“Slow down,” said the snail;
“Stop, smell the fragrant red rose,
Breathe, live life purely!”
Live life fully, don't just exist - says the snail. A #Haiku #Japanese #poetry Click To Tweet
A Haiku is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five; traditionally evoking images of the natural world
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Lovely !!
A beautiful messsge in haiku.
Thank you so much Shraddha 🙂
beautiful
Thank you Aroraji 🙂 So happy to see you on Drishti again after so long 🙂
So true! I guess in this fast paced life we often tend to forget this!
We almost forget till something hits us hard… 🙂 Thanks Arun 🙂
A very beautiful and important thought. Most people while in their races forget to live.
Bilkul… and it’s the most pathetic thing to happen to anyone.. what’s the point of living??
Thanks Kishor 🙂
Good to slow down.
Totally Arun… Thanks 🙂
Lovely 🙂
Thanks MS 🙂
Simply beautiful! It’s not absolute fact! Mere breathing is not living. One should live the life. The haiku simply nailed it! 👍👍
Thank you so much Rakesh 🙂
Nice
Thanks Rupam 🙂
love
Thanks Iku 🙂
Good one.
Thanks In 🙂
Nice one Archana!!!
Thank you so much Sneh 🙂
Lovely haiku…Wish the world could pause to learn from snails.. It would have been a wonderful world.. good that flowers take their time to bloom and don’t try or struggle to make it in a hurry like we humans do.. Slow and steady may not win the race but they do enjoy living.. ha, ha.. I could relate myself with the ‘snail’ here.. RS:)
Hi RS.. I knew you would appreciate this one.. 🙂 And yes, wishful thinking but the world would surely be a better place if everyone stopped to smell a rose… 🙂
And nope – you are not a snail from any angle… 🙂 Cheers buddy!! 🙂
Thanks Archana… for cheery cheers… I feel emboldened… RS
Awesome thought very nice haiku.
Thanks much Aniruddha 🙂
Life is more about collecting moments and not things. Insightful haiku…Archana!! wonderful!!
So true, you said my girl 🙂 Thank you! 🙂
Nice one Archana ji . Good message in Haiku form !!
Thank you so much Yogiji 🙂
Love and live the life to the fullest 🙂 Nice haiku
True true Ranjana… welcome to Drishti…and thank you for the compliment 🙂
A beautiful message portrayed with great intensity! :’)
Thanks M… glad you liked it to so much 🙂
Did I tell you that I used to envy the snail? Sweet and slow thing 😀
Hahaha, seriously? 🙂 Super sweet actually… 🙂
Intense and poignant piece d’ resistance, I must say
Hello Swayam, welcome to Drishti…
Thank you so much for your kind words 🙂
Good one 🙂
Thanks Swati 🙂
Too touchy Message, Archana.. Every thing in Nature Teaches us however insignificant it may appear to be.. It reminds me the old story of a king who lost in the war and escaping from the enemies was protected by a spider which wove its own web at the entrance of the very cave in which the kind hid himself temporarily giving an impression to the enemies that none could go inside without braking the web.. Well said!
Wow.. that is so insightful sir… Also reminds me of the story where the lion didn’t eat the rat because it was so little and ultimately when the lion got caught in a hunter’s net, it was the rat who bit it to pieces and saved the lion… 🙂
Thank you so much for spreading your wisdom amongst all of us always Sreedhar sir 🙂
You s-nailed it 😉 Lovely read Archana x
Aww… lovely play of words… thank you so much Jyothi… Always happy to see you in my little space 🙂 Much love!
a Great thought that is..sadly not many people follow
Thanks Polomi… and it is never too late to follow it… I just hope the world realises it, in good time… 🙂
Wow..!! That is such a beautiful haiku Archana.. Loved it totally!
Cheers
Thank you so much Geets 🙂
Perfect lesson from the snail! 😀 Loved the character you used here 🙂
Thanks Ranjini.. so much to learn from that little character, right? 🙂
Welcome to Drishti, my friend 🙂
Wow! This is my favorite haiku of yours till date. It is so deep.
Beautiful 🙂
A lovely Haiku Archana :)) Indeed nature is awesome.
Thank you Prasanna… yes indeed 🙂
Aesome one Archie 🙂
Thank you Anjali 🙂
Yes I so agree, slowing down has its benefits 😀
LOL yes Mridula… esp for frequent travellers 😉
A message worth remembering 🙂
Thanks Sims 🙂
Totally agree…sharing this now.
Thank you Ami 🙂
Wonderful one ,In these rat race days..
Oh yes Sadhvi… well said… the crazy rat race!!
Great message, Archana. 🙂
Thank you Ravish 🙂
nice one again, well done nice message
Thank you Kashif 🙂
That snail is so right man. We miss out on details of living. 🙂 Archie
LOL… what an irony na Tara… the snail is right and teaching us a thing or two about life 😉 hugs!
Very beautiful, all ur haikus are!!! And enriching. Pleasent to read, imagine and enjoy.
Hello Aiza – welcome to Drishti…
Thank you so much for your kind words 🙂
Very apt Haiku. Unfortunately many exist and don’t even bother to live as they should.
So true Fayazji… it’s all thanks to the rat race that we are in!
Thanks for stopping by… 🙂
Ah, I’ve begun to realised how well this can apply to each of us! We just forget to live, while we’re busy trying to keep up and compete with things around us! 🙂
So true Priyanka… it’s time we treated ourselves well 🙂 isn’t it?