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.

Grinch – Haiku by Anita Bacha

Green Grinch

Green Grinch steals the sweets
Who pudding and sugarplums
Small heart wants the treats

Anita Bacha

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a children’s Christmas book by Theodor “Dr. Seuss” Geisel written in rhymed verse with illustrations by the author. It follows the Grinch, a cranky, solitary creature who attempts to thwart the public’s Christmas plans by stealing Christmas gifts and decorations from the homes of the nearby town of Whoville on Christmas Eve. As a result of the townspeople’s response, the Grinch realizes that Christmas is not all about money and presents.

I am one of the lucky ones who has read this absorbing #storybook published in 1957 when my dad well aware of my love for books
Offered me‘How the Grinch stole #Christmas by #Dr Seuss for my birthday.

I remember with pride and nostalgia the subtle ways of my parents to encourage me and my siblings to read and write.

Christmas is not all about glitter,money and presents.

Story book by Dr.Seuss
Image of Grinch cc Pinterest

Happy Sunday!

Anita Bacha

Jasmines in the Night – A Poem by Anita Bacha

Take me with you,

To a land where jasmines 

Bloom in the night,

Where moths freely die in the light,

As I bloom and I die in your favors

Take me with you,

Keep me close to you,

As the vespertine fragrance

Invigorates the breath of lovers,

And I write with the ink of your eyes,

These petals of poetry,

Chaste as scented jasmines in the night.

Anita Bacha

Dear friends and readers, this poem is a revised and edited version of my original poem White Flowers in the Night. I was inspired by the prompt word vespertine to rewrite the original poem.

Vespertine is a poetic term for being active in the evening, or a flower that blooms in the evening. So, I’d guess the jasmine flowers that bloom in the night and are renowned for their rich,sweet,floral and musky aroma would be the perfect theme of my poem .

It’s also interesting to note that in India, the glam jasmine is known as Raat ke Rani (the Queen of the Night) .

Anita Bacha

Image copyright ©️ Pinterest

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Automne 🍂 – Poésie de Anita Bacha

Autumn is the best time of the year for poets to jot down love poems inspired by the beauty and caprice of Nature

L’automne survient comme une sorcière dans mon jardin

Le ciel couvre d’un épais manteau gris le soleil du matin

Coups de balai, feuilles et fleurs s’envolent en tourbillon

Les jaillisses froides de la pluie gèlent l’air profond

Les oiseaux s’enfuient vers des cieux là-haut

Les truites se cachent sous les pierres de ruisseaux

Je regarde plein d’espérance, mon amour, la lueur de l’horizon

Qu’importe la pluie, le froid, la mélancolie de l’arrière-saison

Qu’importe l’absence, les longs jours d’attente, les nuits sans étoiles

Qu’importe les larmes, la souffrance et le mal

J’attends, amante insensée que je suis, ton retour au printemps

J’attends les baisers promis, les ébats délirants dans les champs

Je rêve du parfum exaltant de la rose sur ta peau hâlée

Les coquelicots écrasant sur ta bouche la couleur de mes désirs dérobés

Anita Bacha

Ma poésie est publiée sur les réseaux sociaux depuis 2016

Image Couleurs de l’Automne

Haiku and Travel Photography

Haiku and Travel Photography by Anita Bacha

My boots

Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.

Boots are a type of shoes.The main difference between a shoe and a boot is that boots cover the ankle and sometimes the lower leg, while shoes generally don’t. 

I was a law student in England.My father funded all my fees at University and later at the Inns of Court in London. I was also enjoying a fat student allowance but I would never spend my papa’s money on fancy clothes and stuff.

However, I fell head over heels for the trendy knee high leather boots that I saw at Russell and Bromley in Oxford Street, on my way to the underground tube station.

Idea! A good idea flashed in my mind!

I secured a job as salesgirl at Self Ridges during end of trimester vacation.

Et voilà! I bought my first knee high leather boots, color brown with high heels!

I wore my adorable boots during autumn, winter and early spring,with added pride, having bought them with my own earned money.

I love boots. Even at my age now, I feel very tomboyish, wearing them with my old jeans.

Anita Bacha

In India,attending the Jaipur Literary Festival 25.cc. photo.

Haiku and Travel Photography by Anita Bacha

A bend in the road

To admire Florence’s landscape

I slow down my car

Florence Centro Storico cc. Anita Bacha
Centro Storico, Florence cc.Anita Bacha
Ponte alle Grazie , Florence cc.Anita Bacha
Florence- Centro Storico cc. Anita Bacha

Thanks for your visit, dear friends

Anita Bacha.

Flitting Butterfly – Poem by Anita Bacha

You will never find another love like mine,

The flitting butterfly has an eye for the frail beauty of flowers,

Hovering snootily contemplating his kill;

The flowers are not insensate to the beauty of the ladylove,

Enriched in voluptuous colors,

Perfumed with the choicest fragrances,

They flaunt their bewitching loveliness,

In the offing, to drug him in a deep drowsiness;

Confused in the variety of choices,

The beau flutters his wings,

Heaves a sigh!

I love you all, my ravishing dames! he cries;

Swelling buds ready to break their lavish folds,

Waning roses ready to die,

Dancing, flirting frivolously,

Under the blueness of the summer sky

You will never find another love like mine

Anita Bacha

For more, my dear friends and readers, kindly check out

https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Poetry-Inspirational-Verses-Quotes/dp/1482852322

CLARITY – A TANKA POEM by Anita Bacha

This morning I look 

At my face in the mirror 

I see the wrinkles 

Like clarity of pure water 

The beauty of growing old 

Anita Bacha

cc. Image of sea water

Happy World Book Day – A Poem by Anita Bacha

my forthcoming plan


write a new book for children –


the world best readers

Anita Bacha

Dear friends and readers

Image Cc children in Malpura Rajasthan reading children book The Princess and the Crow
Image of my meeting with Austin Macauley representative at the London Book Fair 2025
Meeting with children book publishers at London Book Fair 2025 . Image copyright
Image cc. My passion for books at LBF 2025.

My passion for books and for writing once again drove my steps to the London Book Fair at Olympia in London last month.

I was flabbergasted to see the innumerable children books exposed. I met several publishers including the Austin Macauley team and I was curious to know about the future of writers of children books.

I was over the moon to learn from a big children book publisher that ‘ for Austin Macauley to publish your story means that your story is a very good one!’ He wished to remain anonymous because he is a publisher too.

With my book ‘The Princess and the Crow’ I was proud to walk around visiting the book stalls as an author of Austin Macauley.

My Rajasthan friends bought their copy of The Princess and the Crow from Amazon India. I am sharing a photo of village children in Malpura reading a paperback copy.

I am invited by Austin Macauley to submit a new manuscript. It dawned upon me to write unique stories about my childhood.

Why unique? Because each one of us has a unique childhood.

I’m working on a new book for children except that it will take some time to write because of my eyes problems.

With your blessings I will write!

Anita Bacha