ Did You Find That You Can Love Each Other In All Different
Kinds Of Ways? ]
[ If Something Goes Wrong ]
[ What Incentives Did You Give Your Spouse To Stay? ]
[ Do Unto Others As You Would Want ]
[ Make That Golden Rule A Mantra ]
[ Not A Taunt ]
[ When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Does What? ]
[ They Rise & Shine ]
[ Even Though It Feels Like They’ve Been Kicked In The Gut ]
[ Always Be Kind ]
[ Never End A Compliment With A ( BUT … ) ]
[ That Added ( BUT … ) Ruins The Compliment Just By Itself ]
[ In Effect ]
[ You’re Also Saying That Whatever You’re Complimenting About
Can Be Done Better By Someone Else ]
[ Thank You Marriage For Teaching Me That Love Really Is A
Two-Way Street ]
[ Compromising Does Not Have To Happen Because You’re Weak ]
[ It Shouldn’t Leave You With The Feeling That You’ve Been Beat ]
[ Coming Together As A Couple Is What You Should Seek ]
[ In Dark Times Try To Remember The Good Feelings When You
Just Met ]
[ Aren’t Those The Good Thoughts That You Get ]
[ But Hey, Marriage & Monogamy Is Not For Everyone ]
[ That Lives ]
[ Some People Suck The Fresh Air Out Before Year One ]
[ They Take Instead Of Gives ]
[ There Are Lots Of Reasons Why So Few People Want To
Take That Huge Jump ]
[ Some People Don’t Know How To Get Out Of An Emotional Slump ]
[ Yes, Relationships Have Slumps ]
[ There’s No Such A Thing As A Smooth Road ]
[ That Doesn’t Have Some Bumps ]
[ Sometimes You Will Have To Carry The Load ]
[ While Taking Some Lumps ]
[ Marriage Can Take Your Emotions On The Ride Of Your Life ]
[ One Minute You’re Digging With A Bent Spoon ]
[ The Next Minute You’re Cutting With The Sharpest Knife ]
[ If You Are The Husband ]
[ There Will Be Times When You’ll Lean On Or Carry Your Wife ]
[ Marriage & All That Comes With It Can ]
[ Make You Into A Better & More Complete Man ]
[ [ Like The Grains Of Sand That Runs Through The Hourglass ]
[ Your Life Can Go By You Really Fast ]
[ Just Don’t Let The One That’s Meant To Be ]
[ Go Past ]
[ So Guess Which Way I Lean When It Comes To Marriage As
A Whole ]
[ I Whole Heartedly Believe In It Right Down To My Soul ]
[ That’s How This Square Peg Fits In A Round Hole ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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