Liz Lanigan

In Sight

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars
mirrored in your own being. – Rumi

ten days of silence at the Vipassana stillness on the outside turmoil within diminishing day by day until a single breath passes through my body unrestricted and then another oh the peace of being with other meditators inhaling exhaling we are the nothingness of everything the everlasting wonder of an ever-changing now

silk lake
reflections scatter
in the rain
I close my eyes
… see as it is … as it is

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About the Author

Liz Lanigan has been in the tanka community for about eight years. Her tanka and tanka prose have been published in various journals. She is currently the tanka prose editor for the Tanka Society of America’s journal, Ribbons.