111 responses to “Haiku: Life”

1. Nice

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2. How thoughtful.. 🙂

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3. It is an amazing personification of a solitary boat…albeit personified to a lifeless form….I get the best haiku’s here 🙂 Beautifully written bestie 🙂

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   • Your words encourage me ..always..and I’m really thankful to God for having a friend like you… ❤ 🙂

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4. Lovely imagery.

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   • Thanks, Rachna… 🙂

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5. Good one.

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   • Thanks… 🙂

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6. So True 🙂

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   • Thanks… 🙂

     How are you doing? Great to hear from you after a long time… 🙂

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7. Seems a bit like everybody’s story!

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   • Indeed seems so… 😛

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8. Spot on Maniparna 🙂 …. I kind of love the aimlessness though 😉

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   • It seems at some point of life, we all love this aimlessness…. 🙂

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     • True😀

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9. The philosophy of life expressed so perfectly in just a few words. You are brilliant, Maniparna.

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   • Thanks a lot, dear..so happy you liked it… 🙂

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10. Lady! I wish to kiss your hands. Just awesome. I cannot say more.

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    • Aww..I’m just overwhelmed… 🙂 Thank you so very much… 🙂

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11. I so damn relate to this Mani… so very intriguing.. :’)

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    • Thanks, dear..glad to know that… 🙂

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12. I can relate to that boat

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    • So can I … 😛 thanks Avinash… 🙂

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13. A good message there, wonderfully portrayed by both pics and words.

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    • Thanks, Indrani…life sometimes really feels aimless..but I like it somehow… 🙂

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14. Like this boat right now… but striving to be like the moving water. Beautiful and very thoughtful, Mani!! 🙂

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    • Thanks, dear Arti 😀 We all strive to be like the water..but aimlessness is also a very needed thing… 🙂

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15. Reflective as usual

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    • So happy to see you here after so many days, Chaitali….hope you’ll be regular again… 🙂

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16. For some reason, I feel that this is about me, me and especially me 😀 😀

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    • 😀 and what actually the reason is? 😛

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      • I was hoping that you will help me to connect 😀

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    • Okkies, I will consult with the Vampire Uncle..and let you know..he can find out the connection better… 😛 😀

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      • I hope that he hasn’t started charging a heavy consultation fee 😛

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    • No way, he is a very humble vampire… 😛

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      • Yes, but he has to take care of family now 😛

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      • 😀 A big family….

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    • And it’s about me as well. I could connect with it so I loved it. 😀

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      • Lets have tea because of the happiness attained by the same 😀

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      • Let’s do that. 😀

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      • A virtual tea party… 😀

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      • 😀

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      • ..and as I’ve conceived it, I can connect with it as well..so let’s have tea..and cupcakes too… 😀 😀

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17. awesome image and perfect words to go with it… love the thought behind this one Mani 🙂

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    • Thanks, dearie… happy you liked the both… 🙂

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18. Such an aimless life is really a great pain in life.. Well depicted the hidden meaning of this Message!

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    • Thanks, Sir… glad that you liked it… 🙂

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19. This is brilliant!!

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    • Thanks, Deepakji… 🙂

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20. Hmm, I’d prefer to call them turbulent waters. And a boat manned by a rudderless rider. What say?

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    • I’m happy that the picture has initiated so many thoughts…the comment section has a myriad of thoughts and I like all of them.. 🙂

      Have a great weekend ahead, Sweety… 🙂

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      • Thanks. Wishing you the same.

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21. A perfect imagery for a life without purpose Maniparna.. A boat in the midst of a stagnant lake.

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    • Thanks, Vinay… 🙂

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22. Sometimes being aimless makes you realise yourself. Thoughtful Haiku!
    A Rat’s Nibble

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    • True that..thank you… 🙂

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23. I wonder, how many feel this way. This feeling is not alien to me, I do feel aimless sometimes.

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    • Most of us, it seems, feel in this way, Saru….we are in the same boat… 😀

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24. Beautiful analogy.

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    • Thanks, kiran… 🙂

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25. A lot of insight to this Maniparna – beautiful writing to start this week.

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    • Thanks, Mary…wish you a great and colorful week ahead…. 🙂

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26. Thought provoking, you must be active and not stagnant if you want to execute your aims. Good job dear 🙂

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    • Exactly, Deeshani…. that’s the point…thank you… 🙂

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27. I’m really enjoying the discussion this post is responsible for. I love that phrase – benign indifference of the universe – although I don’t believe the universe is indifferent, mostly. When gripped by that existential fear I focus on other philosophies. I also don’t think it’s necessary to be driven by purpose constantly. This boat of yours is resting on the ever moving stream, before it sets out again on it’s journey.

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    • I’ve also enjoyed greatly the discussion here produced by the post, Kalpanaa. So many interpretations from friends and readers….it’s nice to know how people look at the picture from so many POVs. Thanks so much for your wonderful thoughts….on the theory of benign indifference, I want to look at it as just another ideal theory… 🙂

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28. aimless life to a stagnant boat..while real life flows, now rippling, now calm.
    wonderful comparison Soul-sis! artistically done:)

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    • Thanks, soul-sis..it always feels so nice to have your views on my posts… it completes my effort… 🙂

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29. Love every word. Love the solitary journey and wondering aimlessly:)

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    • Thanks, Vishal..yes, sometimes an aimless journey becomes very much meaningful… 🙂

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30. Another great haiku… 🙂

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    • Thanks, dear… ❤

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31. Beautiful lines. The virtues of being aimless are seen only by a few. “Stop thinking and end your problems” ~ Lao Tsu

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    • Thanks for sharing the wonderful quote, Dilip… 🙂 Glad you find the lines worthy… 🙂

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32. Good lines .

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    • Thanks, Sir… 🙂

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33. so nice 🙂

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    • Thanks, Joshi… 🙂

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34. Hello Haiku Queen,

    Well the boat is a good example of aimlessness and you have depicted that pretty well. 🙂

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    • Hi Automobile King 😛
      Thanks so much 😀 Hope you had a great weekend…wish you a happy week ahead… 🙂

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      • Automobile king :O Really you are going to be questioned on this by real automotive enthusiasts. I hope they don’t call for a strike in Kerala for calling me a king. 😛 😛

        Weekend was OK. Hope you had a good weekend and hopefully a good work week ahead 🙂

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      • I don’t know or read other auto enthusiasts’ blog 😀 So, they would not take the pain to come and question me. And, I do really have a great respect for your vivid knowledge in this field…. 🙂

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      • Oh no… phir vivid knowledge 😛 I think you should read some automotive blogs. Only that is missing in your blog, so you might as well write about Porsche and Porsche…. and other cars. 😛

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      • 😀 if I ever have to write on it, the first person I would seek help from..is well..you-know-who… 😀 😛

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      • Sure 🙂 Let that be about buying your new Porsche 911 GT3 RS…. Please buy that 😉 and I am sure I’ll pay you a visit in the near future.

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    • Porsche 911!!! 😥 Have to wait for a lifetime and still there would be no chance. It’s over 2.5 crores in Indian rupees… 😀

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      • Haha.. Yeah. I thought you were going to be there in 5 years. Nahi kya?

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    • You forgot to add the zero after 5…. 😀

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      • Haha 😛

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35. Reblogged this on ratnabanerjee66's Blog.

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36. This is me. So beautifully explained in a single line. So deep.

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    • Thanks so much! Welcome here and thanks again for the reblog..:-) I’m honoured… 🙂

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37. Wow!

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    • Thanks… 😀

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38. That is how it feels like most of the time..aimless life drifting with the flow of events (providence). But looking back when we connect the dots it , then it appears that maybe be things happened for a purpose, Analogy with stagnant both in a moving river is brilliant Maniparna.
    Have a nice weekend.

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    • Hehe..you’re the only one to reflect my thoughts in the way I have perceived it in respect of the picture 😛 That’s why I brought the apparently odd analogy between a moving river and a stagnant boat… 🙂
      Thanks so much… 🙂

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      • 🙂

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    • Not only you…Nihar too …. 😀

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39. “Life is Growth”, and stagnation is an enemy to life…what a lovely analogy, many times in life we are stuck and the world around us moves on and we are left behind in the race….very much the moving water and sometimes we represent this stagnate boat…
    Such a profound thought to start the day, thank you so much. You have a peaceful and blissful weekend…
    😀

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    • Thanks, Nihar, it seems you, Somali and I got our wavelengths matched for this one… 😀 It was really a pleasure to have such a nice analysis from you… 🙂

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      • It was lovely to share such common thoughts, indeed it is a great feeling when our ideas converge…
        cheers to the beauty and growth of life…
        😀

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      • :-D…. absolutely…. (y)

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      • cheers!!!
        😀

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40. Aimlessly going with the steam of life, isn’t that how we do everything? 🙂

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    • Most of the times…but again there is a theory that humans do everything with a purpose, knowingly or unknowingly…. 😀

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      • True that 🙂

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41. the philosophy of absurdism? have you been reading The Stranger by Albert Camus?

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    • Oh! the father of absurdism… no, haven’t read “The Stranger”..I’ve read only one of his works…”The Fall”…. 🙂

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      • he sort of abandoned absurdism by the time of his second novel, the plague. i think due to his experience in the second world war. he was editor of the newspaper for the french resistance to the nazis. after that, the “benign indifference of the universe” gave way to purpose.

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    • “benign indifference of the universe”- that’s a great quote from him… 🙂

      You’ve read him extensively, it seems…. 🙂

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      • one of my favorite writers, for his novels and essays.

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