Farewells

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Saying my farewells

To past missteps and trauma

Deep saffron sunsets🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Here We Go

🍂looking down the hourglass here we go again🍂

 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of August 7, 2026

Sun

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂The sun is burning
Sandalwood and black tea taste
Midsummer napping🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Between Two Pines

 Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Circle of Salt

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂between pine cones twilight descends🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee 

Birthday Smols

 not totally delusional 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂life beneath the sand🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂words made of air🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A gerbil running amok 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂you’re clever handed 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂wasting time running away🍂

 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂tempted by unknown fruit 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂monotony of broken clocks 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂too much out there 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂long gaps of nothing🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

on August 2, 2026

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Peach

 🍂peach of mind🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

onAugust 1, 2026

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Lemon Tree

 🍂Hot cup of tea 

In the shade 

of a lemon tree🍂

Leaf Issue 10

Another Raindrop

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Another raindrop

Another tear falling down

Lullaby of time🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

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🍂Stars the rest is silent🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂surrounded but still unseen🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂reflecting lies 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

On July 27, 2027

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 Rain wash my blues away🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

A thread worth pulling on

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Fly speck biscuits of childhood 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Be my fancy fig newton🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

On July 26,2026

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Toast

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌙Orchid-white full moon

Melting on the horizon

Fresh butter on toast🌙🍂

5-7-5

Cornflowers

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Past and present blur

Changing hues of cornflowers

Bright summer colors🍂

5–7-5 Journal 

First Date

 🍂singing bowls  there is great comedic potential here first date 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of July 18, 2026

Distant Harmony

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Distant harmony

Of the clearest bell striking

Our turbulent love🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Midsummer and Light

 midsummer birds cling to the air the space between us 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

light comes down soft in the moment it happens morning coffee 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of July 18, 2026

Smols

 🍂Tiramisu and impatient dreams🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂It’s about the cat🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Single step journey🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Dirty trick of nostalgia 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Days drifting on the page🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

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on July 18, 2026

Stricken

 Saturday, July 18, 2026

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂a sky stricken with stars puts me in my place🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee 

Circle of Salt

Another Prison

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Sadness comes in waves

A life of empty pieces

Another prison 🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

 🍂Breaking bread getting to the bottom of things 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

🍂old forest tangled within walls wild birdsong 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Longing upon the page my story unwritten🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Simple good life 

Soup noodles 

Leave me wanting🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Evening of July 15, 2026

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

 🍂Down we go like a submarine sweet dissolving sugar 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Can’t move time there’s no point purple prairie sage🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Yarrow fields thick fog but we’ll make it through 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Honeysuckle  a gloomy day passes for a new dawn🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Evening of July 11, 2026

Ruins

 Saturday, July 11, 2026

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂amidst the ruins I begin🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee

Circle of Salt 

Smols

 🍂Life in stitches she remembers her purse🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Sneaking chocolate cake in a thunderstorm emotions abandoned🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Leaves whirling down the rabbit hole along with my worries🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of June 8, 2026

Dads Suace

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Dad’s careful fingers

You taught me your pasta sauce

I’ll never forget🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Street Stawberries

🍂Street strawberries 

Wrong moment, wrong road

Writing your path 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of July 6, 2026

Needed

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Another coffee

And an extra-fresh doughnut

Just what is needed🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Raindrops

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Every raindrop

There is bound to be a tear

Falling on flowers🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Smols

 🍂Amidst the ruins I begin🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Watching my clothes drown🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂In decision can cost you🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

on June 29, 2026

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Summer Solstice

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Warm summer solstice

Layers of the horizon

Touching everything🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Silence

 🌙🍂The silence 

Between our names 

Fills with moonlight🍂🌙 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Evening of June 25, 2026

Smols

 🍂What if and why not?🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Broken glass where truth was🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Piano six octaves under🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂One last dysfunctional picnic 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Inside of earth shattering 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

on June 2024

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Grace

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Fragrant apricots

Gift of a poetry book

Grace of a silk scarf🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Ashes

 🍂Box of ghosts

All those crooked photographs 

Ashes of youth🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Submission 

Evening of June 24, 2026

Sugar Peas

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Lengthening shadows

Snapping the sweet sugar peas

Ripening summer🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Distant

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂☕️A cup of coffee

To warm hands while watching pines

The distant silence☕️🍂

5-7-5

Lulling

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌹🍂A lulling strange night

Dark garden of rose briers

Things we didn’t say🍂🌹

5-7-5 Journal 

Translation

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Lost in translation

The unsayable full moon

Pearl dew on grasses🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Waiting

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Summer comes in jade

Stretching its shadow freely

Waiting for beauty🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Smols

🍂Floating the edge of nothing 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Deep thoughts circle overthinking🍂 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Yelling through rented houses🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Red wine in coffee cups 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Every week a season🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

All types of crazy

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

on June 09, 2026 

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Lingering

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂The scent lingering

I remember missing you

Geranium breeze🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Peaches

 Saturday, June 6, 2026

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Circle of Salt 

🍂days of peaches fleeting and simple🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee 

Shadow

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Shadow of your smile

🍂You haunt my dreams when you’re gone

Yellow day lilies🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Turntable Jazz

 🍂Turntable jazz

Wrapping around the night 

Satin silk🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Morning of June 4, 2026

Wood Pigeons

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Serene wood pigeons

What is it like to feel sky?

Caressing twilight🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Wistful

 

🌙🍂Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Wistful sky of stars
A soft teardrop kissed your lips
And I did the same🍂🌙

5-7-5 Journal 

Without

  Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Creativity

Left without pen and paper

Musing frustration🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

New Moon

 🍂New moon 

Unfinished but magical

I want to stay🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of May 28, 2026

Awen

 Awen

Issue 132 May 2026

Free for SAE ($2 overseas) or as PDF download:

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Malted mushy pea bowl

A watercolour new rain

Colour of summer

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Turning back over

Looking at the misty moon

Hoping for sleep

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Ebb and flow of solitude

Starlings circle azure sky

Completeness feeling

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

Smols

 🍂Canned tuna watching the news🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Don’t spin to a spinner🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Hocus potus🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Mad as the full moon🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

May 26, 2026

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Primal

 Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Circle of Salt

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂☕️a cup of coffee with the mountains primal screaming☕️🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee 

Gravity

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Everything seems still

The gravity of silence

Among peonies🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Garden

 🍂Life’s a garden 

So dig it

Sunlit sky🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of May 23, 2026

Sparkling

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Cherry coral sky

Motion and progress sparking

Calm in the chaos🍂

5-7-5 Journal I 

Night Heron

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Black crown night heron

Hunching on the water bough

An old grumpy man🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Plans

 🍂Plans not panic🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

on May 18,2026

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Variations

 🍂Variations in exactness 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of May 18, 2026

Trusty

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A walk at twilight

Pie and coffee addiction

Trusty old diner🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Complete

 🍂New moon

Unfinished 

But complete 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of May 16, 2026

Chance

 🍂Sweet mint tea

A chance of forever

Crow in shade🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

San Francisco, CA, USA

The Summer (June, July, August) issue of Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal is out!

Posted on May 13, 2026

Memories , Wild Dream, Leftover

 What Lingers

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

Memories 

 

Moonbeams 

Circling azure sky 

Wild abandonment

Of a heart left behind 

Trying to collect more good

Wild Dream

 

Magic madness rains
There’s a wildness inside 
Wet and new
Full of possibilities 

New smells of flowers 
Honey and saffron 
The sky’s shelled colors unfold
One more wild dream

Spring moon lantern 

Illuminated halo

Deep blue starless night 

Sapphire and waiting 

Years flow like water 

Soft purple heather 

Sashay in the breeze

Leftover wishes remain

The sweetest echo

Under the milky white moon

The Wise Owl Daily Verse

May 2026 What Lingers 

Honey

 Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Circle of Salt 

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂honey lingers golden in the open wound🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee.

Wonder

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌙🍂The wonder of it

Tiny birds caress moonbeams

A long winding road🍂🌙

5-7-5 Journal 

Carriage Ride

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂New York carriage ride

The maze of grand Central Park

Rain echoing down🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Suddenly

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Suddenly raining
But still very warm outside
Very confusing🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Smols part two

 🍂Sky photobombing sky sunset

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Bird chorus weekend minuet

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Old laughing lady crows screech 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

on May 02, 2026 

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Motto

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Grandfather’s motto


Never mixing grape and grain


But it tastes lovely🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Smols

 🍂Something to guac about

 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Such a ridiculous miracle

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Verklempt chaos city streets 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Some kind of mental debris

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Living through history misdeeds

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Poking holes in reality

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Haunted by unfinished words

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Keep comments brief and tasteful🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

on May 01, 2026 

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Cherry Blossom

 PJCA’s 1st International Haiku Anthology 2026:

🍂new moon—

cherry blossoms unfold

the night scent🍂

 

Sarah Mahina Calvello 

San Francisco, California, USA

Marigold

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂First morning coffee

In my marigold garden

Such fragrance haunting🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Still and Something Magic

 🍂Still in love

Sweet bitterness of blackbirds

Legacy of hope🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Something magic 

Layers upon layers

Of sunset 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of April 25, 2026

Humid Afternoons

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌹🍂Humid afternoons

Feeling very alive now

Birds on spring blossoms🍂🌹

5-7-5 Journal 

Clock

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Silhouettes of crows

No way to turn back the clock

Memory of love🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Haunted

 Thursday, April 16, 2026

Circle of Salt

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂☕️stovetop coffee a haunted doll going through motions☕️🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee.

Paper mache

 🍂Paper mache worries

They tend to crumble

In the wind🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of April 15, 2026

Dew

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂New morning dawning
Glimmering and glistening
In a drop of dew🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Hard to forget pain, always a new path

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Hard to forget pain

Peach flowers delicate curve

Remember sweetness🍂

🍂Trying to numb pain

Weighed down by these misfortunes

Always a new path🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

 🍂Spilling wine

On chocolate dirt

On murmuring roots🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Duality

Of twilight crickets

Slow mandolins🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Ravens song🍂

Time goes by

Is it enough?🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of April 11, 2026

Vanilla

 ☕️🍂Vanilla ice coffee

You told me to enjoy birds

Simple, sweet🍂☕️

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy poetry 

Morning of April 10, 2026

Camera

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Antique camera
Making all new memories
Moonlit lavender🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Wisdom

 🍂Old women selling eggs

The quiet wisdom

In everyday life🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Evening of April 7, 2026

Easter

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂☕️Sweet, easy morning

An Easter cappuccino

Tangle of flowers☕️🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Lawn chair

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Lawn-chair afternoons

Favorite for sunlit dreams

Food coma follows🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Shadows

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Stretching grey shadows

🍂A full moon on cobbled streets

Prelude to a dream🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Poetry Pea Podcast

 🍂Emerald leaves 

Napping in a straw hat 

The lines of his face 🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Poetry Pea Podcast 

S9E12

Brilliant, poetry and highlights from our judges 

Moments

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌙Memories abound

Moonlit patterns on the ground

Bright little moments🌙🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Cityscape

 nights cityscape

so beautiful in spring

honey coated leaves

Sarah Mahina Calvello

Leaf, Issue 9 

April 2026

Can’t Rest

 🍂I can’t rest in peace

Instead haunting

In retribution🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Afternoon of March 26, 2026

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Smols

 🍂A quandary of conjecture stars🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Made to edit memories🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

I’m as controlled as illusions🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Uninvited friend chronic pain🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Both guard and prisoner🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Leather face juggling tomatoes 🍅 🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

on March 26, 2026 

Smols Journal 

🍂An abandoned shoe two crows🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Doomsday and espresso cups☕️🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Misfit blood moon🍂🌙

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Only a thing to do nothing🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Espresso

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

☕️🍂Clutching blankets tight

Doomscrolling and espresso

Looking for comfort🍂☕️

5-7-5 Journal

Honey

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Flowers unburdened

Pollen count catastrophic

Try local honey🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Smols

 🍂birds thrown in storms🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Beautiful but concerning sky trash🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Discombobulated ship against the tide🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Satire and the damage done🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A touch spicy out there🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

on March 21, 2026 

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