Saturday, September 27, 2025

Medusa’s Kitchen Haiku Medley

 🍂Crumbling flower steps

Outing to Sutro baths

Foggy ocean tide🍂


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🍂Rose gold sunset

Lights the barren skin lovely

Echos of what was🍂


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🍂Around in circles,

Just going through the motions

Making lemonade🍂

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🍂Fragmented blue bowl

Reminds me to be connected

In the chaos life🍂


      ~


🍂Throwing cracker crumbs

Out the window for the birds

The nighttime buffet🍂


      ~


🍂The existing change

Mustn’t force things too quickly

Flowers bloom and fade🍂

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🍂Pink sunset lamppost

The distance of wondering

Passing time and clocks🍂


      ~   


🍂Still garden violets

Steady sanctuary site

Dark purple angels🍂


      ~


🍂Deep pink and blushing

Carefree wondering rose winds

Under red skies🍂


      ~


These echo of thoughts

The labyrinth of solitude

Calla lily moon


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Today’s LittleNip:


When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.



―Matsuo Bashō


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—Medusa, with thanks to Sarah Mahina Calvello for today’s fine poetry! Be sure to check in next Saturday for more of Sarah’s poetry.

 

Medusa’s Kitchen 

Saturday September 27, 2025

🐚 Hermit Crab

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello


🍂Hermit crabs hiding

Under the glittering rocks

Of swirling sea wash🍂


5-7-4 Journal

Friday, September 26, 2025

Gravity, Gnarled

 🍂what’s the trick

for staying grounded here?

well, gravity🍂


~Sarah Mahina Calvello




🍂these days

relating

to a gnarled tree🍂


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Evening of September 26, 2025

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Reptilian, Fate, Mirror

 🍂reptilian leaves


commingling shadows


on the hidden path🍂



~Sarah Mahina Calvello




🍂my fate

is my fate

crossing bridges🍂


~Sarah Mahina Calvello




🍂🌙Dust on the mirror

Time has not been kind

brightening  moon🌙 🍂 


~Sarah Mahina Calvello



Afternoon of September 24, 2025

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Shores

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello


🍂The careening shores

Convoluted waves blending

Impermeable🍂


5-7-5 Journal

Monday, September 22, 2025

tango

 🍂🌹the tango

we twist through 

to bring roses 🌹🍂


Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Poetry Pea Podcast S8E38

Dancing with words; Tango, Spring & Fair Play

Friday, September 19, 2025

loved

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello


🍂Loved you a little

The heavy cherry blossoms

Such haunting moonlight🍂


5-7-5 Journal

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Missed and Free falling

 Missed

🍂Watercolor vibrance

A caress of cashmere sun

Peach coral sunsets

In the crisp heart of autumn 

Every sound seems soothing 

Reminiscent thoughts wondering 

Trailing withe flurry of leaves 

The past is not always missed🍂


🍂Free falling 

Colors never seen

Unwinding ribboned hues 

A bright Monet kind of love

When the sun wears velvet 

And the air is hazy

A state of imaginary grace

Slow see-saw of leaves

Everything seems suspended 

In free falling 

Amid the kaleidoscope of autumn 

Turning over lazily 

Days surrendering to the cold🍂


About the Author

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


Wise Owl Magazine 

September

Theme: The Sun Wears Velvet

September 16, 2025

Saturday, September 13, 2025

twilight

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello


🍂These cooling nights come

Satin blue twilight descends

Flannels and red leaves 🍂


5-7-5 Journal

Friday, September 12, 2025

Nightime Subway

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello


🍂The nighttime subway

Steep and angular shadows

Silhouette of dreams🍂


5-7-5 Journal

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Stars

 🍂Stars

Of the seven

Unbroken promise🍂


~Sarah Mahina Calvello


Five Fleas Itchy poetry 

Afternoon of September 10, 2025

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Roses

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello


🍂🌹Calm in the chaos

The sunset is coming on

In thorns and roses🌹🍂


5-7-5 Journal

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Autumn heat, Unsure and Unknown

 🍂Autumn heat


Somewhere between you and me


Distant moon🍂


~Sarah Mahina Calvello




🍂Unsure if I miss it . . .


The spiced disarray


Of a coffee shop🍂


~Sarah Mahina Calvello




🍂The unknown


Ideas used for a map


In the dizzy night🍂


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of September 6, 2025

Scars

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello


🍂The day is winding

My head in the rainbow clouds

Impressions of scars🍂


5-7-5

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Straight Road

 🍂Sometimes the straight road

too many twists and turns

Velvet red sunset🍂


5-7-5 Journal