[ I Have To Say ]
[ (THANK YOU) For Every Day ]
[ That You Pull A Chair Up Next To Me & Say (YES, I WILL STAY!) ]
[ I Grew Up Thinking That People Don’t ]
[ I Grew Up Being Shown That Parents Won’t ]
[ Hell Yes I Carry Alot Of Baggage With Me ]
[ But Now You Know Why ]
[ Now You Can See ]
[ Don & Barbara Were The Judge ]
[ Of Whether They Would Budge ]
[ About Holding A Grudge ]
[ I Can Talk About All Of What Is In My Head ]
[ & You Would Show Me Understanding Instead ]
[ Thank You For Telling Me That My (GOODNIGHT) Does
Matter ]
[ & You Weren’t Telling Me Just To Make Idle Chatter ]
[ You Are The Definition Of What A True Friend Is ]
[ If You Don’t Believe Me Give Me A Minute & I Will Make You
A List ]
[ You Have Stuck By Me Through The Good & The Bad ]
[ The Happy & Sad ]
[ You Do Not Judge Me By What I Do ]
[ It Means The World To Me That You Love Me, Too ]
[ You May Live Far Apart ]
[ But I Hold Our Friendship, Near & Dear To My Heart ]
[ I Would Love It If You Moved Back Home ]
[ Then We Would Have More Contact With Each Other ]
[ Than Sending Texts On Our Phones ]
[ Real Live Contact Face To Face ]
[ Thank You For Making The Effort To Come To My Place ]
[ I Surely Want The Doctors To Figure Out The Problems
With Your Health First ]
[ I Don’t Like Knowing That There Are Times That You Hurt ]
[ You Have So Much Going On, But You Do Not Complain
@ All ]
[ During Those Times That You Do I Wish That You Would Give Me A Call ]
[ You Have Always Been The Wise One Between Us Two ]
[ When It Is Time To Show Respect ]
[ I Want To Give You What You Are Due ]
[ Maybe I Was Never Mature Enough To Write These Stories
@ A Younger Age ]
[ I Guess In My Book Of My Life ]
[ I Was Yet To Get To This Page ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
Tag: #friends
(805)▪︎[ Maybe They Were Not One … 9•23•2021 ]
[ It Is Hard When People Leave ]
[ But When You Look, Were They Ever Here? ]
[ Did They Have To Reach Up Their Sleeve ]
[ To Ever Show Some Cheer? ]
[ Were They Just A Shell Of Their True Self ]
[ When They Were With You ]
[ Were They Wishing They Were Talking With Someone Else? ]
[ No One Gives Their Undivided Attention All Of The Time ]
[ You May Have Thought That They Were Giving You $1’s Worth ]
[ When They Were Only Giving You A Dime ]
[ If Their Eyes Were Going Half Shut ]
[ That May Have Felt Like A Punch In The Gut ]
[ & Their Backhanded Compliments Always Included A
(YES, BUT …) ]
[ They Gladly Accepted A Gift Or Two ]
[ From You ]
[ Even Though It May Have Been Anticipated ]
[ Your Generosity ]
[ Was Never Reciprocated ]
[ In The End ]
[ Maybe They Never Were Your Friend ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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(337)▪︎[ To My Friend … 4•23•2021 ]
[ Goodnight To My Friend That Lives Many Many Miles Away ]
[ I Wish That There Will Be A Day ]
[ When We Can Say ( HELLO ) Face To Face ]
[ @ Our Designated Meeting Place ]
[ We Will Be Able To Look Into Each Other’s Eyes ]
[ As We Eat Our Burgers & Fries ]
[ I Think Since The First Time Me Met ]
[ I Am Very Predictable With What I Get ]
[ It Really Doesn’t Matter What I Eat ]
[ But It Definitely Has To Be A Sandwich With Actual Meat ]
[ I Would Have To Pinch Myself Because You Would
Actually Be In Front Of Me ]
[ You Have Stayed With Me Through The Very Worst Of
Times ]
[ & I See ]
[ A Good Friend Is What You Will Always Be ]
[ You Were Never Able ]
[ To Turn Your Back On Me Through The Many Years
When I Was Unstable ]
[ Our Friendship Continues To Last ]
[ & I Love The Memories Of The Past ]
[ When You Moved Away That Would Have Been The Easiest Time
When You Could Have Walked ]
[ Away ]
[ & Never Talked ]
[ To Me On Another Day ]
[ But You Wouldn’t ]
~ The End ~
[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(571)▪︎[ So Many Textures!! … 7•12•2021 ]
[ ( OH NO, THERE ARE SO MANY TEXTURES HERE! ) Is
What You Scream ]
[ Four Or Five @ The Same Time Has Never Been A Dream ]
[ It Is More Like A War Going On In Your Mouth ]
[ You Quickly Spit It Out ]
[ Who Dared To Talk You Into Eating That One? ]
[ Think It Was Me, Because I Wanted To Have Some Fun ]
[ It Was Something That Was Was Totally Harmless ]
[ It Would Have Disolved In Your Mouth Under (3) Seconds
@ Best ]
[ I Can’t Get Very Much By You These Days ]
[ & Believe Me, I Try To, In All Different Ways ]
[ But It So Much Fun To See & Hear Your Reactions ]
[ It Is More Fun Than Throwing You An Issue That Involves
Math Fractions ]
[ Because I Am A Much Better Friend To You Than Math Has
Ever Been ]
[ I Have Never Asked You To Multiply, Then ]
[ Divide 3.1638953079473 By Ten ]
[ I Am A Much Better Friend Than That ]
[ & No I Never Disliked When You Were Wearing A Hat ]
[ Your Hat Selection Was Always Very Amusing ]
[ How They Fit Into The Ambiance Of Your Outfits Was
Always Confusing ]
[ You Always Came Here For My Son ]
[ But You Would Eventually Come Back To Talk To Me
Because You Were So Done ]
[ You Never Stood In Front Of Me Being Mild & Meek ]
[ & Through Your Time Here ]
[ I Think That I Have Almost Become An Expert @
( ASHA SPEAK ) ]
[ If You Were An Outsider, The ( HMMs, EMs HMMs, & MMs )
Might Drive You Delirious ]
[ But I Come To Call That ( PART OF THE ASHA EXPERIENCE ) ]
[ I Guess To Some It Would Be Like ( GOING DAKINE ) ]
[ To Alcohol Drinkers It Would Be Like The Feeling You Get
When You Dink Fine Wine ]
[ Enough Of The Hawaiian Coming Out From Me ]
[ Whenever You Eat Something New, It Is So Fun To Sit
Back & See ]
[ How You Look It Over ]
[ Then How You Smell It All Over ]
[ Then There Is THE First Small Taste ]
[ Then If You Like It, There Will Be No Waste ]
[ When It Comes To Have An Experience With A ( FOODY ) You
Are My First ]
[ I Loved It When It Took You (3) Days To Get Up The Nerve
To Ask Me For A Water ]
[ To Quench Your Thirst ]
[ The ( ASHA EXPERIENCE ) Will Not Stop Here ]
[ Ash, Do I Make My Point Clear? ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(174)▪︎[ The Ones That We’ve Got … 2•23•2020 ]
[ Here’s To The Ones That We’ve Got ]
[ So Long To The Ones That Are Not ]
[ Friends Sometimes Come & Go ]
[ Is Family The Only Ones That We Know ]
[ Family Is Not Only Through Blood ]
[ Sometimes So Called Family Have Veins Full Of Mud ]
[ They Don’t Always Have Your Best Interests @ Heart ]
[ Sometimes That Family Doesn’t Play The Part ]
[ Feel Blessed Because Of Those You Have Around You ]
[ Be Thankful If You Have One Good Friend ]
[ Be Ecstatic If You Have Two ]
[ Build An Environment Based On Love ]
[ Make It So It Fits You Like A Tight Glove ]
[ Show As Much Appreciation As Possible ]
[ Help Making Problems Plausible ]
[ Do Unto Others As You Want Done Onto You In Your Life ]
[ Treat All With Respect ]
[ Especially Your Children & Wife ]
[ Always Cherish ]
[ Never Embarrass ]
[ Because How Would That Feel ]
[ If You Found Out That Those Around You Were Not Real ]
[ Real In The Form Of Honest, Courteous & Sincere ]
[ Surround Yourself With Ones That Want You Near ]
[ But Always Make It Clear ]
[ If They’re Not Positive & Have Your Best Interests @ Heart ]
[ They’re Out Of Here ]
~ 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 ]
(527)▪︎[ Friendship … 6•28•2021 ]
[ Friendship Is Not Something That Can Be Explained ]
[ It Is A Subject Where People Have Complained ]
[ This Is Not A Subject That Was Taught In School ]
[ But If You Did Not Learn This, You Look Like The Fool ]
[ Friendship Lines Are Sometimes Set By Race ]
[ Sometimes It Really Does, Go By The Color Of Your Face ]
[ That Is Sad, But True ]
[ This May Or May Not, Affect Someone That Looks Like
You ]
[ Looks Can Affect Everything ]
[ But Sometimes Looks Does Not Mean A Single Thing ]
[ Friendship Is Often Drawn Down Monetary Lines ]
[ Sometimes It Matters To Others If Your Piggy Bank Is
Full Of Pennies Or Dimes ]
[ Some People Can Be Total Bitches ]
[ If You Are Not One Of The Richest ]
[ Friendship Should Be Based On The Person, Not What
Is In Their Wallet ]
[ Or The Coins In Someone’s Pocket ]
[ If You Do Not Know How To Be A Friend, How Can They
Get One? ]
[ If You Are Not Fun ]
[ Would That Make Someone Run? ]
[ To You, Or Away From You? ]
[ If You Knew ]
[ What Would You Do? ]
[ Some Follow & Some Lead ]
[ Some Step Up, In Times Of Need ]
[ When Those That Follow ]
[ Try To Speak ]
[ Do Their Words Come Out Sounding Hollow? ]
[ Or Weak? ]
[ Is It Possible To Teach Someone That Has No Soul ]
[ How To Step Into A Leadership Role? ]
[ @ Times, That Is An Impossible Task ]
[ @ Times, Some People Are Well Hidden Behind Their ‘VID 19 Mask ]
[ School Teaches People Many Things ]
[ How To Read, How To Play The Trumpet ]
[ & How To Group People Together That Sings ]
[ But It Won’t Teach You How To Make A Friend, Though ]
[ Those Kinds Of Life’s Lessons ]
[ You Have To, Grow ]
[ To Know ]
~ 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 ]
(305)▪︎[ Thank You Lynn … 3•25•2020 ]
[ I Conversed On FB With A Dear ]
[ Friend ]
[ From Yesteryear ]
[ The Memories Of Her Smile ]
[ Lifted My Mood ]
[ For Awhile ]
[ Then She Put Up A Picture ]
[ Of Her ]
[ With Her Hair Rearranged ]
[ Her Looks Weren’t Aged ]
[ Or Changed ]
[ It Took Me Back To When The Impression Was Made ]
[ Way Back In The First Grade ]
[ Back Then I Was One Shy ]
[ Little Pudgy Guy ]
[ Nobody Knew My Past ]
[ & She Never Asked ]
[ You See, I Had Just Moved There From Being In A Very
Physically Abusive Foster Home ]
[ My New Parents Were The Only People That Had Known ]
[ I Was Just Getting Used To My New Name ]
[ But My New Friend Treated Me Just The Same ]
[ As She Did Everybody Else ]
[ That Helped This Lost New Kid On The Block ]
[ To Just Be Himself ]
[ My New Friend Accepted Me For Me ]
[ If You’d Never Been One ]
[ You Don’t Know How Hard Being The New Kid Can Be ]
[ I Went From Living On A Big Farm To Living On A City Block ]
[ So I Kind Of Had Some Culture Shock ]
[ & I Found It Extremely Hard To Open Up & Talk ]
[ But My New Friend Never Made Fun ]
[ I Learned To Play & Run ]
[ Not Just Running From Someone ]
[ Physical Abuse Can Cause Internal Screams ]
[ @ My New Families Home The Nightmares Stopped ]
[ & Were Replaced With What Kinds Of Things That Makes Kids
Dreams ]
[ @ School Every Single Day ]
[ My New Friend Always Said ( HELLO ) To Me ]
[ In The Nicest & Most Accepting Way ]
[ My Friend & I Stayed Close Clear Through Graduation Of
High School ]
[ I Loved Standing Back From My Friend & Watch The Other Guys
Acting Like Fools ]
[ Other Guys Tried To Act So Cool ]
[ All Being So Sure ]
[ They Were Somehow, In Some Small Way ]
[ Impressing Her ]
[ She Never Got Arrogant Or Let Her Stunning Beauty Go To
Her Head ]
[ She Stayed Extremely Modest & Grounded Instead ]
[ So Just On A Whim I Went On Her FB Tonight To Make A
Comment ]
[ I Paid Her A Compliment ]
[ That I Truly Meant ]
[ She Paid Back The Compliment Back By Saying She Considers
Me A Close Friend Through All Of These Years ]
[ She’s Always Been Head & Shoulders Above All Of Her Peers ]
[ Thank You Lynn For Always Being The Cherry On The Top ]
[ You’ve Been A Good Friend Down To The Last Drop ]
[ Thank You ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
(509)▪︎[ Mahalo, Ash … 6•21•2021 ]
[ My Friend, Ash, Has As Big A Heart, Like The Whole Outdoors ]
[ If She Were A Food Treat, She Would Be A Big Piece Of S’mors ]
[ Melted Chocolate & Marshmellow Combined ]
[ Ash Is Considered A Good, Close Friend Of Mine ]
[ She Has That Hard Graham Cracker Crust ]
[ Wearing Kid Gloves, When With Ash, Is A Must ]
[ It Takes Alot To Get Ash To Lower Her Wall Just A
Little Bit ]
[ Because Ash Has Seen & Been Through So Much Shit ]
[ But She Perseveres Everytime, Everyday ]
[ She Wears That Big Smile ]
[ & She Stays Positive In So Many Ways ]
[ She Never Comes In Our House Being Overpowering ]
[ She Is Even Polite, When She Is Monitor’s His Showering ]
[ Asha Does Her Job Proud ]
[ She Is Full Of Fun ]
[ But She Is Never Too Loud ]
[ She Has Her Own Strong Opinions, But They Are Never
Forced ]
[ On Others ]
[ & She Gives It Freely Without Being Coerced ]
[ Sometimes She Shows A Sweet Tooth, But That Is Not Too
Often ]
[ But Mention Pie In A Conversation Just Once ]
[ & She Will Have One In The Oven ]
[ Cake Just Doesn’t Float ]
[ Her Boat ]
[ Give Her A Cupcake & Watch With Anticipation ]
[ But Put Sprinkles On Top ]
[ Then Watch Her Apprehension ]
[ There Is Nothing To Dislike Or Argue About ]
[ Once She Got Comfortable In Our House ]
[ She Removed All Doubt ]
[ About Her Qualifications & How Well She Would Do
With Our Challenging, Troubled Child ]
[ One Thing That I Would Not Call Her Personality & Strengths ]
[ & That Would Be Mild ]
[ She Has The Right Tone ]
[ & We Love Her Strong Backbone ]
[ Good, Consistent Upbringing Is What She Gives The Credit
For This ]
[ Meeting Her Three Years Ago Would Have Been @ The Top
This Parents Wish List ]
[ So I Bring This Story To An End ]
[ By Saying]
[ I Am So Glad That I Can Proudly Call Asha Hakeem A Good
Friend ]
[ Hey Ash, Here Is Something New ]
[ Pew, Pew, Pew ]
[ Mahalo, Ash ]
~ Ka hopena ~
[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ]
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]
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