Stuck

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Stuck in this bedroom
Watching the sun making small
Shadows on the floor🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal 

Dewdrop

 🍂Dewdrop spiderweb

In a filagree sunbeam
All things left unsaid🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Friends, Dirty Streets, Curtains Opening

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Harder to make friends
So I’ll windchill window shop
False advertising

In these dirty streets,
Looking for a saviour
Decoding shadows

Curtains opening
Maybe we’re all just lonely
Wayward, distant birds

Briefly, all of us
Walk these empty corridors
Like hungry spirits🍂

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Sweet Purple

Tanka by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Sweet purple lilac
In the hazy twilight air
Inner litany
What shines in golden can’t stay
Constant twisting and turning🍂

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Aging

 🍂Aging

Is a waxed camellia

Overgrown🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Morning of January 25, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Misting

 

🍂Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

A misting world sleeps
The turning of an old clock
Mysterious shift🍂

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Curving

🌙🍂curving

white flowers hold the

moon´s glow inside🍂🌙

-Sarah Mahina Calvello

Wee Sparrow Poetry Nook

January 2025 Journal

Citrus Tea

 

🫖🍂Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Gift of citrus tea
Have it so you don’t catch cold
New woolen jacket🍂🫖

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All Night

🍂 All night

Heartbeats reverberating

Down lonely streets

~Sarah Mahina Calvello🍂

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of January 15, 2025

Repair

 

🍂Tanka by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Regret of the past
Another day without you
But we’re intertwined
There’s always love to repair
But we will make it back here🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal 

It’s funny

 🍂It’s funny

What you remember

Under a vast sky🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Afternoon of January 9, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Bob Dylan

 🍂Haiku

Bob Dylan’s music
Unfolding in the soft rain
So strangely calming🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

Lake Heather

 🍂 collecting

lake heather
leftover wishes

Sarah Mahina Calvello
San Francisco🍂

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Dreams – Future and Past – long list

The Haiku Foundation 

Dreams with Co-Guest Editors Sherry & Zoe Grant

Dreams. Where do they come from? Can we foresee the future? Are our conscious thoughts during the day reflected in dreams at night? So many questions yet no definite answers. Dreams can be vivid, or half forgotten; they can be spun into beautiful poems or analysed and studied using Freudian techniques. Some dreams can be soothing, while nightmares are mostly disturbing. Dreams have EVERYTHING to do with our mental health and well-being. Dreams can be abstract or measurable, they can also be the start of something great, for as soon as you dream of something, you send out a message to the universe and the universe might just respond for your wishes to come true. It remains Zoe’s and my dream to inspire at least one billion people with what we create together: perhaps dreaming something up is rather like setting a tangible goal…Zoe and I promote haiku and rengay through editing our own poetry journals, chalk on the walk haiku and monoku, hosting workshops and our own online radio station because we strongly believe that our joint efforts can lead us all to the Next Golden Age. We have been gathering up our own “army” to combat commercialism in an age of depression, in the hopes to heal the world with the power of arts and creativity. Zoe and I would like to bring back kindness and gratitude through building networks and global communities, so nobody will have to feel alone or left out. In November 2025 Zoe and I will host our 5th online international music, poetry & arts festival to celebrate my favourite composer Alexander Scriabin’s (Russia, 1872-1915) 110th as well as haiku poet Fukuda Chiyo-ni’s (Japan, 1703-1775) 250th anniversaries since death. We would like to now leave you with Chiyo-ni’s beautiful haiku about dreams, translated to English by Marco Fraticelli in his book A Thousand Years: The Haiku and Love Letters of Chiyo-ni. Come dream with us!

dream fragment
a butterfly
through wildflowers

– Chiyo-ni

HAIKU DIALOGUE – Dreams – Future and Past – long list

The Haiku Foundation

Moon haiku

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌙🍂The soft brevity

Of a full moon in silence 

One more step to go

Bittersweet memory

Eclipsing the passing days

The curving pearl moon

Plum blossoms falling

Into gossamer water

The full moon rising

Twisting banyan trees

Reminiscent of heartstrings

Opalescent moon

Shadowed autumn moon

Traveling the azure sky

Calming and constant

White chrysanthemums

Gentle caress of the moon

Symphony of stars

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Tequila, It Was a Lie

Morning of January 6, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

🍂 Tequila sipping

Dreaming of the moment

When things seem right

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

It was a lie

The cards are on the table

Unmasking🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Horrorku

 

Horrorku by Sarah Mahina Calvello🍂

Midnight indigo
The clock strikes half past midnight
Gentle witching hour

Take off your disguise
The mask hides all sordid lies
Bittersweet blossoms🍂

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Winter

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Winter’s icy breath

Chilling the waiting birch grove

Soft porcelain light

Winter’s icy breath

Caressing bare brown branches

Let me stay resting🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal

Van Gogh Sky

 Cold Moon Journal

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂cold clouds

In a Van Gogh sky

Winter🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello