(043)▪︎[ What Was Her Name? … 2026 ]

[ You Loved Her, Long Before You Knew Her Name ]
[ You Knew That Once You Met The Woman Of Your Dreams ]
[ Things Would Never Be The Same ]
[ Sometimes It Seems ]
[ Like Love Can Be One Big Blame Game ]

[ One Thing That Can Drive You So Insane ]
[ Is How Do You Anticipate ]
[ The Inevitable Emotional Pain ]
[ The Kind That Does Not Discriminate ]
[ But Still, It Is The Kind That You Disdain ]

[ Emotional Pain Hurts Clear Down To The Last Letter ]
[ When The Pain Is Physical ]
[ You Can Put A Band-Aid On The Pain & You Feel So Much Better ]
[ & It’s Visible ]

[ Some Part Of You Felt Different During Your Walk ]
[ In The Park ]
[ Most People Would Have Balked ]
[ Because The Night Sky Was So Dark ]
[ But Were You Looking To Talk? ]

[ Did Mother Nature Have Something Brewing? ]
[ Was There A Storm Ensuing ]

[ Would It Have Been Assuming ]
[ If You Thought That This Storm Would Be All Consuming? ]

[ Raining Dogs & Cats ]
[ When You & Your Dog Were Out Walking ]
[ You Noticed That No One Was Wearing Any Rain Hats ]
[ While Groups Huddled Together & Were Talking ]

[ Would They Be Singing The Blues ]
[ If It Started Raining So Hard ]
[ The Water Started Getting Into Their Shoes ]
[ All Because No One Paid Attention To The Weather Forecast ]
[ During Last Night’s Local News? ]

[ You Said, “Hello” As You Walked By The First Group, Even Though A Few Of Them Were Attached To Their Phone ]
[ Then It Started Pouring ]
[ That Was When You Noticed A Woman Standing All Alone ]

[ She Was Standing Under A Cover Beneath A Tall Pole With A Light ]
[ When She Looked Your Way ]
[ Her Deep Crystal Blue Eyes, Were Quite ]
[ The Sight ]

[ You Smiled @ Her & Something Quietly Came Undone ]
[ Was It The War Inside Your Chest That You’ve Never Won ]
[ If You Walked Up, & Said, “Hello” ]
[ Would She Take Off & Run? ]
[ You Walked Towards Her, Kind Of Slow ]
[ What If She Had A Gun? ]
[ You Took A Chance, Because You Did Not Know ]

[ When You Calmly Began To Talk, Her Blue Eyes Began To Fill With Tears ]
[ You Could Not Figure Out How A Woman That Was So Young ]
[ Could Have So Many Long Lasting Fears ]

[ You (2) Had Only Just Met ]
[ You Failed To Understand ]
[ What She Thought That She Would Get ]
[ Could This Be A Demand ]
[ Of Some Upcoming Debt? ]

[ You Used All Of Your Willpower ]
[ To Stand & Listen To Her ]
[ For Over An Hour ]

[ But How Would This Conversation End? ]
[ Were You Saying Anything That You Would Later Need To Defend? ]

[ You Wanted To Play This Cool ]
[ There Was A Tearful Woman Standing Directly In Front Of You ]
[ You Did Not Want To Add Any Fuel ]
[ Or Drop Some Kind Of Clue ]
[ That You Had No Idea What To Do? ]

[ You Knew What Would Cause The Tension To Be Cut In ½ ]
[ If Only You Could Say Something ]
[ To Get Her To Laugh ]
[ About Anything ]

[ Inconsequential ]
[ Nothing Absurd Or Delusional ]
[ It Could Even Be Something Questionable ]

[ But Nothing Rude ]
[ Or Lewd ]
[ You Live In A Society That Is So Litigious ]
[ You Don’t Want To Ever Get Sued ]
[ Suing People Can Get Contagious ]
[ When It Is A “He Said, She Said” Situation, The Man Always Gets Screwed! ]

[ That Was When You Learned That Her Laughter Became Your New Favorite Song ]
[ She Thought Her Laugh Was Kind Of Corny ]
[ You Never Thought You Heard Anything Wrong ]
[ Unless You Were Hearing Her Poorly ]

[ As The Rain Kept Coming ]
[ You Stayed To Listen To Her ]
[ Should You Take Off Running? ]
[ You Seemed So Unsure ]

[ But Then Your Back Started To Cramp ]
[ You Both Took The Conversation To The Bench ]
[ Under The Street Lamp ]

[ Her Voice Was So Easy On Your Ears ]
[ She Was Talking About Some Of Her Fears ]
[ You Wished You Could Help Her With Her Tears ]

[ You Sat There & Talked For Hours ]
[ You Even Outlasted The Rain Showers ]

[ It Was No Surprise ]
[ That You Talked Long Enough To See The Sun Start To Rise ]

[ You Have Not Had This Long Of A Talk With A Stranger, Ever ]
[ When We Got Up To Part Ways, She Asked, “Will You Forget About Me?” ]
[ You Looked Her In The Eyes & Said, “Never!” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(351)▪︎[ If They Can, They Will Go Far … 2024 ]

[ What Is Always @ The End Of The Words “Love/Hate?” ]
[ What Separates Heaven From Hell ? ]
[ It Is A Large Swinging Gate ]
[ That Could Possibly Tell ]
[ You, If You Are, Or Are You Not, Doing So Well ]

[ Some People Think, That The Distance Between The (2) ]
[ Is Clear Across Town ]
[ It Might Surprise You ]
[ But Hell Is Just One Floor Down ]

[ Of Course Heaven Is On Top ]
[ & Hell Is Down Below ]
[ Of Course, The Air Conditioner Up In Heaven Has More Pop ]
[ The Conditioner Down In Hell Has Always Been On “Stop” ]

[ GOD Alone, Is The Judge Of Our Souls ]
[ He Promises, Among Other Things, Compassion ]
[ His Followers Will Always Hand Out Butter, For your Rolls ]
[ Because Good Service, Is Always In Fashion ]

[ Fashion Has Always Been A Personal Choice ]
[ Do They Make The Decision ]
[ By Using Their Voice? ]

[ Is It All Different As They All Are ]
[ The Colors Of A Car ]
[ Where Can They Go ]
[ Well, They Can’t Go Very Far ]

[ Without Manpower Behind Them ]
[ Not Having The Power ]
[ Is The Problem ]

[ Big Or Small? ]
[ Thick Or Tall? ]

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|| Ka hopena ||

|| Mahalo E Ka hoa ||
|| A hui hou ||
|| Aloha ||

|| Na ||
|| Lopaka DeVoe ||

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(351)▪︎[ Life … 2026 ]

[ What Does Life Mean To You In Your Own Eyes? ]
[ Do You Walk Through Your Day Telling Lies ]
[ Or Wearing A Disguise? ]

[ Either Way You Are Not Telling Others The Truth ]
[ It Seems Like You Have Not Been Honest ]
[ Since Your Youth ]

[ What Are You Afraid Of? ]
[ A Bald Eagle ]
[ Or A Tiny White Dove? ]
[ Does Your Stomach Get Queazy ]
[ Everytime That You Feel Yourself Falling In Love? ]

[ Falling In Love Is A Huge Step ]
[ When Most People Are In The Midst Of Falling ]
[ They Start Confusing Their Right From Their Left ]

[ Stumbling ]
[ Fumbling ]
[ & Bumbling ]

[ Time Starts To Slow ]
[ Common Sense Flies Out The Window ]
[ But Before You Know ]
[ Someone Will Pop Up ]
[ & Sarcastically Say, “I Told You So!” ]

[ But … ]
[ They Told You What? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(318)▪︎[ Where Is Your Footprint? … 2026 ]

[ If You Die Young ]
[ & There Was A Celebration Of Life Going On ]
[ Would Anybody Come? ]
[ Or Would Every Loved One Be Gone? ]

[ Have You Been Going So Fast ]
[ That You Didn’t Leave Your Footprint On Anything In Your Past? ]
[ Will There Be Any Remnants Of You, That Will Last? ]

[ Can You See Any Kind Of A Footprint? ]
[ Or Is That Just Pocket Lint? ]

[ Where Did The Time Go? ]
[ Did It Pass By You Fast Or Slow? ]

[ It Seems That You Don’t ]
[ Will Your Neighbors Know? ]
[ You Bet They Won’t ]

[ How Come The Only Help ]
[ You Can Get ]
[ Is From The Lone Review On Yelp? ]

[ You Look & Look ]
[ But There Is Zero Chit Chat On Facebook ]

[ What About Your 100’s Of So Called Friends? ]
[ Did Anybody Stick By You Through The End? ]

[ You Are Finding Out That You Left Nothing Of Worth ]
[ On This Earth ]

[ Not In Your House ]
[ Or Words From Your Grieving Spouse ]

[ But You Quickly Find That She Is Not Grieving ]
[ She Is Packing Up & Leaving ]

[ Going Into The Unknown ]
[ Since All Of Your Life Insurance Has Been Blown ]

[ Why Should She Stay? ]
[ Another Week? ]
[ Or Another Day ]

[ Would You Want To Bet ]
[ That You Will Not Even Find Your Favorite Jacket? ]

[ Would That Be Given To The Goodwill Store? ]
[ Since It Does Not Have A Purpose Anymore? ]

[ Did You Cherish Money Over Time Spent With Others? ]
[ When You Did Find The Time ]
[ You Chose To Stay Under Your Covers ]

[ How Come There Is Not A Single Clue ]
[ That There Has Been Any Footprint Made By You? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(350)▪︎[ Giving Up … 8-15-2025 ]

[ You Feel Like You Are Giving Up ]
[ You Are Catching Your Tears ]
[ By Using Your Coffee Cup ]

[ You Are Feeling Like Your Life Source ]
[ Seems To Be Leaving Your Body ]
[ It Feels Like You Do Not Have Any Kind Of Protective Force ]
[ Keeping Your Head From Getting Foggy ]

[ You Have Tried All Of Your Adult Life ]
[ To Be A Good Husband, Father, Friend & Man ]
[ To Others, Like Your Son & Your Wife ]
[ While Also Wishing That They Would Become Your Biggest Fans ]

[ The Sparkle Has Been Leaving Your Eyes ]
[ For Several Years Now ]
[ Only You Can See Your Pain & Hear Your Cries ]
[ You Would Like To Express This To Others, But You Do Not Know How ]

[ Everyone Is Way To Busy ]
[ To See Your Pain ]
[ To Others They Might See You As Lazy ]
[ & A Little Bit Insane ]
[ Some People That Knows You, Might Want To Call You Crazy ]
[ But Thankfully, Most Of Them Refrain ]

[ Sometimes All You Hear Is The Riot ]
[ In Your Head ]
[ Why Can’t You Have A Single Night Of Quiet ]
[ Instead? ]

[ The Other Times Your Thoughts Are Like A Spinning Top ]
[ There Have Been Many That You Will Feel Like A Flop ]
[ Whenever That Happens ]
[ It Is So Obvious That Is The Reason Why Your Self-Esteem Will Take A Sudden Drop ]

[ Your Marriage Feels Like It Is Falling ]
[ Off A Cliff ]
[ Nobody Ever Feels Like Calling ]
[ To Give You That Much Needed Lift ]

[ You Used To Have ]
[ So Many Names In Your Rolodex ]
[ Now You Don’t Even See ½ ]
[ That Many Names To Text ]

[ When You Are Smack Dab In The Middle Of A Major Crisis ]
[ You Reach For One Of Your Electronic Devices ]

[ But When You Look Through Your Contacts List ]
[ You Have No Idea Who To Call ]
[ When You Get Upset You Clench Your Fists ]
[ All That Does Is Make You Flashback To When Frustration Caused You To Hit A Wall ]

[ But You Are Not Angry, You Are Emotionally Hurt ]
[ You Start To Feel That Your Blood Pressure Has Bottomed Out ]
[ Will Anyone Be Able To See Your Broken Heart Through Your Shirt? ]
[ That Is Just One Of The Many Things That You Doubt ]

[ Your Wife Has Said That She Hates What You Have Changed ]
[ Into ]
[ Nobody Understands What Your Brain ]
[ Has Been Through ]

[ Maybe Your Thought Process ]
[ Cannot Be Fixed ]
[ That Causes You To Feel Lost ]
[ Because You Feel As Strong As A House That Has Been Built With Match Sticks ]

[ When You Text, “I Give Up” To Your Friends, That Was A Cry For Help ]
[ Now You Feel Like You Should Have Kept Your Vulnerability ]
[ On A Garage Shelf ]
[ Because Someone With Your Type Of Personality ]
[ Should Have Reached Out On “Yelp” ]

[ You Have Kind Of Felt ]
[ Throughout The Years That You Are Like An Aquired Taste ]
[ Your Inner Circle Is Getting Smaller Like The Tightening Of The Belt ]
[ That You Wear Around Your Waist ]

[ It Is Not Crystal Clear ]
[ Where Things Will Be Going From Here ]

[ You Really Have To Get Your Thoughts Straight ]
[ You Cannot Wait ]
[ You Need To Take Your Future, Your Fate ]
[ Into Your Own Hands ]
[ Post Haste ]

[ Get Back To Living As “One” With Your Spouse ]
[ So You Will Have, Once Again ]
[ A Harmonious House ]
[ Right When Your Days Begin ]
[ Stop Being A Grouch ]
[ Do Things That Can Be Looked @ As A “Win-Win” ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
Aloha

Na
Lopaka DeVoe

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(275)▪︎[ The Twist … 2025 ]

[ What If Your Life Was Turned Upside Down & Twisted To The Left? ]
[ Then Twisted Back To The Right? ]
[ Would You Have To Watch Your Step ]
[ Before You Are Able To Turn On The Light? ]

[ Life Is Like That ]
[ It Seems To Be A Proveable Fact ]
[ That You Are Raised & Directed On How To Act ]

[ If Other’s Are Acting In Front Of You ]
[ How Do You Continue ]
[ Knowing What To Do? ]

[ Do You Just Want To Wing It? ]
[ Bit By Bit ]

[ Everything Counts ]
[ But If You Are Not Careful ]
[ The Bills Will Mount ]
[ & Then You Would Have To Empty Your Bilfold ]

[ Then Where Are You @ ]
[ If You Keep Eating Processed Food ]
[ You Could Get Fat ]
[ & That Wouldn’t Be Good ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(317)▪︎[ Life … 2026 ]

[ Can A Person Have A Disability & A Talent @ The Same Time? ]
[ It Seems Like It Would Be A Crime ]
[ If Someone Spent All Of Their Days On This Earth ]
[ Not Accomplishing Something Sublime ]
[ To Improve Their Worth ]

[ Improving Yourself Is What You Are Born To Do ]
[ That Is How You ]
[ Work Things Through ]

[ You Need To Know What Just Happened?]
[ When? ]
[ Right Then ]

[ You Will Need Congratulations ]
[ Because Of The Comparisons ]

[ ½ The House Was Standing ]
[ The Other ½ Was Demanding ]

[ Would Someone Yell @ You For The Hell Of It? ]
[ Saying Something Completely Irrelevant? ]
[ Would That Make You Feel Spent? ]
[ So Now You Are Scrambling For Next Month’s Rent! ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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(041)▪︎[ What Happened Next? … 2026 ]

[ You Laughed With Blaine Like Time Was Something You Could Bend ]
[ You Felt There Was Nothing Said ]
[ That You Would Have To Defend ]
[ & In Your Head ]
[ You Wished Moments Like This, With Her, Would Never End ]

[ Whenever Blaine Put Her Hand In Yours It Felt Steady, Warm & True ]
[ Did The World Finally Make Sense To You? ]
[ Were The Thoughts Of Your Future No Longer Looking Blue? ]

[ The Color Blue Makes Sense For The Sky Or The Ocean ]
[ But There Are Days When You Feel That All You Are Doing ]
[ Is Blindly Going Through The Motions ]
[ Without Either Giving Or Feeling ]
[ Any Devotion ]

[ From Either Side Of The So-Called Family Dimension ]
[ Maybe More Dissension ]
[ Than Connection ]

[ But Blaine Was Different ]
[ She Was Very Confident ]
[ Without Any Sign Of Arrogance ]
[ She Was Very Intelligent ]
[ With No Sign Of Ignorance ]

[ She Loved To Write ]
[ After Work, She Enjoyed Going To The Kickboxing Gym ]
[ To Learn How To Defend Herself @ Night ]
[ She Loved Feeling Slim ]
[ But Also She Loved Knowing How To Fight ]

[ Her First Marriage Was One Violent Domestic Abuse Incident After Another ]
[ It Got So Bad, She Had To Go (3) States Over ]
[ To Live With Her Big, Protective Brother ]
[ Never Again Did She Have To Run For Cover ]
[ & Thankfully Her Divorce Attorney Was Her Mother ]

[ She Took Everything From Her Spouse ]
[ His Nice Car ]
[ & The Nice House ]

[ She Wanted To Start Living A New Life ]
[ Without Being Told That All That She Would Ever Be ]
[ Is A Beaten Down Wife ]
[ She Wanted To See ]
[ What The World Could Be Like ]
[ Minus The Strife ]

[ That’s Where You Came Into The Picture ]
[ When You Just By Chance ]
[ Met Her ]
[ Through Happenstance ]
[ It Was You, That Just Wasn’t Sure ]

[ Because You Were Starting Over Again, Also ]
[ When You Both Started Talking & Sharing ]
[ You Did Not Actually Know ]
[ If She Was All That Caring ]

[ But When You Stopped Being So Guarded ]
[ The Feelings For Each Other Actually Started ]

[ You & Blaine Loved To Go On Long Walks ]
[ With Her (2) Very Large Dogs ]
[ Engaging In Long Talks ]
[ & Watching Freckles & Roxie Jumping Over Logs ]

[ It Wasn’t Love & First Sight ]
[ When You Took Her Out For A Bite ]
[ It Was Her Face Glowing In The Moonlight ]
[ That Made You Feel That This Was Going To Be Alright ]

[ Blaine ]
[ Had Been Put Through So Much Physical Pain ]
[ It Was The Emotional & Mental Kind ]
[ That You Had To Sustain ]
[ But All (3) Of Those Really Messes With A Person’s Mind ]
[ It Was All (3) Of Those That You Had Come To Disdain ]

[ You Never Had Any Premonition ]
[ If This Would Go The Distance ]
[ You Sure Could Use Your Imagination ]
[ If You Wanted To For Instance ]

[ But Love Can Fade Without A Sign ]
[ Or A Sound ]
[ All Of A Sudden There Could Be A Problem You Find ]
[ That Has You Kind Of Looking Around ]
[ You Think That It Is Benign ]
[ But Then You Are Knocked To The Ground ]

[ In The Blink Of An Eye ]
[ You Heard That Blaine Had Been Spending Alot Of Time With Another Guy ]
[ Her Upstairs Neighbor, Ryan ]
[ When You Started Asking, “Why?” ]
[ She Stuttered & Started Lying ]

[ You Didn’t Want To Hear Anymore ]
[ So You Decided To Go Home ]
[ When You Got To Your Place & Closed The Door ]
[ You Really Started Feeling Alone ]

[ It Would Be Quite The Find ]
[ If You Had A Dime ]
[ Everytime You Tried To Rewind ]
[ The Times ]
[ That You Watched The Hands Of The Clock Go Past The (9) ]

[ In The Darkness ]
[ Of The Evening ]
[ You Could Feel The Starkness ]
[ Because The Silence Was Deafening ]

[ But Then The Phone Rang … ]

~ 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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(210)▪︎[ Someday … 2026 ]

[ Right Now Your Heart Can’t Stop Breaking ]
[ Your Whole Body Won’t Stop Shaking ]
[ These Are A Couple Emotions That You Are Not Faking ]

[ You Don’t Have A Spare Tear To Shed ]
[ When You Used To Be Down ]
[ You Would Reminisce About That Day You Were Wed ]
[ Now You Feel Like A Clown ]
[ As You Sit Here On Your Huge, King Sized Bed ]

[ What Do You Do Now? ]
[ You Have To Try To Start Over ]
[ You Just Don’t Know How ]

[ For Starters ]
[ You Need To Be The Thermostat ]
[ Not The Thermometer ]

[ Control Where The Temperature Goes ]
[ Be The Gauge Where The Temperature Shows ]

[ Do Not Bow Your Head & Shrink ]
[ Don’t Sink ]
[ In The Bottle & Drink ]

[ Don’t Let Your Broken Heart Lead ]
[ Don’t Slit Your Wrists So You Bleed ]
[ Surround Yourself With People You Love & Need ]

[ Don’t Quit ]
[ Hold Your Head High ]
[ Even Though You Might Feel Like Shit ]

[ Take The High Road ]
[ Carry The Brunt Of The Load ]
[ Take A Deep Breath & Don’t Explode ]

[ Even Though You Might Need A Breather ]
[ Things Will Someday Get Much Easier ]

~ Ka hopena ~

Mahalo nui loa
A hui hou kaua e kuu hoa

Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

~ Aloha ~

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