Hopeful

 🍂🥂Ringing in new year

With chocolates and cat naps

The hopeful hours🥂🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Turning

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂New year approaches

The small turning of the page

A wishful lament🍂

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Cloves and Milk

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Heating cloves and milk

For beckoning a sound sleep

Nesting in blankets🍂

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Footprints

 

​​​​🍂 🦌 footprints in the snow

white is all over the world

fur coat of the deer🍂 🦌 

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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The Edge and Disarrayed Change

 🍂Get sick

Get well

It’s hard to tell🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂The edge

Of disarrayed change

Screeching window crows🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of December 28, 2025

Possibilities

 🍂A new snow chilling

Unwrapping Christmas presents

Possibilities🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Fairy Lights

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Deep in bluest cold

Chandelier of fairy lights

Tangled in hedgerow🍂

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Christmas Haiku

 Haiku

🍂Gingerbread warming

A moment stolen with you

Under the holly🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Christmas carols sound

Hanging up the fairy lights

The warmness of cold🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Beautifully Bare

 🍂 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Beautifully bare

Raspberry gingerbread baking

Bright frosted sunsets🍂

Note: Raspberry pronounced “ras-bry”.

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Bench by the Lake

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A bench by the lake

Emerald water reflects

Drifting thoughts circling🍂

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Lulling

 🍂In and out

Lulling of the waves

Tomorrow’s echo🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Journal 

Afternoon of December 17, 2025

Yesterday’s

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂The sweet yesterdays

I’ll take all the memories

satin peach blossoms🍂

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Dance prompt

 🍂Crisscrossing 

The stitching 

Of human warmth🍂 

🍂Twirling steps 

Of the whirling dervish’s 

Free fall of leaves🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello 

October dance prompt showcase, Poetry Pea

Rice Pot

 🍂Stirring the rice pot

Calming routine🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Evening of December 15, 2025

Smols

 🍂The next stupid thing tomorrow🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Different kind of same🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Purgatory or something new🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

on December 15, 2025 

Smols

Bump

 🍂A bump in the road

That’s all it is

Winter’s sparseness🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of December 11, 2025

Stars

 🍂We’re all

Differently abled stars

Coffee drunk🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Morning of December 9, 2025

Lily

 🍂Cupping the lily

Inhaling rain

Silver on the brush🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

San Francisco, CA, USA

Sense and sensibility journal 

Hemlock

 Sunday, December 7, 2025

A Senryu by Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂no olive branch . . .

I have just hemlock to give

before the candle flames out🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee. https://heyyouhaiku.blogspot.com/?m=1

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Footprints

 Tanka by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂footprints in the snow

white is all over the world

fur coat of the deer

leaves of bright gold and silver

the soft growing moss🍂

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Everything and Shift

 🍂everything

depends on how

the footsteps echo🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂shift of perspective

twilight’s camera

loses focus🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Morning of December 5, 2025

I’ll be and Fine Line

 🍂I’ll be happy

When I find someone to

To watch tv with🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂There is a fine line

Between independence and loneliness

Find your village🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Morning of December 2, 2025

Fox Socks

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂new morning breaks bright

pouring coffee in fox socks

to break the dreary🍂

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