Comments on: Going Away

By: Meg Boone

Meg Boone — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:53:09 +0000

Letting Go

Fingers tight
Knuckles whitening
I will not let you go
I will not let you go

Heart strings
Plucked and Singing
I cannot let you go
I cannot let you go

Eyes glisten
Tears traveling
I must let you go
I must let you go

Breath exhaled
Words Dance in the air
Good-Bye
Good-Bye

Thank you for sharing your lovely poem, hope all are having a glorious day.

By: Jen Louden

Jen Louden — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:39:37 +0000

I adore your lightness on this going away! I’m reading this army daughters soccer game and cherishing these last years before she goes awwwaaaay. I love learning with you! I hope your new home is starting to feel more like here.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:33:37 +0000

I’m building a tree
to make a home in its leaves
sweet swaying branches
Eleanor’s last post … Swimming back to Bodh Gaya

By: Finding Home | Susan Piver

Finding Home | Susan Piver — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:16:14 +0000

[...] Hiro Boga, Jennifer Louden, Mahala Mazerov, and I have taken it upon ourselves to write on the same topic, and publish our work on the same day. This is the second time we’ve done this; the first time, our topic was writing. Today, it is home. Click on their names to read their lovely pieces. It is an honor to co-create with them! [...]

By: Mari

Mari — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:33:27 +0000

Lovely poem Hiro! And what you said in your comment “I shared with him the warmth of my sun so his own could take shape and light up the sky of his incarnation.” That is so beautiful, the true meaning of parenting. I wrote it on a piece of paper and hung it above my desk. Thank you for your words.
Mari’s last post … Piecing it together and why I love it

By: Mahala

Mahala — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:20:52 +0000

“The fun, and heartbreak of it.” It’s both isn’t it? I don’t remember the exact quotation, but there’s a quote from the Buddha that says something along the lines of “if you really understood the true nature of how things are, you would turn your head up at the sky and laugh.” I suspect you might cry, too. But laughing wins out over time.
Mahala’s last post … Longing for Home

By: Hiro Boga

Hiro Boga — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:02:46 +0000

Mahala, truthfully, I chuckled to myself the entire time I wrote this poem.

The nature of ice-cream is to melt. The nature of things is that they are impermanent. They transform, change shape, change pattern, become something else.

What was once my home has gone away. And all the time I’ve spent mourning it and longing for it, is time during which I’ve gone away from home too. Abandoned it as surely as I imagined myself abandoned. That’s the fun, and the heartbreak of it! :-)

As for my son–it’s time for his own sun to shine in his life. I shared with him the warmth of my sun so his own could take shape and light up the sky of his incarnation. My son is going away. And my life is beckoning me to a deeper, truer relationship with him, with wholeness, and with all that I love.
Hiro Boga’s last post … Going Away

By: Moving, Attachment, Loss, Gain « Off Trajectory

Moving, Attachment, Loss, Gain « Off Trajectory — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:38:49 +0000

[...] helping a friend pack up her home and start moving. This morning I read this lovely poem by Hiro Boga: Going Away and about Jen Louden’s determination to just stay put. The rupture that is moving is on my [...]

By: Mahala

Mahala — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:32:48 +0000

Beautiful Hiro. This brings tears. We all seem to be feeling what’s lost and longed for. I love how you find this in a melting ice cream cone, your six-foot tall baby boy, and your wailing for home.

Much love to you and thank you for being part of this rich collaboration.
Mahala’s last post … Longing for Home

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Tweets that mention Going Away -- Topsy.com — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:04:43 +0000

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