[ Now A Days When You Go To Town ]
[ You Really Have To Watch What You Say ]
[ When Someone Asks ( WHAT ARE YOUR PRO-NOUNS? ) ]
[ What Are My Pro-Nouns I Am Asked ]
[ By Someone Wearing A Mask ]
[ I Look @ Them & Say ( DO YOU HAVE THE NERVE … ) ]
[ ( TO ASK ME ABOUT MY USE OF VERBS? ) ]
[ I Say That I Am Way In The Dark ]
[ Trying To Figure Out Whether You Are A Marcia Or A
Mark ]
[ When Someone That Used To Be Someone’s Brother ]
[ Now Marks That They Are Now An ( OTHER ) ]
[ Confuses Me To No End ]
[ It Is None Of My Business About Who Shares Your Bed ]
[ But When Others Really Try To Make It My Business I
Say ( PLEASE, DON’t ) ]
[ Because If You Think That I Will Be Curious ]
[ I Have To Strongly Say ( UMM, I BET I WON’t ) ]
[ I Am Not That Curious About Who You Lay Down With
@ Night ]
[ Just Like It Is None Of Your Business Whom I Am With
When I Turn Off The Light )
[ I Do Not Object To Who Or How Often ]
[ The Only Thing That Will Concern Me Is If It Involves
Young Children ]
[ That Is When & Where The Line Should Be Drawn ]
[ No Child Deserves To Be Played With Like Some Chess
Pawn ]
[ They Legally Cannot Give Consent ]
[ They Never Should Be Given Away By One Of Their Parents ]
[ Or Be Used By One ]
[ When Or If I Hear That, Then I’m Done ]
[ Never Would Want To Hear Another Word ]
[ Then I Would Have To Let The Police Know What I Had
Just Heard ]
[ So Let’s Not Go There ]
[ That Is One Thing That I Do Not Want You To Share ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(599)▪︎[ What In 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 Never 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 ]
(595)▪︎[ I Hope They Think … 7•18•2021 ]
[ It Is Really Tough Not Sharing My High’s & Low’s ]
[ Of My Blog ]
[ With People That I Personally Know ]
[ A Few Stories Have Been Read, Liked & Commented On By Two
People That Are Physically In My Life ]
[ One Is A Good Friend ]
[ The Other Is My Wife ]
[ Besides A Few, Most Of My Likes ]
[ Comes From Others That Write ]
[ I Am Overjoyed By That Point ]
[ When Other Writers Take The Time ]
[ To Read A Rhyme ]
[ & I Hope That I Don’t Disappoint ]
[ I Cannot Appeal To Everyone, That Stops By ]
[ I Do Write Stories Where I Ask ( WHY? ) ]
[ Some Say That Asking ( WHY? ) Is A Conversation Stopper ]
[ I Don’t Want It To Be An Idea Dropper ]
[ In A Blink ]
[ I Want To Ask Others To Think ]
[ Not Drive The Reader To Drink ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(594)▪︎[ Anything Lately? … 7•18•2021 ]
[ How Do You Go Through Life & Not Add To The Chaos
Of It All? ]
[ Then When You Come To That Wall ]
[ You Turn Around & Lean On It ]
[ Maybe Even Pull Up A Chair & Sit ]
[ Relax, For A Minute Or Two ]
[ It Is Not What You Did That Matters ]
[ It Is What You Will Currently Do ]
[ It Is A ( WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY ) ]
[ Kind Of Society ]
[ Because What You Did ]
[ Is Behind You, Under Your Lid ]
[ If You Want Get Known ]
[ People Have Got To Be Shown ]
[ What Worth Is ]
[ On A Day-To-Day Basis ]
[ Whatever Has Been Done Last ]
[ Has Fast ]
[ Been Placed In The Past ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(593)▪︎[ Worth The Effort … 7•18•2021 ]
[ Some Say, That Life Chooses You ]
[ It Is Because Of Who You Are ]
[ Not Because Of What You Do ]
[ Is It Because Of Your Gene Pool? ]
[ Or Because You Make Others Feel Good ]
[ & Not Look Like A Fool ]
[ It Is Quite To The Contrary, Says He ]
[ It Is How Things Actually Are ]
[ & How Things Can Be ]
[ If Your Eyes Are Always Buried In A Book ]
[ How Does That Look? ]
[ Maybe That Is What Life Is All About ]
[ It Does Not Mean How Loud You Can Get ]
[ It Could Mean Coming To The Point Of Time When You Lose
All Doubt ]
[ & As You Grow Older ]
[ It Could Be By The Eye Of The Beholder ]
[ It Is ALL Common Sense ]
[ That Keep Others From Riding The Fence ]
[ It Costs Dollars & Cents ]
[ To Fix Those Scratches & Dents ]
[ Fender ]
[ Benders ]
[ Are Not Just That ]
[ Just Like Skinny People Are A Meal Away From Being Fat ]
[ A Roll Of Cookies Here Or There ]
[ Sometimes No Longer Having A Penchant To Even Share ]
[ Just Eating One After Another ]
[ Not Even Saving One For Their Mother ]
[ Sometimes What Is In Front Of Your Eyes ]
[ Have Been Misconceptions & Lies ]
[ Not One Single Person Telling You The Truth ]
[ Not Being Able To Go To The Dentist To Pull Your Bad Tooth ]
[ Sometimes You Can See ]
[ How Some People Can Be ]
[ Like A Deep Cavity ]
[ Eating Away @ The Eanamel Of The Base ]
[ Lying To People In Front Of Their Face ]
[ When The Base Is Gone ]
[ People Move On ]
[ When It Is Right ]
[ It Is Worth The Effort ]
[ That Is Put Into The Fight ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(127)▪︎[ What Happened? … 2•9•2020 ]
[ What Is This Downside, That You Speak Of? ]
[ Are They Looking In The Wrong Places ]
[ For Their True Love? ]
[ Things Where They Live Cannot Be All That Bad ]
[ Maybe They Should Just Concentrate On Being
The Best Dad ]
[ They Can Be ]
[ Are They Really Talking Like That To Me? ]
[ Because They Try To Put Their Best Foot Forward Every Minute
Of The Day ]
[ But @ Times Things Just Don’t Swing Their Way ]
[ Sometimes They Feel That They Have Paid Their Dues ]
[ But Whenever They Watch T.V. ]
[ It Seems That They Never SawThe Clues ]
[ Then They Look @ Life Through Their Tired Eyes ]
[ & See That They Don’t Really Want To Be One Of Those
Ordinary Guys ]
[ They See That They Stress Themselves To Reach To Have Those
American Dreams ]
[ But In The Middle Of The Night They Are Startled Awake ]
[ By Their Own Screams ]
[ The Morning Comes & They Feel Like They Never Got Any
Sleep ]
[ In The Afternoons When They Need To Pay The Bills ]
[ They Do Nothing But Weep ]
[ They Open Their Checkbooks Wondering What Is There ]
[ Then All They Do Is Look @ The Negative Number ]
[ & Silently Stare ]
[ It’s The First Week Of The Month & They Wonder Where It
Went ]
[ They Look @ Their Empty Wallet ]
[ & Can’t Remember Where It All Was Spent ]
[ Are They Leaning Towards Giving An Excuse ]
[ Or Do They Have A Good Reason ]
[ So They Won’t Be Accused ]
[ Of Spending It All ]
[ Doing On-Line Betting ]
[ & Drinking Alcohol ]
[ Do They Get On Their Knees Went They Get Home ]
[ Well Some Things Will Never Be Known ]
[ Like Where Their Monthly Paycheck Was Blown ]
[ The Next First Of The The Month ]
[ Can’t Come Soon Enough ]
[ Then The Nightmare Starts All Over Again ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(125)▪︎[ 2 O’Clock In The A.M. … 2•9•2020 ]
[ It’s Two O’clock In The Morning & All Is Not Well ]
[ When I Walked In The Room ]
[ But I Couldn’t Quite Figure Out The Smell ]
[ It Was Like Pavlov’s Dog ]
[ Ringing The Bell ]
[ Is The Smell Supposed To Bother Me? ]
[ Or Make Me Wonder ]
[ What Could This Be? ]
[ Where Is It Coming From? ]
[ Are These Questions Dumb? ]
[ If They Are Not ]
[ Why Are They Making Me Numb? ]
[ I Try To Think About Which Direction I Was Supposed To Go ]
[ How Will I Know? ]
[ When Will The Signs Tell Me That I’m Headed In The Right Direction? ]
[ Would I Have To Make Any Corrections ]
[ To Make The Right Connections? ]
[ But Is This Going To Be The Norm? ]
[ Of Having The Feeling Like I’m Headed Into A Category (4) Storm? ]
[ The Winds From The Tornado Are Lifting Everything Up Off Of The
Ground ]
[ & Tossing Them All Around ]
[ Will Everything Be Eventually Found? ]
[ It Seems To Be Insightful ]
[ When You’re Doubtful ]
[ But That’s Saying A Mouthful ]
[ When You Let Someone Close To You ]
[ Know That They’re Untruthful ]
[ How Does One Rebound From Such A Disaster? ]
[ What Needs To Be Done After? ]
[ Can Some Of It Wait? ]
[ Until Tomorrow Morning After Eight? ]
[ You Quickly Find Out That It Can’t ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(105)▪︎[ Giving Up … 2•4•2020 ]
[ Right Now Some People Feel Like They’re In The Fight Of
Their Life ]
[ It’s Not Because Of A Stranger With A Knife ]
[ It’s From Fighting The Urge To Not Walk Towards The Bright ]
[ Shining Light ]
[ But It’s So Pretty ]
[ & The Warmth From The Beam ]
[ Feels Like A Soft Kitty ]
[ But What’s On The Other Side? ]
[ The Only Ones That Know ]
[ Have Gone Off & Died ]
[ Why Does Someone Walk Towards The Light When It’s Not
Their Time? ]
[ What If They’re In Their Prime? ]
[ & They Want To Just Call It Quits ]
[ Because @ This Point In Time, They Just Don’t Give A Shit ]
[ Where Did It All Go Wrong? ]
[ When Did They Stop Being Strong? ]
[ Maybe The Length ]
[ Of An Illness ]
[ Has Zapped Their Strength ]
[ & Willingness ]
[ To Go On ]
[ Their Drive Is Gone ]
[ But What About Those Left Behind? ]
[ Will Their Memories Help Remind? ]
[ Them ]
[ Of The Times They Went Out & Dined ]
[ A Picture Whispers A Thousand Words ]
[ When They Spoke ]
[ Were They Heard? ]
[ When They Were Young They Were Alert & Wired ]
[ Now That They Are Older ]
[ They Wake In The Morning Still Tired ]
[ Goodbye, Unyunghikaseyo, Adiōs, Au revoir, Sayōnara Is
What They Wrote ]
[ In Their Final Note ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(122)▪︎[ What Happened? … 2•8•2020 ]
[ Here I Sit All Broken Hearted ]
[ I Mistakenly Thought That We Had A Relationship Started ]
[ Where Did My Thinking Go Oh So Wrong? ]
[ It Seemed Like One Minute You Were Here ]
[ & The Next Minute You Were Gone ]
[ It Wasn’t Very Clear ]
[ That I Knew, What Was Actually Going On ]
[ Will You Help Me Straighten Things Out ]
[ & Let Me Know What Your Absence Is All About? ]
[ When Did The Direction Of Our Relationship Go South? ]
[ Was It When I Opened My Mouth ]
[ If It Was, What Did I Say? ]
[ If I Messed This Up ]
[ Tell Me, In What Way? ]
[ Is There Anythíng Left To Save ]
[ After We Parted With A Wave ]
[ I Thought, For Sure We Were On Good Terms ]
[ Tell Me, What Do I Have To Learn? ]
[ Are The Bridges Burned? ]
[ Teach Me? ]
[ Help Me See ]
[ How I Can Get To Be, The Best That I Can Be? ]
[ So Do You Know? ]
[ Where This Is Going To Go? ]
[ If You Don’t, Why Not? ]
[ Don’t You Realize What You’ve Got? ]
[ I Thought ]
[ That I Really Meant Alot ]
[ Where Is Your Mindset? ]
[ What Did You Want To Get? ]
[ When We First Met? ]
[ Were We Not, Then? ]
[ If Not, When? ]
[ Since I know That We Cannot Begin ]
[ Again ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(98)▪︎[ Why Good People? … 2•1•2020 ]
[ Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People Everyday ]
[ We All Are Just Treading Water In This Big Sea, Called Life ]
[ Looking For The Way ]
[ That We Are Supposed To Go ]
[ Because As We Grow ]
[ We Can Come To The Resolution That @ Times ]
[ We Just Don’t Know ]
[ If We Should Go Straight ]
[ & Run Into A Locked Gate ]
[ Or Make A Hard Right ]
[ & Stop ]
[ Before We Get To That Bright Light ]
[ Because That Light Is An Oncoming Train ]
[ That Is Trying To Mess With Our Brain ]
[ Making Us Ask Ourselves ]
[ ( ARE WE OKAY, OR INSANE? ) ]
[ Then Someone Asks You ]
[ { IS THERE A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO? } ]
[ If There Is ]
[ Then Who Knew? ]
[ Who Knows How To Really Define What’s Going On In Your
Own Head ]
[ Before You’re Dead? ]
[ Can You Learn To Thrive ]
[ While You Are Alive? ]
[ Does Your Ego Need A Boost Every Now & Then? ]
[ If So, When? ]
[ It Is Also So Sweet ]
[ To Be Able To Ignore Those Ridiculous Tweets ]
[ While You Are Still Standing On Your Own Two Feet ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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