[ What Does The Word Freedom Mean To You In Your World ]
[ With This Isolating Does It Feel Twirled? ]
[ Off Of It’s Axis ]
[ What’s Next For Us? ]
[ No, You Can’t Go Out There ]
[ Where? ]
[ Anywhere! ]
[ How Do You Feel Love ]
[ Through A Latex Glove? ]
[ Can’t You See ]
[ This Is How Things Must Be ]
[ Do You Have It? ]
[ Does She? ]
[ The Thing About This Virus Is That You Don’t Know
Until It’s Too Late ]
[ Then You Find Out That Where You Ate ]
[ Infected Your Mate ]
[ Or Did You ]
[ Put Together The Two Plus Two ]
[ Who Were They Always Around? ]
[ Do You Not Like The Answer You Found? ]
[ That Is Why We Must Wait ]
[ & Self-Isolate ]
[ Being In The House Is Making You Feel Lazy ]
[ Your Memory Has Become Hazy ]
[ How Do You Stay Sharp? ]
[ When The Boredom Is Tearing You Apart? ]
[ Do You Really Need To Go To The Store? ]
[ Do You Need To Run That Errand? ]
[ Just One, Maybe More? ]
[ Things Are So Dire ]
[ You Don’t Stand Up In A Theatre & Yell ( FIRE ) ]
[ You Could Make So Many People Sick ]
[ Because Of The Panick ]
[ No One Wants To Quarantine A Day Longer Than Need Be ]
[ It Will Be Great ]
[ When We Can Go Back To Being The Land Of The Free ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(273)▪︎[ Some Words … 3•17•2020 ]
[ The World Has Now Turned Upside Down With A Snap ]
[ If You Have Not Heard Of This Virus ]
[ You Must Have Been Taking A Nap ]
[ Now People Are Being Quarantined From Each Other ]
[ But They Say That We Must Remain Separate But Together ]
[ What Exactly Does That Mean? ]
[ Are We Just Supposed To Be Heard? ]
[ Not Seen? ]
[ The Virus Is Everywhere ]
[ Yes It’s There, There & There ]
[ The Main Thing Is That We Can’t Be In A Group
Or A Bunch ]
[ No More Meeting For Breakfast Or Lunch ]
[ One Thing We Will Miss So Much ]
[ That Is Seeing & Loving Each Other Through Touch ]
[ When Will This End, Nobody Can Predict ]
[ The Virus Doesn’t Care Who Gets Picked ]
[ & To Think That This All Started Because Of A Bat ]
[ Now It Affects All Of This ]
[ & All Of That ]
[ The Poor Workers That Got Sent Home Or Got Laid Off ]
[ Some Have To Dip Into Their Sick Leave ]
[ Without Sneezing Or Having A Cough ]
[ My Wife Works @ A Job Where She Can’t Do It From Home ]
[ Some Of Her Fellow Employees Have Traveled ]
[ To Some Places Unknown ]
[ We Were Supposed To Travel, Too ]
[ But Then We Canceled Everything Because Of What We Knew ]
[ We Definitely Understand & Don’t Oppose ]
[ That Where We Were Going ]
[ Everything Was Closed ]
[ So When You All Are @ Home Don’t Be Down Or Get Lazy ]
[ Call Someone That Makes You Laugh ]
[ So You Don’t Go Stir Crazy ]
[ I Know What I’ll Do With These Longer Days Of Light ]
[ I’ll Keep My Phone On ]
[ & Use The Thoughts That I Have That Compel Me To Write ]
[ Some Thoughts Come Quick, But Others Are Slow ]
[ What Tomorrow Brings ]
[ Nobody Knows ]
[ The Lead Doctors & Scientists Do Not Even Know What Comes
Next ]
[ We’re Dealing With A Virus So We Don’t Know What To Expect ]
[ So,We, I Mean Us, Who Want To Live To Grow Old ]
[ Trust The Smart People ]
[ & Do As We’re Told ]
[ I Love Writing Story After Story ]
[ Not For The Praise ]
[ Or The Glory ]
[ With All The Thoughts That Don’t End ]
[ It’s Warm Thoughts That I Send ]
[ To My Loved Ones & Friends ]
[ Everyone Stay Safe ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(277)▪︎[ The Chase … 3•18•2020 ]
[ In Life, Are You Chasing Your Dreams? ]
[ Or Listening To The Screams ]
[ Of Doubt? ]
[ What Is That About? ]
[ Dreams That We Can’t Help That We Keep Reaching For? ]
[ Is There A Magical Door ]
[ That Leads You To The Ground Floor? ]
[ When You Reach It, Then What? ]
[ Does The Dream Machine Close Down & Shut? ]
[ What About The Next One ]
[ & The One After That? ]
[ Are Things Not Fun ]
[ When You Throw It Down To The Mat? ]
[ Who Objects ]
[ If You Raised Your Hand ]
[ & Asked ( SO, WHAT’s NEXT? ) ]
[ Do You Have The Guts To Keep Going On? ]
[ Is The Drive Gone? ]
[ What Could Go Wrong? ]
[ If You Remain Strong? ]
[ Nothing ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(275)▪︎[ Just Another Day In Paradise … 3•18•2020 ]
[ Would It Be Considered Controversial? ]
[ To Think That Society ]
[ Has To Go Through It’s Day Being So Impersonal? ]
[ Can We Touch Without Being Touched? ]
[ Can A Boxer Win ]
[ Without Getting Punched? ]
[ Sometimes Questions Come Up That Has No Answer ]
[ There Are Unexplained ]
[ Causes For Cancer ]
[ But We Search For The Unexplainable ]
[ The Impossible ]
[ We Want To Make Sense Of It All ]
[ When You’re Perplexed ]
[ Who Do You Want To Call? ]
[ Mom Or Dad? ]
[ Tom Or Chad? ]
[ What If None Of Them Are Around? ]
[ Both Of My Dad & Mom ]
[ Are In The Ground ]
[ Now You Can’t Walk Outside To Go Downtown ]
[ There’s Barely Another Person ]
[ To Be Found ]
[ Look Up Center Street ]
[ Or Go Down State A Few Feet ]
[ The World As We Knew It Six Months Ago ]
[ Is Gone ]
[ Is This A Slow ]
[ Con? ]
[ Brought About Because Of A Master Conspiracy? ]
[ What’s Your Theory? ]
[ Is This The Armageddon? The Apocalypse? ]
[ Or Nature’s Form Of A Time-Out? ]
[ Is This Ever Going To Make Sense? ]
[ This, Is One Of Those Things That I Doubt ]
[ Are You The Type ]
[ To Believe The Hype? ]
[ Or Do You Only Act? ]
[ On The Facts? ]
[ Whatever The Choice ]
[ Don’t Use Your Voice ]
[ Just To Cause Noise ]
[ But Hey, I’ve Never Pretended To Teach ]
[ Or Preach ]
[ But My Life Is Mine ]
[ & Your Life Is Yours ]
[ I Think We Will All Do Fine ]
[ Behind Our Own Doors ]
[ & If Our Lives Intertwine ]
[ By Sharing The Same Floor ]
[ We All Have Our Role To Play ]
[ So Let’s Find A Way ]
[ To @ Least Have A Pleasant Day ]
[ Okay? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(274)▪︎[ I Miss My Brother … 3•18•2020 ]
[ I Have A Younger Brother, Brent ]
[ A Month Ago ]
[ Heaven Is Where He Went ]
[ He Passed Peacefully, As He Slept ]
[ Many Times Since That Night, I’ve Wept ]
[ Sleep For Me, Is Far Overrated ]
[ Staying Awake Through The Whole Night, Is What I’ve Hated ]
[ Brent Was Not Just A Relative ]
[ He Was Also The Friend ]
[ Who Was Never Negative ]
[ Positivity Is What He Brought Out In Me ]
[ He’ll Always Be That Way In My Mind, To See ]
[ Humor Was One Thing We Had In Common, Too ]
[ When His Name Would Come Across My Caller I.D. ]
[ I’d Automatically Think ( HOW CAN I CLOWN ON YOU? ) ]
[ We’d Make Funny Cut-Downs That We Never Meant ]
[ Time Together Was One Thing In Our Life ]
[ That Was Hardly Spent ]
[ Brent & I Were Separated During Our Toddler Years ]
[ I’m Sure When We Said Our Goodbyes ]
[ There Were Many Nights Of Tears ]
[ So I Grew-Up Knowing I Had A Brother Out There ]
[ But I Never Knew Where ]
[ I Grew Up Not Even Knowing His Name ]
[ Our Birth Mother Is Who I Blamed! ]
[ Over & Over & Over Because She Was The Reason For The Family
Split ]
[ One Day She Was A Mother Of Three ]
[ Then She Decided, She Didn’t Want Any Part Of It ]
[ Just, So She Could Be Free ]
[ She Gave Up, ALL Of Her Parental Rights ]
[ We Were Too Young To Put Up A Fight ]
[ So Then Fast Forward, In My Life ]
[ My Brother, Was Found By My Wife ]
[ He Was In North Carolina & I Was In Oregon ]
[ I Wondered About How We Could Meet Up Again ]
[ My Wonderful, Generous In-Laws Paid For Our Trip There ]
[ A Hotel Room, A Rental Car, Spending Money & Air Fare ]
[ I’ll Never Be Able To Pay Back Their Generosity ]
[ It Would Take More Than Money ]
[ Much More ]
[ That Showed The Love From All Four ]
[ Of Them ]
[ Brent & I Reconnected Really Fast ]
[ But We Felt We Were Always Connected In Our Past ]
[ We Started A Bond That Would Forever Last ]
[ So We Let Each Other Get Known ]
[ During Our Hours On The Phone ]
[ & Now … God Called Him Home ]
[ There’s Not Going To Be Anymore Phone Calls & Hours
Long Laughs ]
[ His Passing Has Cut My Heart In Half ]
[ There Are Voice Mail Messages On My Phone That I Can’t
Bring Myself To Erase ]
[ I Miss His Voice ]
[ Not His Face ]
[ We Had Plans To Grow Old Together ]
[ Oh How I Miss My Brother ]
[ His Voice Will Always Be In My Ear ]
[ What I Wouldn’t Do ]
[ To Have Him Here ]
[ I Miss Him, I Always Will ]
[ If Only There Was A Magical Pill ]
[ Could It Be Certain ]
[ To Stop My Hurtin’? ]
[ Probably Not ]
[ But I Thank God ]
[ For The Family I’ve Still Got ]
[ Because A Daily Hug From My Beautiful Wife ]
[ Sure Does Hit The Spot ]
[ I Miss You Brent ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(268)▪︎[ Happy 24th … 3•16•2020 ]
[ Happy Anniversary, Number 24 ]
[ One Thing About Our Anniversaries ]
[ Is That I Always Want More ]
[ Sometimes Our Days & Years Go Up & Down ]
[ I Always Feel Better ]
[ Knowing That You Want Me To Stick Around ]
[ You Are ]
[ The Brightest Star ]
[ That I Could Ever See In The Night Sky ]
[ Making Me The Luckiest Guy ]
[ Because It Was Me That Caught Your Eye ]
[ 24 Years Ago You Said ( I DO ) ]
[ When I Was Asked, I Said That I Do, Too ]
[ Then We Took A Nice Ride In Our Limousine ]
[ We Rode Our Charriot Back To Mom & Dad’s ]
[ For Some Nighttime Cuisine ]
[ If I Was Asked If I’d Do All Of This Again ]
[ I’d Ask Back ]
[ When Do We Begin? ]
[ When I Asked You If I Could Be The Guy That You Would Want
To Marry ]
[ That Was The Most Important Question That I’ve Ever Asked ]
[ I Can See ]
[ That You’ve Proven Up To The Task ]
[ Through All Of These Years You Never Gave Up On Me ]
[ If Someone Offered Me Money To Keep Going ]
[ I’d Say ( NO THANK YOU, I’ll DO THIS FOR FREE ) ]
[ & You Never Gave Up On Us ]
[ You Have Had Many Opportunities ]
[ To Catch The Next Greyhound Bus ]
[ Whoever Said ( YOU COMPLETE ME ) Could Not Have Said
More Appropriate Words ]
[ I Thought Of You ]
[ When That Was A Statement I Heard ]
[ Being Single Is A Computer World, That I Want None Of ]
[ I Believe In The Old Fashioned Way ]
[ Of Finding True Love ]
[ I Would Never Pass As A Computer Nerd ]
[ I Think Being Single ]
[ Is For The Birds ]
[ I’d Be Lost & I Would Experience The Spins ]
[ It Would Have Me Sleeping ]
[ On Needles & Pins ]
[ Well We Have @ Least 26 More Years To Go ]
[ Where Did You Think We’d Be 24 Years Ago ]
[ Are You Where You Want To Be? ]
[ Is There A Bright Future For Us That You Can See? ]
[ Being Married To You Is All That I’ve Wanted All Along ]
[ The Way ]
[ Being By Your Side ]
[ Is Where I Know I Belong ]
[ Day After Day ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
[° 245)▪︎[ Can You See Them … 3•9•2020 ]
[ Can You See My Scars? ]
[ Inside My Head, They Are As Big As Cars ]
[ The Ones That Cannot Be Seen ]
[ Are From People Who Were Nasty & Mean ]
[ Those Kinds Of People Attack ]
[ From Behind ]
[ & Stab You In The Back ]
[ & They Don’t Do It By The Light Of Day ]
[ They Do It @ Night When It’s Black ]
[ Outside ]
[ The Scars Can Be As Small As A Paper Cut ]
[ But It Causes A Gap ]
[ That Is Hard To Keep Shut ]
[ The Unseen Scars Are The Deepest & Hurt The Most ]
[ Sometimes They Feel Like They’ve Been Stabbed By A Post ]
[ Then You’ll Never Get Back The Trust That Was Lost ]
[ You’ll Never Come To A Final Cost ]
[ But As You Are Attempting To Recoup Your Loss ]
[ Your Pain Will Always ]
[ Let You Know, Who’s The Boss ]
[ But When The Pain Is Below The Surface ]
[ You Can Never Figure Out How, Or Why ]
[ & What Is The Purpose ]
[ The Purpose Is To Cause More Pain ]
[ Scars Want To Remind You Again & Again ]
[ That It’s Not Going To Be Very Kind ]
[ To Keep Pain On Your Mind ]
[ @ Least That Is What You Find ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(237)▪︎[ Who Is Left? … 3•7•2020 ]
[ Can You Live Your Life With Your Own Failures? ]
[ Would It Be Easy Being On A Ship Living With A Group Of
Sailors? ]
[ What If Half Of The Problems That You’ve Had While You’ve
Been Alive ]
[ Was Wiped Away? ]
[ Would You Then Thrive? ]
[ Or Would You Continue To Dog Paddle In The Deep-End Of
The Lake? ]
[ You Just Do Not Know What It Would Take ]
[ To Reach The Side & Climb Out ]
[ Surviving Is Your Greatest Doubt ]
[ If There Are Always Those That Have To Remember What Was ]
[ There Will Be Those That Will Never Reach For What Can Be ]
[ Because ]
[ They Don’t Want To See ]
[ What Faith Does ]
[ They Will Resist ]
[ As The Faithful Persist ]
[ Who Will Win? ]
[ & ]
[ Who Will Lose ]
[ When It’s Your Choice ]
[ Who Will Begin ]
[ To Choose? ]
[ By Using Their Voice? ]
[ While Not Turning To Booze ]
[ Living Is The Hardest Part Of Life ]
[ Having The Energy To Keeping The Light ]
[ On Strong ]
[ Throughout The Night ]
[ Keeping Safe, The Ones That You Love ]
[ Handling Them Gently ]
[ Like You Would A Dove ]
[ Then Not Putting Up A Fight ]
[ & Letting Them Know What Is Best ]
[ When They Want To Take Flight ]
[ From The Family Nest ]
[ Then You’ll Know To Keep In Sight ]
[ The Love You Have For The Rest ]
[ That Are Left ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(217)▪︎[ Why Don’t You Know? … 3•4•2020 ]
[ I Cry & You Don’t Know When I’m Hurt ]
[ Then My Tears Fall On My Shirt ]
[ What Do You Do? ]
[ All I Get Is A Cold Feeling ]
[ & A Blank Look From You ]
[ Where’s The Love? ]
[ What Are You Thinking Of? ]
[ When You See Me Standing There Looking Like A Mess ]
[ I Have To Confess ]
[ I Feel Totally Undressed ]
[ & That Makes Me Stressed ]
[ Why Do You Not Know How To Comfort Me ]
[ It’s Just Like The Day I Scraped My Knee ]
[ Where Were You? ]
[ I Had No Clue ]
[ Whatsoever ]
[ I Thought You Would Never ]
[ Turn Your Back ]
[ What’s Up With That? ]
[ I Remember Things Like This ]
[ To Me It’s A Total Diss ]
[ When I’m Away From You This Is One Feeling That I Do Not Miss ]
[ Where’s The Respect? ]
[ I Know, I Know, What Should I Expect ]
[ I Expect More ]
[ I Didn’t Expect You To Take My Emotions ]
[ & Sweep The Floor ]
[ Would You Then Take My Heart & Wipe The Windows? ]
[ Who Would Know? ]
[ What Would That Show? ]
[ That Would Show That You Will Always Be The Dominant
One ]
[ Are We THAT Done? ]
[ & That Makes Me Sad ]
[ Dad ]
[ So, Let Me Make This So Crystal Clear ]
[ I Am So Glad That You Are Not Up Here ]
[ & I So Much Care ]
[ That You Wound Up Down There ]
[ So, Here’s To Burnt Hair! ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(213)▪︎[ Don’t Turn Back … 3•4•2020 ]
[ Go Away Little Girls ]
[ With Your Head Full Of Curls ]
[ Stop Being The Kind ]
[ That Tries To Mess With All Of The Mens Minds ]
[ They Are Not Going To Get Very Far ]
[ With Their Head Up In The Stars ]
[ Driving Their Fast Car ]
[ While Stopping In @ All Of The Young Crowd Bars ]
[ Looking In The Dark For Mr. Wright ]
[ But They Find That He’s Nowhere In Sight ]
[ Then Someone Makes The Room All Bright ]
[ By Turning On The Light ]
[ That Just Shines A Light On The Bad ]
[ & What Makes Them So Mad ]
[ Is That The Couples Look Oh So Sad ]
[ Do The Women See No Reason To Take Flight ]
[ Because All They Do Is Fight ]
[ With Who They Thought Was The Guy That’s Right ]
[ They Have No Clue ]
[ About What They Should Do ]
[ They Look For Any Recent Text ]
[ About What To Do Next ]
[ Who Will Take Or See Their Side ]
[ On Everything ]
[ When They Hide ]
[ The Gold Wedding Rings ]
[ When Others Hear That They Lied ]
[ About These Things ]
[ They May Turn Their Backs & Walk ]
[ & Let It Be Known ]
[ That They Will Never Again Be Asked To Sit Down & Talk ]
[ About The Circumstances ]
[ That Had Them Taking Chances ]
[ Going To Those Wild, Loud Dances ]
[ That They Normally Would Not Have Thought Of ]
[ If They Weren’t In The Wrong Places ]
[ Looking For Love ]
[ In A Group Of Strange Faces ]
[ What Were They Exploring? ]
[ Leaving Friends Worrying ]
[ Back Home ]
[ Where They Are Known ]
[ But If They Would Only Pick Up The Phone ]
[ They Would Stop In Their Tracks ]
[ & Come Back ]
[ Where They Started ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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