Farewell

 🍂Farewell to summer

Sipping on camomile tea

Day fading to night🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Changes Coome and Rest Now

 🍂Thought I heart crickets

In the misty stillness

Changes come🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Rest now

Breathe in some cool air

Rustic mushrooms🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of August 30, 2025

Garden

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Never let someone

Unworthy in your garden

Advice to live by🍂

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Purple Mosaic and Daisy Chain ,Awen

 🍂Purple mosaic

A field of new tulips

All the lonely hearts🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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🍂Making daisy chains

Simple thing to occupy time

Goes to a loved one🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Issue 129 August 2025

Awen

Honey

🌧️🍂Melting honey

On flour tortillas

Soft rain🍂🌧️

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of August 26, 2025

Elephants

 S8E34 Small Elephants in Short Form Poetry

July Video Prompt

🍂elephants

in the green

echoes of water🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

Fireflies

 Poetry Pea Journal, issue 4:25. 

🍂fireflies

turning a hollow tree 

into a lantern🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

Unmasking , Bumblebee and Hawk

🌙🍂Plum blossoms 

Savor good memories 

Unmasking the moon🍂🌙

🍂Bumblebee buzzes 

By the blackberry brambles 

Landscape of your skin 🍂

🍂Hawk of four corners 

Appreciates the free air

Direction unknown🍂

Wise Owl Daily Verse

August

Theme: A Sky Full of Promises

About the Author

Sarah Mahina Calvello loves reading and writing haiku and other forms of Japanese poetry.

Dandelion

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A dandelion

Pokes out from the sidewalk cracks

In a gilded frame🍂

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Medusa’s Kitchen Part Two

 🍂Walking up late

Espresso by the sea

A good day ahead🍂

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Couch sleeping

Buying costly coffee🍂

Fire maples

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🍂Feisty Bluejay

Cornflower free sky

Saving moments🍂

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Daydreaming

Watercolor memories

Hopeful blossoms🍂

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🍂Wild blue sky

Try not to unravel

Soft candlelight🍂

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🍂Afternoon sun

Feeling like a tilted world

Tequila🍂

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🍂Through it all

Tomato sandwiches

Let me go back🍂

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🍂Moonlight Shores

The possibilities

To open up to🍂

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🍂No more hiding

A shift in my paradigm

Dust begins to clear🍂

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🍂Second chances

Rust rose rain

A story to tell🍂

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Medusa’s Kitchen

Moonless

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌙🍂On a moonless night

The sunflowers surrounding

Something is missing🍂🌙

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Loop

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Weirdest sensation

Repetitive loop living

Déjà vu again🍂

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Cards

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌙Bright moon shimmering

Plum blossoms are in full bloom

The cards I’ve been dealt🌙🍂

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Medusa’s Kitchen

🍂Buttered warmth  

Braided together 

In my morning tea🍂

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🍂Cups of coffee

Blurry and perfect

A little more time🍂

* * *

🍂Laundry time

Watching clothes drown

Cold circle of air

Red cardinals

Meet in garnet penumbras 

Cherry seeds glint  🍂

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🍂Antique photo

Mona Lisa of the deep 

Dream of the past 🍂

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🍂Azure cornflowers 

Warm yellow months spent 

Burning letters🍂

 

🍂Pieces of the past 

Mary poppins sugar

What a farce🍂

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🍂Warm and breezy 

Raising my sweetened sweet tea

Summer state of mind 🍂

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🍂Among summer stars

Listening to R.E.M.

Taking real breaths🍂

Medusa's Kitchen 

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Geraniums, Strangers, Room, Loud, Down

 🍂World of dewdrops

Wrap around geraniums

Surviving cold🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Put me down

In history

People are stranger🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂This room

Full of empty space

I need to be loud🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Down we go

Alice

Seasons change🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Afternoon of August 17, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Dewdrops, History,Room

 🍂World of dewdrops

Wrap around geraniums

Surviving cold🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Put me down

In history

People are stranger🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂This room

Full of empty space

I need to be loud🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Down we go

Alice

Seasons change🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Afternoon of August 17, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Sidewalk Cafe

 🍂🌙sidewalk café 

the new faces 

of the moon 🌙 🍂

—Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Saturday, August 16, 2025 

Cold Moon Joirnal

Monet

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Colours never seen

A bright Monet kind of love

Slow see-saw of leaves🍂

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Door

 🍂Door unlocked

But the key

Is rusty🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Afternoon of August 11, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Faltering

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌙🍂Into bright moonlight

Walking through reality

There’s no faltering🍂🌙

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Teapot and Hauning Eyes

 Teapot shakes

In sunlit hands

Of the morning

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌙Haunting eyes

Look up from black lace

Unmasking the moon 🌙 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Morning of August 9, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Portry

Pin

 🍂Pin the tail

On the donkey

My back patch🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Afternoon of August 7, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Unmasking

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Plum blossom fragrance

Savoring the good memories

Unmasking the moon🍂

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Zen Showcase Spring 2025

 🍂Walking in the green 

On slippery rocks 

Philosophy 🍂

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🍂I fell down 

And cracked my heart 

Paper fraying 🍂

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🍂Black and white photos 

Light that slices

Obsidian dark 🍂

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🍂Impromptu 

Pianist in the park 

Plays “Imagine “🍂

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🍂A bed

Of orange tulips 

Drunk in sunlight🍂

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🍂Bluebells

Understated 

Grace🍂

The Zen Showcase Spring 2025

Olive Grove

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂The sweet surrender

Of an olive grove harvest

Hot sun ripening🍂

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Farce

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Sit with me again

The farce begins all over

Buildings scrape the sky🍂

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Published on my 40th birthday, August 2, 2025