* Lilacs
"April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." T.S.Eliot
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2) * "Snails (slugs)"
"Due to its slowness, the snail has traditionally been seen as a symbol of laziness.
Snails were widely noted and used in divination. The Greek poet Hesiod wrote that snails signified the time to harvest by climbing the stalks, while the Aztec moon god Tecciztecatl bore a snail shell on his back. This symbolised rebirth; the snail's penchant for appearing and disappearing was analogised with the moon.
More recently, Carl Jung noted that the snail was representative of the self in dreams. In psychology, the soft insides are analogous to the subconscious, as the shell is the conscious.
One expert, Professor Ronald Chase of McGill University in Montreal, has suggested that the ancient myth of Cupid's arrows might be based on early observations of the love dart behavior of the land snail species Helix aspersa."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail#Slugs
someone left bread on the wall!
3) * "Climbing"
"katatsuburi
soro-soro nobore
fuji no yama" Issa
"little snail
inch by inch, climb
Mount Fuji!"
Translated by David G. Lanoue
http://haikuguy.com/issa/haiku.php?code=284.13b
"In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all." Iris Murdoch
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