(356)▪︎[ What Smells Rotten? … 2024 ]

[ You Pay In Time ]
[ You Pay In Grit ]
[ Whenever Something Costs You A Dime ]
[ You End Up Hating Every Bit ]

  
[ You Pay In Dedication ]
[ You Grind It Out To Get Your Medication ]
[ All You Come Out With Was ]
[ The Feeling Of Aggravation ]

[ Don’t You Have A Trusting Face? ]
[ You Know That You Are Not A Darling Person To Look @ ]
[ Like A Pink, Pretty Bow, Made Of Lace ]
[ Or A Big Buddha, Which Is Bald & Fat ]


[ It Looks Like You Are Settling ]
[ It’s Going To Upset Those That Are Betting ]
[ Soon, Yes Really Soon, That Same Section, Will Be  Sweating ]

[ Sweating Up A Storm ]
[ Making The Back Of The Shirt, All Wet ]
[ This Would Not Be The Norm ]
[ You Would Bet ]

[ It Is A Dog Eat Dog World Out There Beyond, The Front  Door ]
[ Give An Ass An Inch ]
[ They Will Try To Take (5) More ]

[ Just So They Can Walk Away Bragging That They Took ½ A Foot From Right Under Your Nose ]
[ Those ]
[ Are The Type Of Person That You Would Want To Beat With A Garden Hose ]

[ & Then, To Show Them That They Stepped On Your Last Nerve ]
[ You Give Them A Whole New Proverb ]
[ When You Go Around A Blind Curve ]
[ You Kick Them To The Curb ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(001)▪︎[ Learner … 2026 ]

Are you a lifelong learner?

[ Are You A Lifelong Learner? ]

[ You Believe That You Are ]

[ One Thought That You Carry With You Everyday Is, “You Are Never Too Old To Learn Something New” ]

[ If You Keep An Open Mind, You Can Learn Something New Everyday” ]

[ You Never Know Who You Will Meet On Any Particular Day ]

[ You Don’t Know What Kind Of New Tricks You Can Learn By Talking With Someone You Have Never Met ]

[ You Have Many Thoughts That You Have Carried In Your Head All Throughout Your Life ]

Mahalo,

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(448)▪︎[ No Progress … 2025 ]

[ Well, They Say That You Can Buy Roses In Red ]
[ Or You Could Buy Some Tulips In Blue ]
[ Most Of Society Is Really Screwed Up In The Head ]
[ But Some Would Ask, “Well, Who Knew?” ]


[ It Is Actually Good To Say ]
[ “That There Are Many Days” ]
[ “When They Are Not Feeling Okay” ]

[ The Homeless Do Not Care About Simple Flowers ]
[ When They Do Not Have The Power ]
[ To Take Any Showers ]

[ When You Don’t Know How To Express ]
[ Yourself ]
[ Does Success ]
[ Stay On The Garage Shelf? ]

[ How Do You Even Try To Get Out Of Your Own Way ]
[ It Never Happened Yesterday ]
[ Tomorrow Will You Have To Explain ]
[ What Happened Today ]
[ When You Showed Such Obvious Disdain? ]

[ For The Ways That Your Co-Worker Has Tried To Show You ]
[ There Have Been Struggles ]
[ In What She Is Showing You What To Do ]

[ Why Is That? ]
[ Is It Because She Is Showing You That You Must Be Wearing Many Hat’s? ]

[ If You Don’t Know How To Get Rid Of All The Excess ]
[ How Can You Process ]
[ All Of The Progress? ]

[ You Must Show A Thirst ]
[ For Coming In First ]

[ Do You Think That Anyone Will Remember Or Record ]
[ Who Will Come In Second? ]
[ No, People Might Get Bored ]
[ When You Fail To Show Any Momentum ]

[ Slow Is As Slow Does ]
[ Things Won’t Move ]
[ Just Because ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(304)▪︎[ Life … 2026 ]

[ Is Life Just A Matter Of Feet ]
[ & Inches ]
[ Don’t Sit On Your Seat ]  
[ If The Woman Sitting Across From You Flinches ]

[ Then You Try To Remember What Punches Are You Rollin With? ]
[ Do All Of Those Punches Leave You Feeling Kind Of Stiff? ]

[ You Really Hate This Situation ]
[ It Only Causes More Aggravation ]

[ Does It Matter When You Elevate Something ]
[ If You Come Away With Nothing? ]

[ When The Brain Starts Rumbling ]
[ Does That Make The Self-Confidence Start Crumbling? ]

[ What Is Up With That? ]
[ This Should Be Old Hat ]

[ It’s Not Like This Doesn’t Happen All The Time ]
[ If You Only Had A Dime ]
[ For Everyday That You Had A Mountain To Climb ]

[ You Could Live A Comfortable Life ]
[ Now You See If You Had Money ]
[ You Would Also Have A Happy Wife! ]

[ But Now You See ]
[ That Is Not To Be ]
[ Because That Ex-Wife Is Being Greedy! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(001)▪︎[ Chaos … 2026 ]

Is a little chaos actually good for us?

[ A Little Bit Of Chaos ]

[ You Think That You Must Have Some “Yin” To Your “Yang” ]

[ You Must Have Some “Sour” When You Have Some “Sweet” ]

[ A Little Bit Of “Bad” To Go With Your “Good” ]

[ If Everything Is Going “Well” With No Downside, You Will Never Know How Good You’ve Got It ]

[ You Always Want Some Sunlight After A Dark Night ]

Mahalo,

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~

(164)▪︎[ The Day Is Long … 2025 ]

[ The Day Is Long ]
[ But The Night Seems Even Longer ]
[ Whenever You Hear A Sad Song ]
[ Does It Make You Stronger? ]


[ Will It Make You Feel Younger? ]
[ But Without The Hunger? ]

[ Maybe It Will Give You Stronger Willpower ]
[ Minute By Minute ]
[ Stronger By The Hour ]

[ Why Would It Take So Long To Do Its Thing? ]
[ Will Music Make Your Ears Ring? ]
[ When You Come To The Table, What Will You Bring? ]

[ Will You Bring Food Or Something To  Talk About? ]
[ If We’re Eating, That’s One Thing ]
[ But When We Talk, Things Get Loud ]
[ Nobody Wants The Words To Sting ]

[ You Have To Remember That When You Come To The Table, There Are Alot Of Ego’s Involved ]
[ Will Ideas Cause A Problem ]
[ That Words Cannot Solve? ]

[ Whatever Happened To The “Me” Generation? ]
[ Were They Put In Time Out? ]
[ Then Eventually Sent To Segregation? ]

[ The “Me” Generation Only Worried About Themselves ]
[ They Only Benefited From What They Did ]
[ They Would Never Even Take Up Coming To The Aid Of Someone Else ]
[ You Could See That Selfish Trait When They Were Just A Kid ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(308)▪︎[ P.T.S.D. Never Sets You Free … 2026 ]

[ Some Say That When You Have A Good Memory, You Should Enjoy What You’ve Got ]
[ Not ]
[ When P.T.S.D. Puts You On The Spot ]

[ One Different Thing About P.T.S.D. Is How It Makes You Feel ]
[ Because The Flashback’s Seem So Real ]

[ It Can Make You Ill ]
[ Like Unintentionally Rolling Down A Hill ]

[ It Is Not A Sneeze Or A Cough ]
[ That Makes You Feel So Off ]

[ All Of A Sudden Your Sub-Conscience ]
[ Is Playing With Your Brain While You Are Conscious ]

[ In The Day When You Have A Flashback It Feels Like A Really Bad Dream ]
[ The Only Thing That Wakes You Is The Sounds Of Your Own Scream ]

[ These Are Alot Worse Than Your Typical Nightmare ]
[ Nobody Else Cares ]
[ You Are The One Person Who Knows The “Who, What & Where?” ]

[ P.T.S.D. Is Not An Honor Club That You Want To Join ]
[ There Is Not A Single Moment During A Flashback That You Enjoy ]

[ P.T.S.D. Is Not Only From Being Involved In A Military War ]
[ It Can Happen To Anyone, From Shore To Shore ]
[ All It Takes Is Some Kind Involvement In An Incident That Rocked You To Your Core ]

[ Most People Have Never Understood ]
[ In A Small Kind Of Way, That Is Good ]

[ The Ones With P.T.S.D. Can Often Become ]
[ Numb ]
[ To It ]
[ That Doesn’t Make Them Dumb ]
[ About The Least Little Bit ]

[ A Flashback Can Hit You Out Of Nowhere ]
[ & Carry You Back To Somewhere ]
[ To A Place You Wished That You Were Never There ]

[ You Go Back To The Sights, Sounds & Sometimes Smell ]
[ You Know This Is Happening ]
[ When You Start To Not Feel Very Well ]

[ Then Your Mind Goes Off To The Races ]
[ All Of A Sudden You Remember How Many Paces ]
[ You Took ]
[ & All The Faces ]
[ Are As Clear As If You Were Picking Them Out Of A Yearbook ]
[ You Remember All The Shapes & Spaces ]
[ Because That Is Where Your Memory Is Forcing You To Look ]

[ You Are Unable To Look Away ]
[ Because P.T.S.D. Is All In The Mind ]
[ In The Weirdest Way ]
[ Your Memory Will Be Stuck On Rewind ]

[ Then Cognitive Dissonance Is What You Get ]
[ Because Since You Were Young ]
[ You Were Told To Not Forget ]
[ Whenever You Forgot It Really Stung ]

[ Everytime The Flashbacks Make You Cry ]
[ Forgetting Is What You Try ]
[ To Do ]
[ @ This Point & Time You Could Not Even Afford To Buy ]
[ A Clue ]

[ Sometimes P.T.S.D. Can Make You Suicidal ]
[ Or Even Homicidal ]
[ There Is Nothing About P.T.S.D. That’s Comical ]
[ Or Sets You Up To Become Somebody’s Idol ]

[ Some People Really Fall ]
[ & Fail ]
[ They Either Turn To Pills Or Alcohol ]
[ Then Do Something Stupid & Wind Up In Jail ]

[ Then You Feel Like You Are Holding The Dreaded Ace Of Spades ]
[ Because When Your Brain Is In The Clouds ]
[ & You Get Overcome With This Haze ]
[ All You Wish For Is That These Memories Will Fade ]
[ But You Have Come To Know That P.T.S.D. Is Not Just A Faze ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(001)▪︎[ Perspective … 2026 ]

What’s a lesson you’ve learned recently that shifted your perspective?

[ What Has Shifted Your Perspective? ]

[ NOT Everyone Follows Through With Their Vows ]

[ Love Is NOT Ever Lasting ]

[ People Will Change As They Age ]

[ No Matter How Hard You Don’t Want It To, People Drift Apart ]

[ There Will Be Life After A Divorce, You Hope ]

[ Not Every Good  Deed Is Returned ]

[ Some Mean People Rarely Change ]

Mahalo,

~ Lopaka DeVoe ~