[ It Is So Hard To Keep Treading Water, When The Waters Are
So Rough ]
[ Keeping Your Head Up, When Life Gets So Tough ]
[ I Try To Rely On Others For My Meals & Care ]
[ Sometimes, When I Reach Out ]
[ Nobody Is There ]
[ I Cannot Keep Reaching Out, When I Have No Luck ]
[ I Cannot Buy Much, If All I’ve Got Is A Buck ]
[ Afterall, It Is The Almighty Dollar, That Makes The World
Go Around ]
[ Sometimes It Is So Hard To Keep My Feet, Planted Firmly
On The Ground ]
[ So Much Wrong Is Going On In The World, Right Now ]
[ You Look Sideways @ Someone & They Have A Cow ]
[ Actually More & More Simple Disputes Are Settled With
Gun Fire ]
[ Every Which Way You Look ]
[ Someone, Is Being Called A Liar ]
[ Some People Have Actually Obtained An Allergy, With Sitting
Down With Someone & Telling The Truth ]
[ It Is Like A Cavity, Overtaking A Front Tooth ]
[ Things Are Getting Way Out Of Hand, With How We Deal
With Each Other ]
[ Kids Are Growing Up, Disrespecting Their Mothers ]
[ Whatever Happened To Lovin’ Thy Neighbor ]
[ Or Did That Go By The Wayside, Like Child Labor? ]
[ Marriages Are Being Thrown Away As Easily, As An Old Bic
Pen ]
[ & Then, They Will Get Married & Divorced Again ]
[ No One Gets As Invested, Like They Used To Do ]
[ Some Marriages Only Lasts, A Year Or Two ]
[ Others, Are In It For The Long Run ]
[ Those, Are The Couples, That Makes Being Married Fun ]
[ Those Types Of People Live Better & Live Longer ]
[ They Love Life ]
[ So Their Relationships, Are Stronger ]
[ Some People Float In & Out Of Our Lives ]
[ Just Like Some Guys Carry Guns ]
[ While Others Carry Knives ]
[ People Are As Different To Each Other Like Two Different
Fingertips ]
[ Or The Imprint, Of Two Lips ]
[ As Different As Two Snowflakes ]
[ The Differences Between Pies & Cake ]
[ Things Are Vastly Different ]
[ & People Can Be So Indifferent ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(559)▪︎[ I Gained A Friend … 7•8•2021 ]
[ I Entered Into A Friendship Many Months Ago ]
[ With A Young Lady That I Did Not Know ]
[ We Were Quite The Opposite Of Each Other ]
[ I Grew Up With (2) Sisters ]
[ & She Grew Up With More Than ½ A Dozen Brothers ]
[ I Am Quite Short & She Is Quite Tall ]
[ I Don’t Say A Thing About Her Height ]
[ & She Has Never Called Me Small ]
[ We Grew-Up In Vastly Different Towns ]
[ We Grew-Up Probably Saying Different Verbs & Nouns ]
[ Describing & Seeing Things Through Different Eyes ]
[ So Of Course We Had Different Lives ]
[ She Will Find Out That I Am Not An Ordinary Guy ]
[ But Then In November, Fate Put Her In My House ]
[ She Had A Great Interview With Me & My Spouse ]
[ Very Business Like, Is How She Came Off ]
[ We Threw Alot Of Information @ Her During Those Two
Hours ]
[ & She Never Got Lost ]
[ She Came Into Our Lives To Be Our Son’s ABC ]
[ Then She Became A Really Good Friend To Me ]
[ She Started Here Being Extremely Reserved ]
[ I Was A Grumpy Old Man Is How I Was Observed ]
[ Through Time ]
[ She Became The Main Subject Of Many Of My Rhymes ]
[ I Have Found That There Is A Beautiful, Fragile, Hilarious
Woman Under That Hard Shell ]
[ In Everything & Everyday She Does Mean Well ]
[ She Doesn’t Have A Negative Thought In Her Head ]
[ Even Though, I Have Felt That In Her Past She Was Put
Through Hell ]
[ My Heart Hurts When I Have Those Thoughts About Her ]
[ I Am Never Sure ]
[ I Will Never Ask ]
[ I Won’t Take On That Personal Task ]
[ Those Questions Will Stay Behind My Mask ]
[ She Calls Herself An Introvert ]
[ That Could Be Her Protective Armor ]
[ Because Of All Of Her Hurt ]
[ She Is Caring & Protective ]
[ She Is Finding Out That We Love To Give ]
[ That Is Just How We Choose To Live ]
[ We Were Once In Need In Our Younger Years ]
[ When We Give Now, Our Hearts Let Out Three Cheers ]
[ My Friend’s Employment Will End Here Within A Week ]
[ That Is Hard To Say ]
[ So This Story Was Written Because I Wanted To Write
Every Word That My Heart Speaks ]
[ So You See ]
[ Your Protective Armor Was Not Meant To Be Worn For Me ]
[ As This Story Comes To An End ]
[ I Want To Tell Her Thank You For Calling ME Your Friend ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(565)▪︎[ No More Pain … 7•9•2021 ]
[ Suicide Is Very Prevalent, In Today’s Society ]
[ It Can Be A Mental Disorder, Where People Suffer Quietly ]
[ As They Go Quietly In The Night ]
[ Because They Give Up ]
[ & Quit The Fight ]
[ Sometimes It Is Because They Have No More Energy To Keep
Fighting ]
[ So They Put Down Their Pen ]
[ After They Are Done Writing ]
[ Their Suicide Note ]
[ Then They Read, What They Just Wrote ]
[ They Wrote That Nothing Makes Them Happy, Anymore ]
[ Not Even A Friend, Walking Through The Door ]
[ Sometimes Days On End ]
[ Are Stayed Covered Up, In Their Bed ]
[ Only Getting Up For Drinks Or Food ]
[ Thinking That Whatever They Say, Will Be Misunderstood ]
[ Getting Up Fewer & Fewer Times, As The Hours Tick By ]
[ Because Of Their Depressive Moods ]
[ No One Comes By, To Say ( HI ) ]
[ The More Days That People Stay Away ]
[ The Less They Eat ]
[ & The Less That They Weigh ]
[ Sometimes Suicidal Thoughts, Consume Them ]
[ Getting Away From The Suicidal Thoughts, Becomes A Problem ]
[ Once They Have Decided To Take Their Pills ]
[ A Feeling Of Warmth, Pushes Out The Chills ]
[ Then They Quietly Lay Down & Close Their Eyes ]
[ No Longer Having To Listen, To Anymore Lies ]
[ When They Are Found, They Are Gone ]
[ Their Soul Has Moved On ]
[ Then, There Is No More Pain ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(194)▪︎[ When It Matters … 2•28•2020 ]
[ Today, Was Yesterday’s Tomorrow ]
[ No Matter, How You Look @ It ]
[ You Never Have Time, To Borrow ]
[ Sometimes It Seems, Like There Is Never Enough Time In
A Day ]
[ That’s Why Some People, Try To Find A Way ]
[ To Extend It, By An Hour Or Two ]
[ But, That May Not Be Able To Affect You ]
[ You Have To Make The Most, Out Of The Time You’ve Got ]
[ & For Some ]
[ That’s Not ]
[ Going To Be Alot ]
[ So, If You’re Numb ]
[ From Being, In Deep Thought ]
[ Snap Out Of It ]
[ Before Life Takes Your Spirit ]
[ Away, Bit By Bit ]
[ & Makes It Disappear ]
[ In The Clear ]
[ Clean Mirror ]
[ Because, There’s No Deflecting ]
[ What That Mirror, Is Reflecting ]
[ When Trying To Change The Reflection ]
[ Don’t Chase After Perfection ]
[ You’ll Tire Of The Amount Of Steps On Life’s Treadmill
That You’ll Have To Take ]
[ To Even Shake ‘N Bake ]
[ After The Horrible Earthquake ]
[ That You’ve Caused Through Change ]
[ Even Though You Really Tried To Stay Within Range ]
[ Of Those Who Matter ]
[ Change Can Be Good Or It Can Be Bad ]
[ Would It Make Someone Mad ]
[ Knowing What You Are Changing ]
[ Makes Others Sad? ]
[ Or Would You Forge Ahead, With Your Plan ]
[ Not Caring, What Any Woman Or Man ]
[ Would Lose ]
[ So It Really Does Matter The Path You Choose ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(560)▪︎[ Where Time Goes To Die … 7•8•2021 ]
[ Sometimes Life Comes @ You So Fast ]
[ That It Makes You Do A Double Take ]
[ As It Flies Into Your Past ]
[ It Is Like That When You Are Doing Something Fun ]
[ One Minute You Start Something ]
[ & The Next Minute You Are Done ]
[ But If It Is Boring Or Hard To Do ]
[ One Hour Could Go By ]
[ But It Felt Like Two ]
[ Memories Sometimes Don’t Last Forever ]
[ Unless You Try To Remember ]
[ A Scent Can Trigger A Memory From Years Passed ]
[ That Would Be One Way To Make A Memory Last ]
[ Some Memories Are Never Meant To Be Remembered ]
[ Some Memories Are Best Left In September ]
[ Is It Life Or Time That Flies By ]
[ All Of A Sudden A Year Is Gone With A Blink Of An Eye ]
[ You Can Never Stock Up On Time ]
[ Like You Can A Penny Or A Dime ]
[ A Dime Here Or A Dime There ]
[ Soon You Will Have Enough Change To Share ]
[ You Can’t Hold Back The Tic Tok ]
[ Of The Wall Clock ]
[ Sometimes There May Come A Time When It Becomes Hard
For You To Walk ]
[ Never Surrender To Your Aches & Pains ]
[ Do Not Let Time Fly By That You Can’t Explain ]
[ Do Not Spend Time Being Known As The One Who Complains ]
[ That Would Be Time Wasted ]
[ That Would Be Like Food Being Thrown In The Garbage
Without Being Tasted ]
[ Sometimes Time Just Flies By You ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(558)▪︎[ Better Now Or Not … 7•7•2021 ]
[ Are You Better Off Now, Than You Were Before? ]
[ When You Went Into Your House A Year Ago ]
[ & Closed The Door? ]
[ On Everyone That Did Not Live There ]
[ If The Didn’t ]
[ It Did Not Matter From Where ]
[ Because Death Was Everywhere ]
[ How Are Your Relations With Strangers Now? ]
[ They Are Good? ]
[ How? ]
[ Things Are Just Misunderstood? ]
[ Wow! ]
[ Do You Talk To Strangers Anymore? ]
[ When Your Doorbell Rings ]
[ Are You More Wary Now Than Before ]
[ COVID ’19 ]
[ About Who Is On The Other Side Of The Door? ]
[ How Are Your Views On The Issue Of Race? ]
[ Does It Still Matter About The Color ]
[ Of Another Person’s Face? ]
[ When Looking @ Another ]
[ Why Should It Matter In The First Place? ]
[ You Don’t See Strangers, Stopping & Talking ]
[ You Only See Strangers Walking ]
[ Walking Right By ]
[ Without So Much As Saying ( HI ) ]
[ & No One Looks You In The Eyes ]
[ How Are People Supposed To Start Meeting? ]
[ How Are People Supposed To Meet & Go Out Eating? ]
[ Singles Are Meeting Through Computer Apps & Sights ]
[ Without Meeting ]
[ They Are Spending Their Nights ]
[ Swiping Left Or Swiping Right ]
[ No Arguing, That Causes A Fight ]
[ Even If It Did ]
[ Nobody Is In The Same Room @ Night ]
[ You Still Find It Safer Leaving Your Mask On ]
[ Because The Virus Is Not Gone ]
[ You Don’t Think Things Are Better Off? ]
[ Nobody Can Get Back The Time, Money Or Lives That Were Lost ]
[ That Doesn’t Make Now, Better Than Before The ‘VID ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(154)▪︎[ Give Myself A Talk … 2•17•2020 ]
[ I Tell You This ]
[ I’ll Tell You No Lie ]
[ That When Death Gave You It’s Kiss ]
[ I Had To Try ]
[ To Keep A Dry ]
[ Eye ]
[ You Were My Last String ]
[ Connecting Me To This Messed Up Family Thing ]
[ Now, Who Will Bring ]
[ Such Laughter ]
[ Only During Our Phone Calls ]
[ Not After ]
[ We’d Punch Each Other Silly With Our Put-Downs ]
[ We’d Take Turns Being The Clown ]
[ You Were Supposed To Take Me To Our Home Island ]
[ & Show Me The Town ]
[ All Of Our Dreams Of Growing Old Together ]
[ Has Changed As Fast As The Oregon Weather ]
[ All Because Of This I Ask ]
[ Why Did You Not Complete The Simple Task ]
[ Of Putting On Your Mask ]
[ During The Night After Last ]
[ Maybe You Are Now Sending Me A Message, In Your Own Way ]
[ If I Want To Wake To See Another Day ]
[ I Must Fight ]
[ To Make Things Right ]
[ By Making Sure That MY Mask Must Be On Tight ]
[ Night After Night ]
[ So Everytime I Balk ]
[ I Should Give Myself A Good Talk ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(532)▪︎[ I Don’t Know Where I Am Going … 6•29•2021 ]
[ Right Now I Feel Like I Am Set Adrift In A Boat On The
Sea Of Disarray ]
[ I Am Trying To Get To The Island That Makes Sense ]
[ But I Can’t Find My Way ]
[ Just When I Think That I Am Heading Down The Right Path ]
[ I Float Right By ]
[ My Coordinates Are Wrong, Because I Have Always Been Bad
In Math ]
[ I Have Circled The Island @ Least (5) Times Now ]
[ On The (3rd) Pass I Thought That I Saw A Cow ]
[ & Then I Spent A Big Chunk Of Time ]
[ Wondering How? ]
[ But I Guess Whenever I Have A Daytime Nightmare Anything
Goes ]
[ I Once Had One In June, But Then It Snowed ]
[ Floating Aimlessly On The Sea Was Never On The Bucket
List For My Life ]
[ I Already Accomplished The One On The Top Of My List ]
[ & That Was To Find Me A Loving, Supportive Wife ]
[ But She Can’t Make A Boat Paddle Magically Appear Anytime
Soon ]
[ If She Could, I Wish That She Could Do This By Tomorrow Before Noon ]
[ How Can I Get Out Of This Dangerous Current Taking Me
Nowhere ]
[ Why Can’t I Find The Current That Will Take Me Somewhere ]
[ Somewhere Quiet & Calm ]
[ Somewhere That Won’t Give Me Sweaty Palms ]
[ A Place Where My Feet Are Planted Firmly On The Ground ]
[ Dirt, Grass, Concrete Or Mud ]
[ Somewhere That Doesn’t Involve Water Anywhere Around ]
[ When I Am In These Daytime Nightmares Everything Seems
To Be Moving Really Slow ]
[ Can I See Them Coming? ]
[ That Would Be A ( NO! ) ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(148)▪︎[ Who Is Worse Off? … 2•16•2020 ]
[ There Are Alot Of People Having It Worse Off Than Me ]
[ I’m Just So Blind To See ]
[ How Bad Things Could Be ]
[ I Could Be Living In The Streets Without A Home ]
[ Then The Few People That I Know ]
[ Would Look @ Me As An ( UNKNOWN ) ]
[ They Would All Turn Their Backs On Me @ The Same Time ]
[ Leaving Me Destitute ]
[ Without Even A Dime ]
[ Are There Bad Times ]
[ Ahead? ]
[ Tomorrow, Will My Process For Making Rhymes ]
[ Be Dead? ]
[ Why Am I Predicting Such a Dark Cloud? ]
[ That Is The Question For The Day ]
[ Are The Voices Loud? ]
[ In Telling Me It Could Easily Be That Way? ]
[ Just Because I Was Born Under A Dark Cloud Doesn’t Mean
I Have To Live Under One ]
[ I Can’t Make A Single Thought Fun? ]
[ @ Times I Feel So Alone, With The Weight Of My World
Pushing Me Down ]
[ By Pushing On My Shoulders ]
[ I Lost My Crown ]
[ As I Got Older ]
[ Now I Constantly Frown ]
[ As My Sweats Get Colder ]
[ Am I Only A Citizen Because Of A Social Security Card? ]
[ Hundreds, Thousands Of Them Are Fraudulently Made ]
[ It’s Not All That Hard ]
[ What If I Lose It, Or It Is Misplaced? ]
[ Would A Knock On The Door ]
[ Bring The I.N.S. & Me Together For A Face To Face? ]
[ Which Country Border Would They Drop Me Off ]
[ @? ]
[ I’d Be Like A Lost ]
[ Cat ]
[ & Once Again Without A House In Which I Live ]
[ I Could No Longer Invite Others In ]
[ So I Could Do My Favorite Thing … Give ]
[ I Bet Not One Person That I Gave To Would Come To My Aid ]
[ They Would Just Look @ Me With A Blank Stare ]
[ Because Their Memory Would Fade ]
[ Now They Won’t Share ]
[ What They Made ]
[ That’s Okay ]
[ I’d Say ]
[ I Came Into This World Naked, Not Owning A Cent ]
[ When I Die ]
[ Maybe Someone Will Wonder Where My Good Life Went ]
[ Even I ]
[ Wonder What Was The Big Life-Changing Event? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(144)▪︎[ Roses … 2•15•2020 ]
[ Roses, Roses A Dozen Roses For You ]
[ How Many, How Many? ]
[ There Should Be A Bunch Of Six Times Two ]
[ I Wanted To Send Two Bunches Of Six In Each ]
[ One Bunch Is Yellow ]
[ & The Other Is Peach ]
[ I Hope In Some Small Way ]
[ That It Would Make Your Day ]
[ I Wanted It To Be Large ]
[ & In Charge ]
[ Stand It High On Top Of A Book ]
[ So When Your Fellow Employees Walk By ]
[ They Can Do Nothing But Look ]
[ They Might Ignore You, But I Won’t ]
[ If They Knew The You @ Home ]
[ They Will Answer The Question Of Why I Don’t ]
[ So You Could Act Like The Mad Hatter ]
[ & Show Those People ]
[ That To Me, You Matter ]
[ @ Home You Have A Loving Husband & Son ]
[ I Am Your Moon ]
[ Like You Are My Sun ]
[ My Stories May Not Earn Me Money ]
[ & That Is Okay With Me ]
[ I Don’t Need A Holiday To Do This ]
[ I Have Been Remiss ]
[ Because Sending You Flowers ]
[ Is Something I Miss ]
[ I Love You Forever & Ever … Amen ]
[ I Hope You Never Feel That I Only Love You ]
[ Now & Then ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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