Leaves – A Collection of Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Poems by Anita Bacha

Dear friends,poetry lovers and readers,

I am glad to announce that I have just added a new release to my repertoire –

LEAVES

It’s a collection of short poems,namely haiku,senryu and tanka written fondly with you in mind.

I picked up my quill after a long illness to compile this collection of haiku, senryu and tanka poems which, has been a major part of my recovery.Writing every day, no thrice a day, is my secret potion. On a naughty note, I wanted to prove to my ophthalmologist that writing won’t make me blind.

What is Leaves about?

Choosing a title for a poetry book is not an easy task especially when it comes to a collection of short poems.

One morning, I was gazing at the overcast sky when a yellow leaf fell at my feet, followed by another, yet another. Deeply marveled and inspired by Mother Nature’s cycle of life, I have named my new collection of short poems, LEAVES. Each poem molded, shaped, colored differently is a leaf from Mother Nature’s Notebook.

This collection of traditional and modern haiku, senryu and tanka is divided in three parts. The first one consists of haiku unfolding the four seasons of the year, starting with summer and ending with winter. The second comprises senryu and, the third and last one includes tanka.

Haiku is a Japanese poem of traditionally seventeen syllables in three, short, unrhymed lines. Nature themes and imagery evoking a specific season of the year are the traditional focus of haiku poetry.

Haiku developed from the hokku, the opening lines of a longer poem known as tanka, an ancient form of poetry that consists of 5 lines in a 5/7/5/7/7 syllables count form. The tanka poem is traditionally about seasons, nature and emotions. Senryu is another short form Japanese poetry similar to haiku in construction with three lines and seventeen syllables count. Senryu, however, tend to be about human foibles; they are often cynical and darkly humorous. Haiku is more serious.

Whereas traditional haiku and senryu poets observe strictly the 5/7/5 syllables pattern, modern poets try different syllables count and formats to achieve a more minimalist style.

Intensely perfumed 

Queen of Arabian Night 

Silken petals rose 

Shoreline stroll 

Two feet and four paws 

Prints in the sand 

Happy Reading,my dear friends 

Anita Bacha

For more kindly check out LEAVES

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Author: Anita Bacha

Creative and inspirational writer of stories, poetry, and haikus I am also an addictive reader of novels, poetry, haiku, and children's storybooks. I am the author of SOUL POETRY a book of inspirational poems, verses, and quotes published by Partridge India (2015) The Maker of Miracles (2006) published in the USA by Dorrance Publishing and My Journey with God (2008) published under the banner of Sai Towers, India is the narration about my spiritual journey. My new poetry book INK Echo of life and love published by Éditions de L’Ocean Indien (2019) in Mauritius, my birth country is a collection of love poems extolling the feelings and desires of women. The Princess and the Crow is my first storybook for children, released by Austin Macauley Publishers London in March 2019. Two years later, I was inspired to write and published two other books - WAKASHIO, a storybook for children, and PINK MOON - AN ANTHOLOGY OF HAIKU POEMS. I love to write. I guess my writing has a special cliché of island 🌴 life, natural, unpretentious, and full of beauty.

15 thoughts on “Leaves – A Collection of Haiku, Senryu and Tanka Poems by Anita Bacha”

  2. Interesting to read that you tell about your new book and very interesting this theory of these genres. You have a beautiful Amazon page. Funny, I thought that you are an air hostess, but you are a lawyer😊 Enjoyable afternoon🌺

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    1. Many thanks for your visit and heart warming thoughts and comments ,Jean!
      I hope you are not too disappointed to find out that I am a lawyer.
      I am very proud to be one. I am also a jurist.
      You will be surprised to know that I worked at The Hague Conference in the drafting of the Protection of Children in Inter-country Adoption Convention 1993 of which I am a signatory, but I love poetry and I love people
      I love art and music 🎶💖🪶

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      1. I am not disappointed at all, I just remember your photos from the plane, that made me think your an air hostess. Wow you have accomplished really much! The theoretical things of your poems are fascinating, as a composer I love theories 😊 Of course your poems in itself are very beautiful, I like them 🌺

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