Hot Cider

 Cups or hot cider

Wreaths of ivy on the door

to warm the chill

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Contemplation

 Contemplation

hints at joy

new traditions made

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Christmas

 Looking forward to

Croissants with salmon 

on Christmas morning

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Christmas Cake

 Christmas cake

Washed down with wine

Scarlet holly outside

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

First Snow

 Just woke up

Struggling through somehow

First snow outside

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Blanket

🍂 Just snuggling

Under a blanket

Relishing the quiet🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Everglades

 Just eating

Cheesecake in the everglades

How unexpected

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Amber

Comfortably armed with 

a cup of coffee in hand

amber afternoons

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Love

 Please keep holding on,

Love is strong clarity

winding paths unfold

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Gingerbread

 Stressing

Buying multiple boxes

of gingerbread

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Therapy

 Good therapy idea

Letting things go

with hot chocolate

~Sarah  Mahina Calvello

Early Hours

In the early hours

Thoughts devour and consume

Tea warms the shadows

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Frosted Gingerbread

 Frosted gingerbread

So pretty in the mail

Hopeful newness

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Right Unforgettable

 Wrong pathway

For the right unforgettable

Moment

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

New Year Smile

 Ringing new year

With a Pineapple glass 

A rose smile

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Chestnuts

 Chestnuts

Roasting tonight

It's time

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Foggy

 Wearing three sweaters

Already 44 degree now 

Foggy night SF

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Snow Day

 A warming surprise

A thermos of cocoa on a

 Snow-filled frosted day

~Sarah Mahina Calvello, to my father 

Loss

 The only risk of love

Is loss and a glass of wine

Waiting for sunset

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Serene

 Follow the moon

down to the east river

How serene

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Thank You

 As a thank you

A loaf of fresh bread

From a bakery

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Layers

bundled in sweater layers

when the sky in crystal blue

waiting for night fall 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Strong Winds

 Strong winds

Whisper forcefully

On your walk home

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

New Sunset

 Remembering

That old barn passed many times

In the new sunset

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Fine Sugar

 Fine sugar

On a camelia bud

The winter rose comes

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Shiny Lie

 Mistaking 

Carnations for roses

The shiny lie dims

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Whirlwind

 🍂Lost in thought

Midnight unfurling

In a whirlwind chill🍂

Peering

 Peering out

From frosted window panes

It all seems ok

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

French Toast

 Everyone

Decides it's time for french toast

Winter storms approach 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Move

 Move along

The next scene is better

lovely sunsets wait

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Preparation

 It's going to be fine

Hot cocoa and rum for snow

Preparation 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Uncovering

 Uncovering the truth

a vase of white narcissus 

to mark the new year

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Overlooking

 Overlooking 

The shadowed corners

But there's still light there

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Creating

Creating

Unforgettable moments

A new dress

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Canned Peaches

Canned peaches

and long socks

To welcome the cold

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Astray

 Dreams can get buried 

But be detoured astray 

Stars in a cleaning 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Daydreaming

 Daydreaming

of Sunshine and lazy days

on the beach

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Sweetened Oranges

 Jam toast

With sweetened oranges

Breakfast in bed

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Fruit Trees

 Fruit trees

Covered with fruit

A good day

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Poppies

 A silver tea tray

and a vase of poppies

Welcomes daylight

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Hoping

 Long cafe line

Hoping this coffee

works miracles

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Cafe con leche

 Cafe con leche

With a apple spice slice

to brighten the cold

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Butter Chicken

Some butter Chicken 

Mixed with Rice at velvet night 

with someone special

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Sherlock Holmes

🌧️🍂The morning watching 

Sherlock Holmes with Earl Gray

Lulling rainy day🍂🌧️

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Nifty

 🍂🍷Drinking some more wine

While making a Christmas cake

What a nifty trick!🍂🍷

~Sarah Mahina Calvelllo

Bittersweet

 Fresh spiced gingerbread

Mixed with chronic back pain

Just so bittersweet! 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Chicory

 Chicory coffee arrived 

A cold, December morning

sun through the window

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Possibilities

 Possibilities 

But more on the aggressive side

Straying optimistic 

Strangers

Heavy doors closing

in an empty corridor

Strangers gathering 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Content

So very content 

with a Christmas snack hidden 

of iced gingerbread

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Hope

 Raising a wine glass

Cake slice with fine white icing

Hope is finally here

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Fresh rain

 Fresh rain kissed morning 

Means more snails on vibrant 

Sun dappled leaves

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Midday

 Lillac trees stretching 

Against a marbled skyline 

Stress free midday walk

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Squirrel

 a squirrel peaks out,

mad at a stranger passing

his territory 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Insomnia

 A lamp post glowing

shines on bougainvillea vines

An insomnia walk

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Scarfs

Aging gracefully,

wondering if it warrants 

Collecting more scarfs

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Soup

Cold season lately,

So more soup is most welcome

For this winter chill

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

School Yard Birds

 There’s a strange beauty 

Feeling school yard birds alone 

Only warm pavement 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Crescent

Crescent moon melting 

into still sapphire water

wishing to be there

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Happy Sollitude

 Socks and gingerbread

in warm,happy solitude

To harold Christmas 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Red Leaf

 A fallen red leaf

Flawed and fragmented but free

in a gentle arc

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Offering

 Offering a cup

Of much needed coffee brew

Yes, please! It’s so cold 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Love

 Love alive tonight

Suspended security

Calming candlelight

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Dizzy

 Fragility winter

sweet but so icy circle cold

under dizzy stars

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Candlelight

 Mixing and melting, 

Hot chocolate coffee pot

candlelight thinking 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Pick

 And a brown package,

Setting up for sanity 

Next month's coffee pick

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Fine Sugar

 Fine sugar spinning 

on a camelia budding 

the winter rose comes

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Candlelight Table

 Candlelight table 

Flickers and illuminates

The cornered shadows

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Long Socks

 Long socks 

pretty sure this winter calls for 

A wooly hat

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Desire

 Desire

Growing comfortable 

Scuffed slippers

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Bygone

 The quiet aching

of past bygone memories 

Under the waning moon

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Unfolding

 A long day,

Unfolding, beautifully 

So you don't feel alone

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Mockingbird

 mockingbird at dawn

cajoles the moon from the sky

chatting the sun up

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Lavender

 Sky stretching outward , 

Reflecting in each others eyes

Lavender twilight

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Rest

Dark red maple leaves 

A mosaic on the ground

Time to get some rest

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Fresh

Fresh plucked strawberries

Reveling in solitude

In the pale sunshine 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Sauntering

 Sauntering 

in the mountains

for John Muir

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Bittersweet

 trying to make ends meet

it's a bitter Sweet Symphony 

that's life

~Sarah Mahina Calveelo