(614)▪︎[ Whatever It Takes … 7•7•2020 ]

[ How Do You Make It Through Each Day? ]
[ In A Stress Free Way? ]

[ Do You Turn To Your Spouse ]
[ When There Is Stress In The House? ]

[ Do You Lay It All Out On The Line? ]
[ When Things Are Not Doing Fine? ]

[ Or Do You Go Inside Your Mind ]
[ When The Words Are Of The Negative Kind? ]

[ Some People See The Need ]
[ To Go Straight Ahead ]
[ & Then See Where That Leads ]

[ Others Fall Back & Wait ]
[ Then Hope ]
[ That It Isn’t Too Late ]

[ To Be Strong ]
[ & Fix Whatever It Is That Has Gone Wrong ]

[ So The Relationship Can Keep Going On ]
[ Before All Is Lost ]
[ & The Love Is Gone ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ] [🤙]

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(008)▪︎[ His Wares … 1•3•2022 ]

[ Wherever Good Is Trying To Happen ]
[ Bad Is There To Stop It ]
[ It Is Always Just A Matter Of When ]

[ Good Things Don’t Stay Good For Very Long ]
[ & Sometimes You Need A Cord That Has (2) Prongs ]

[ It Would Not Be A Bad Choice ]
[ It Just Wasn’t The Right Choice ]

[ Maybe The Right Choice In A Different Situation ]
[ You Will Have To Get Someone Else’s Attention ]

[ It Does Not Matter ]
[ If You Hear The Pitter Patter ]

[ Of Something On The Roof ]
[ Because Nobody Needs The Proof ]

[ That Old St. Nick Was There ]
[ To Share ]
[ His Wares ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

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(171)▪︎[ Whatever Happens … Happens … 2•25•2021 ]

[ You Guessed That People Really Do Come & Go ]
[ In Your Life ]
[ & They May Go Slow ]
[ In The Night ]

[ Or They May Go Fast ] 
[ During The Day ]
[ You Guessed Not Everything Lasts ]
[ As You Watch Another Person Drift Away ]

[ All Because Of Something That You Text ]
[ That Sounded Too Complex? ]

[ You Guessed We Both Had Too Thin Of Skin On That
     Text Exchange ]
[ Does That Mean Things Need To Change? ]

[ You Really Don’t Know About That One Act ]
[ All You Are Going On, Is How You See Her React ]

[ & That Was Not Good ]
[ Or Were Your Words ]
[ Completely Misunderstood? ]

[ You Think That They Were ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

[  Na  ]
[  Lopaka DeVoe  ]

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(375)▪︎[ What We Do … 4•15•2020 ]

[ What We Do Now ]
[ Will Greatly Affect Our Tomorrow ]
[ We Don’t Want To Somehow ]
[ Turn The Next Day Into Sorrow ]

[ As We In Someway ]
[ Try To Protect Our Wealth ]
[ Throughout The Day ]
[ We Need To Take Care Of Our Health ]

[ Sorrow Can Come In Many Forms ]
[ & Be So Disruptive ]
[ It Can Change Our Norms ]

[ Is It A Constructive Way, Given Only To Help? ]
[ Is It Like Getting Positive Marks, On The
     Next Entry OnYelp? ]

[ But Remarks Can Be Positive ]
[ Or Negative ]

[ I’ve Given Both ]
[ I’m Sure There Were Some People ]
[ Who Hated What I Wrote ]
[ So When They Can Complain ]
[ I’d Say ( WHAT EVER FLOATS YOUR BOAT ) ]

~ Ka hopena ~

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

(401)▪︎[ Whatever & Whenever … 5•10•2021 ]

[ Why Do My Ears Hurt When I Walk My Car Home? ]
[ It Is Like My Hands Go Dizzy From The Loud Honks Waving From  
     The Guy Floating On The Picnic Merry-Go-Round ]
[ Why Do They Feel So Quiet? ]
[ Why Does It Hurt My Bellybutton Everytime I Sneeze? ]
[ Pepper Does That To Me When I Am Cold, Sitting On My 
     Shower Couch ]
[ I Have Seen It Both Ways × 4 ]
[ Why Doesn’t Blue, Yellow Or Pink Start With An ( S )? ]
[ ( OKAY ) Is Not A Dressed Up Answer ]
[ Maybe Because They Are No Longer Sold In Pairs ]
[ Now If They Were Sold In The Condiments Section @ Disneyland,
     They Would Not ]
[ What Is Yours? ]
[ Orange Is The New Vegetable ]
[ Mine, Was Too + 5 =3 ]
[ I Agreed To That Objection When I Yawned, About It 2 Weeks
     Ago ]
[ Speaking Of Blue, Why Are Tennis Shoes Like They Are? ]
[ But I Don’t Agree With The Soup That You Spoke ]
[ @ Times It Itches Like You Just Shoot From Your Pocket ] [ Really? ]
[ With All Of That, I Have Not Gone Under? ]
[ That Does Not Make Two Cents ]
[ I Think You Should ]
[ Again & Again, Like I Said ( HEY! ) Next Week ]
[ Betsy Ross Wanted To Sew Circles In The Flag, But She Got
     Tackled Before She Could Eat ]
[ That Did Not Sound Fair Before The Sun Came Up ]
[ Does Purple Really Smell Like Chicken? ]
[ If You Took The Number 27, Please Put It Back ]
[ When Does 4 + 7 = 9? ]
[ Right Then ]
[ I Thought Only Green Did That In March ]
[ Speaking Of March … ]
[ Well? ]
[ If My Watch Had Clouds In The Water,  How Much Time Did You
     Save? ]
[ Try It Yesterday, It Really Does Make You Giggle ]
[ Because There Are Bubbles @ The Beginning ]
[ If It Happened Next Year, It Would Never, Ever Taste Like That ]
[ But Don’t Take The Apple Cake Out Of My Blender, Yet ]
[ I Will Never Get It ]
[ Because It Only Triangulates Twice In That Lady’s Life ]
[ It Won’t Be Before The Moon Sets ]
[ Did You Know That Grass Has Not Only Been The Color
     Green? ]
[ It Has Been … ]
[ Only On Days That Rhyme With  Orange ]
[ My Teddy Bear Just Yelled @ You ]
[ Umbrellas Do Not Help You Tan ]
[ But Banana’s Do Float In Jello ]
[ Only The Rainbow Kind ]
[ When Jack & Jill Went For Water, Why Didn’t They Just Turn The
     Oven On? ]
[ Did You Know That The Three Bears Only Drank Coffee? ]
[ Black With Sugar, Cream & Whipped Cream ]
[ When Humpty Fell Was He Then Sunny Side Up? ]
[ Why Didn’t Little Red Riding Hood Or Little Bo Peep Ever Wear
     Underwear? ]
[ Both Of Them Wore Men’s Boxers ]
[ How Come Chocolate Is Red When You Sneeze On It? ]
[ When The Pied Piper Had All Of Those Mice Following Him There
      Was No Sign Of His Pet Chicken Anywhere Around ]
[ Why Was That? ]
[ The Mice Eventually Deciduated From The Piper Because He
     Would Not Ever Play Jazz ]
[ Did Jack Run Away From Jill Because He Was Jealous? ]
[ Jill Had A Thing For The JOLLY GREEN GIANT ]
[ Anatomically Speaking, He Knew That He Would Not Ever
     Measure Up ]
[ I Have Never Seen Anybody Sing In The Rain ]
[ I Am Not Wearing Any Panty Hose Right Now ]
[ I Felt That You Should Know ]
[ Did You Know That Little Jack Horner Was Lactose Intolerant? ] [ I Trust You On That One ]
[ Why Couldn’t The Jolly Green Giant Cross-Fit? ]
[ Was It Because He Lost His Phone? ]
[ The Big Bad Wolf Had Horrendous Smelling Hands & He Has
     A CBD GUMMIES Business ]
[ The Three Little Pigs Built Their Three Houses Using Non-Union
     Workers ]
[ I Saw Outside Of A Magazine That The Other Year That Some
     Elephants Are Allergic To Peanut Butter & Banana Jelly Ritz
     Crackers ]
[ It Is Because Of The Smell Of The Vanilla Bean ]
[ @ Times They Feel Fuzzy ]
[ Fuzzy Is A Funny Word ]
[ Fuzzy Is Not Just A Word, It Is A Funny Feeling ]
[ Right? ]
[ Well I Guess This Should Be The Beginning & I You Can Have
     Two Of Them ]
[ This Was Sent With Much Love To Try To Make You Smile In
     Such A Turbulent & Deciduous Time ]
[ Okay … Good Talk ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]

(395)▪︎[ Whatever It Takes … 5•9•2021 ]

[ Every Morning When I Wake ]
[ I Have To Take ]
[ 3 Tylenol For My Pounding Headache ]

[ Because I Am Still Missing You ]
[ & All The Things That We Used To Do ]

[ One Of My Biggest Mistakes ]
[ Was Letting You Walk ]
[ Because All I Do Now, Is Ache ]

[ If I’m Too Late ]
[ With What I’ve Said ]
[ Please Tell Me What I’m Supposed To Say? ]

[ How Come ]
[ I Feel So Numb? ]

[ Is This Real? ]
[ Is This How I Will Always Feel? ]

[ @ Times I Have Thought So Loud All The Speakers In My
     Head Have Blown ]
[ Worried All The Time, Of The Unknown ]

[ All Of The Alcohol ]
[ & Adderall ]

[ Should Have Burned Up By Now ]
[ If Time Is Not The Answer ]
[ I Don’t Know How ]

[ Because Of All Of The Therapy Sessions ]
[ My Mind Is Filled With Too Many Questions ]

[ I Don’t Think It Is Up To You ]
[ I Will Cry, If I Want To ]

[ Conscience ]
[ This ]

[ I Am Jealous Of Others Friends ]
[ Because They Come Out & Jump In ] 

[ I Can Never Measure Up To What I Was ]
[ I Can’t Compare Myself To What Another Man Does ]
[ Was All Of This Said ( JUST BECAUSE )? ]

~ The End ~

[ Mahalo ]
[ A hui hou aku ]
[ Aloha ]   ‎ 
  ‎
[ Na ]
[ Lopaka DeVoe ]