2025 ]

[ Have You Ever Felt That You Are In The Middle Of The “Sea of Humanity” Just Sitting In A Liferaft Without A Set Of Oars? ]
[ Running Away From The Land ]
[ Because There Is Nothing Left For You That Is Positive On Any Of The Oceans Shore’s ]

[ You Have Tried To Drive Away ]
[ But That Only Lasted For A Day ]
[ Because In Some Way ]

[ It Didn’t Feel Right ]
[ For You To Take Your Fight ]
[ Well Into The Night ]

[ When You Set Out On Your Raft ]
[ Those That You Felt Were Friends ]
[ Stood @ The Shore & Laughed ]

[ By The Time That You Started Looking For Your Oars, It Was Too Late ]
[ For You To Anticipate ]
[ The Waves ]
[ That Would Dictate ]
[ Your Fate ]

[ What To Do? ]
[ What To Do? ]
[ The Waves Are Starting To Look Green ]
[ Because The Sky No Longer Looked Blue ]

[ All You See Now Are Dark Clouds ]
[ It Reminds You Of Those Many Times ]
[ When You Felt Alone Being In Crowds ]

[ There Would Be Chattering All Around You ]
[ Making It Sound Like You Were Standing By A Chicken Coop ]
[ But This Is Nothing New ]
[ You Know This Type Of Group ]

[ They Are There To Demoralize ]
[ They Try To Emphasize ]
[ That They Never Empathize ]
[ As They Cut You Down To Size ]
[ & Dehumanize ]

[ The Main Problem? ]
[ That Is The Most Positive Side To Them ]

[ The Up & Down Motion Of The Waves ]
[ Are In Control Of Your Life ]
[ It Is How Mother Nature Shows How She Can Misbehave ]
[ & Not Be So Nice ]

[ When You Try To Look Towards The South ]
[ The Waves Throw Water Into Your Mouth ]

[ When You Try To Look To The North ]
[ You Sit Down Quickly ]
[ Because The Waves Keep Tossing Your Raft Back & Forth ]

[ You Have No Idea In Which Direction You Are Going ]
[ It Is Really Tough Not Knowing ]
[ Now The Wind Is Blowing ]

[ Coming In From The East ]
[ Not Letting You Rest ]
[ So Your Mind Is Not @ Peace ]

[ You Start Trying To Clear Your Mind ]
[ Oh, How You Wish That Someone Would Throw You A Life Line ]
[ But You Know That Won’t Happen ]
[ Because Humanity Is Not That Kind ]

Mahalo Nui Loa
Na,
Lopaka DeVoe

(427)▪︎[ The Waves … 4•28•2020 ]

[ The Sounds Of The Ocean Are Soooo Relaxing ]
[ Being In The City Is Overly Taxing ]

[ Imagining The Waves Is Very Soothing ]
[ It’s Your Stress ]
[ That It’s Smoothing ]

[ Wave After Wave Comes Crashing In ]
[ You Know Where It Ends ]
[ But You Have No Idea Where They Begin ]

[ Is It Way Way Out There In The Middle? ]
[ If You Were Dumped In That Water ]
[ You Would Be As Visible ]
[ As A Thimble ]

[ In A Pile Of Hay ]
[ You’d Never Want To Die That Way ]

[ Back To Soothing Your Mind ]
[ You Will Think Of The Waves ]
[ When You Are In A Bind ]

[ & Remember The Sounds ]
[ But There Will Be No Boats, No Sailing, No Cruises ]
[ You Feet Will Be Planted Firmly On Dry Ground ]

[ Waves Are An Amazing & Oftentimes Frightful Act Of Nature ]
[ If There Ever Would Be A Time That You Turn Your Back
To The Ocean ]
[ You Would Not See, Hear Or Sense The Danger ]

[ That You Put Yourself In ]
[ You Will Not Know That You Were About To Fight For Your Life ]
[ With A Force Of Nature That Usually Wins ]

[ Sneaker Waves Can Come In About Three-Stories High ]
[ You Wouldn’t Even Have The Time ]
[ To Wave Goodbye ]

[ When It Crashes Over You & Pushes You Down Into The Sand ]
[ All It Wants To Do ]
[ Is Pull Me Away From Dry Land ]

[ As You Frantically Struggle To Survive ]
[ Your Will To Live ]
[ Keeps You Alive ]

[ When You’re Able To Run To The Sand That’s Dry ]
[ & Say That You Weren’t Scared ]
[ Your Eyes Would Tell Everyone That Was A Lie ]

[ Then You Thought (WHAT SHOULD I HAD EXPECTED?) ]
[ (WHEN THE OCEAN FELT DISRESPECTED?) ]

[ Then You Sat There, With A Tear In Your Eye ]
[ That A Careless Mistake ]
[ Almost Caused You To Die ]

[ As Memories Of Your Life Flashed ]
[ You Heard The Water Splash ]

[ You Just Thought ]

[ It’s Kind Of Sad As You Watched The Waves Come To An End ]
[ The Waves Really Showed ]
[ That Water Can Break & Bend ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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[336]▪︎[ Sea Of Tranquility … 5•7•2022 ]

[ I Was Lost On The Sea Of Tranquility ]
[ I Had No Oar Or Motor ]
[ There Was No Ability ]

[ To Get To An Island ]
[ Or Dry Sand ]

[ Water ]
[ & Falter ]

[ Surrounded Me ]
[ It Seemed That All I Could See ]
[ Was The Sea ]

[ I Do Not Normally Give Up On Something Without A Fight ]
[ But I Could Not See Any Help In Sight ]

[ When I Had No Oar ]
[ I Could Not Paddle For ]

[ Or In Any Direction ]
[ When You Are On The Ocean ]
[ It Is Hard To Make Corrections ]

[ When In The The Calm, You Are A Sitting Duck ]
[ When The Big Waves Come ]
[ You Are Totally Fucked ]

[ You Are @ The Mercy Of Nature ]
[ So There Are So Many Situations Where You Are Not So Sure ]

[ Right Now, The Sky Is Incredibly Blue ]
[ All Of Those Stories About The Ocean Sky’s Were True ]

[ It Is The Water Where You Must Show Concern ]
[ Even If The Sun Is The Natural Thing That Will Burn ]

[ What Are Your Plans ]
[ Once You Get Back To Land? ]

[ When? ]
[ What About If? ]
[ & If Then? ]

[ How Do You Not Get Into This Predicament Again? ]
[ How Can You Tell If It Is Starting To Begin? ]

[ Once You Put Your First Foot In That Specific Boat? ]
[ Do You Yell (WHOA!) ]

[ Words Are Going To Stop You? ]
[ Says Who? ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [酪]

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(048)▪︎[ The Ocean Just Takes … 1•13•2020 ]

[ The Ocean Rarely Relinquishes What It Takes ]
[ Sometimes Widows Are What It Makes ]

[ When You Turn Your Back On The King Tide ]
[ It Will Take Your Feet Out From Under You ]
[ & Then Take You For A Ride ]
[ Whoever Told You That The Ocean Is Harmless ]
[ Looked You Straight In The Eyes & Lied ]

[ Another Victim, Another Day ]
[ Be Naive About The Power Of The Ocean ]
[ & It Could Sweep You Away ]

[ @ Times The Water Is So Calm & Low ]
[ You Say ]
[ Hiding With The Next Wave Is An Undertow ]
[ That Might Be Today ]

[ You Don’t See The Undertow, Until It Grabs You By The Feet ]
[ Before You Know It, You’re Knocked Down On To Your Seat ]
[ Swim Hard Against It ]
[ Before You Give In To Defeat ]

[ Today Two Children Lost Their Lives After Being Taken From
Their Father’s Arms ]
[ Oh The Water Is So Calm & Shallow ]
[ Playing In The Waves Will Bring No Harm ]

[ A Sneaker Wave Came Out Of The Blue ]
[ It Almost Had Three Lives ]
[ But Then Settled On Two ]

[ The Father Was Saved But The Son & Daughter Wasn’t ]
[ In Regular Water The Body’s Would Be Given Back ]
[ But The Ocean Doesn’t ]

[ The Ocean Waves Could Be Called A Thief ]
[ By Stealing Two Children’s Lives ]
[ & Creating A Lifetime Of Grief ]

[ That Some ]
[ Families ]
[ Never Recover From ]
[ The Father Will Probably Forever Be Numb ]

[ Oh, The Water Is Calm ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(1165)▪︎[ Down By The Ocean … 9•16•2019 ]

[ When You Close Your Eyes, What Do You See? ]
[ Are You Playing In The Sand? ]
[ @ The Edge Of The Sea? ]
[ You See Someone Running Towards You ]
[ & You Begin To Wonder (WHO CAN THAT BE?) ]

[ Then In The Blink Of Your Eye ]
[ There’s No More Guy ]
[ But, You Didn’t See Him Run Right By ]

[ So Where Did He Go? ]
[ He Wasn’t Going Slow ]

[ But He Wasn’t Going All That Fast ]
[ He Didn’t Run Past ]

[ You ]
[ Who? ]

[ Was He? ]
[ Why Can’t You See ]

[ Him, Anymore? ]
[ Did He Disappear Through A Door? ]

[ But Why Would A Door Be On The Beach? ]
[ & Then Have The Doorknob Just Out Of Reach? ]

[ But If You Can’t Grasp It, How Could He? ]
[ It Just Goes To Show ]
[ Anything Can Happen Down By The Sea ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo E Ka hoa ]
[ A hui hou ]
[ Aloha ]

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(416)▪︎[ See The Sea For Free … 4•25•2020 ].

[ The Sounds Of The Ocean Really Make Me Calm ]
[ Splashing Up On A Beach Lined With Trees Of Palm ]

[ It Is Such A Soothing Sound ]
[ That Helps Keep My Feet ]
[ Firmly Planted On The Ground ]
[ & Nothing Beats ]
[ The Sound Of Nobody Around ]

[ Watching & Being On The Ocean ]
[ Are Two Way Different Things ]
[ Being On The Water, Feeling The Motion ]
[ Sickness Is What It Brings ]

[ I Can’t See The End Of The Ocean, But I Know
It Is Out There ]
[ Somewhere ]

[ On The Other Side Of The World ]
[ Do The Women Have Dark Straight Hair ]
[ Or Blonde Strands Of Curls ]

[ Nobody Really Knows What All Lives Way Down Deep In
The Water ]
[ On The Other Side Of The Ocean ]
[ Is The Sun Any Hotter? ]

[ I’ll Never Truly Know What’s On That Other Side ]
[ I Thought Someone Told Me Something Years Ago ]
[ But I Think They Lied ]

[ What They Said, Sounded To Be Too Unbelievably True ]
[ I Do Love It When I Hear That The Water Is A Dark Blue ]

[ The Sounds, The Smell & The Sand ]
[ When You See The Never Ending Water ]
[ You Know That This Was Made by God’s Hand ]

[ It’s So Peaceful On the Sand When You Go For A Long Long Walk ]
[ If Anyone Dares To Go With You ]
[ Politely TELL Them { PLEASE DON’t TALK! } ]

[ Clearing My Mind Is What The Sounds Of The Ocean Does ]
[ The Reason To Go Is So Simple ]
[ I Go … Just Because ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(451)▪︎[ Mesmerizing … 5•3•2020 ]

[ The Beach Waves Have Such A Calming Sound ]
[ As The Waves Crash Onto The Ground ]

[ Then They Go Slowly Back Into The Sea ]
[ The Way They Move ]
[ Baffles Me ]

[ Is It The Pull Of The Moon ]
[ That Makes The Waves ]
[ Or The Heat Of The Sun @ Noon ]
[ That Makes The Water Concave ]

[ The Motion Of The Water Is Mesmerizing ]
[ The Sound Is Tranquilizing ]

[ I Can See How The Ocean Looks So Tame ]
[ But If You Turn Your Back ]
[ You Yourself Would Take The Blame ]

[ Sneaker Waves Are Properly Named As They Are ]
[ When A Wave Takes A Person By Surprise ]
[ It Can Drag Them Out Really Far ]

[ & Usually They Are Never To Be Seen Again ]
[ When A Wave Starts A Fight ]
[ It Usually Wins ]

[ Then The Mourning Period Starts ]
[ Because People Are Not Used To Being Apart ]

[ Yet ]

~ Ka hopena ~

[ Mahalo iā ‘oe ]
[ A hui hou mākou ]
[ Aloha ] ‎
‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]