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 

Smols

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 

Smols

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 

Smols

Found

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌹Glow of a candle

The thorny rose-vine climbing

Not broken just found🌹🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Morsel

 Smols

🍂A morsel of malarkey🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

on March 14, 2026

Emerald

 🍂emerald leaves –– 

napping in a straw hat 

the lines of his face🍂

It will appear in our first journal of the year, Poetry Pea Journal 1:26, and will also be read on the Poetry Pea podcast on 31st March. I’m very much looking forward to sharing it.

Sunlit Scars

  🍂Too many

Sunlit scars

On busy streets🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

San Francisco, CA, USA

The April Issue of Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal is Out!

Posted on March 13, 2026

Kissing

🍂Kissing to make up

Then going to bed

In separate rooms🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of March 12, 2026

Golden

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Tears like stars on cheeks

Golden poppies in sand dunes

A forlorn dreamer🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Refuge

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Time is dreamy slow
Red Merlot and liquid cheese
A refuge of you🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Mirror

 Monday, March 9, 2026

Circle of Salt

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂mirror of honey starts the healing🍂

~

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

Winter Moon

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Winter moon lantern

Illuminated halo

Deep-blue starless night🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Stillness , Stepping out, Cafe Au Lait

 🍂Calm reflections

Stepping out

Two sides

Of the comfort zone🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂☕️Cafe au lait

Reflecting

Her happiness☕️🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Calm reflections

Stillness matters

In all this noise🍂

 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Evening of March 2, 2026

Windblown

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Cold and lonely park

The psychology  of loss

Windblown daffodils🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Savoring

 🍂🌙Night savoring

Blackberry ginger tea

Black moonlight🌙🍂

 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of February 28, 2026

Memory

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Memory lingers

🍂A star’s reverie haunting

Blue-shadowed stillness🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Tulips

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌙🍂Suspended moonbeams

Soft edged angled silhouettes

Paint tulips ghostly🌙🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Awen

 Awen

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🍂My morning muted

Lemon curd on marble rye bread

Enjoying silence🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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🍂A lifetime of echoes

Grace and gravity surrounds

Sunset glows stillness🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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🍂Pouring the red wine

Just fractured motivation

A reprieve needed🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

Pasta

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Pasta on the stove

Fresh rosemary lingering

Invades the senses🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Ducks

 🍂Ducks gather ruffling some feathers🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of February 20, 2026

Cherry

 🍂🌙Soft red lights

Turning the moon

Into a cherry🌙🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of February 20, 2026

Omen

 Thursday, February 19, 2026

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂twilight the omen of a crow🍂

Circle of Salt

~

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

Stars and Message

 🍂Stars are dizzy drunk

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Turning mess into message🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

on February 18, 2026 

Smols

Grocery Trip

 🍂☕️Grocery trip

The high price

Of coffee comfort🍂☕️

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of February 17, 2026

Sweet Dionysus

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Sweet Dionysus

Cups offered of faithfulness

Garnet grapes handpicked🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Starlit

 Tanka by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Starlit hopefulness

Come home tonight to my arms

Waiting at the beach

Caressing spiraled seashells

Kiss me and call me by name🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Hope

 🍂The hope that was there

Of love behind a window

A light left burning🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

5-7-5 Journal

Some Things

 🍂Some things won’t fade

If your teacup’s empty

Time to go home🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of February 7, 2026

Echoes

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Broken clock echoes

Whirligig days droning on

A coffee IV🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Fairy Dust

 🌙🍂moon

illuminates your shadow

in fairy dust🍂🌙

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Morning of February 4, 2026

Emerald

 🍂Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Dark emerald leaves

Napping in a straw sun hat

The lines of his face🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Chaos and Illusion

 🍂 Too much chaos 

Thoughts put

On ice🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Aging star

Illusion

On illusion 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of January 30, 2026

Untouched

 

Untouched 

🍂Storms have an off way

Of teathering us all 

To reality

Grief changes the hearts beating

Murmuring of birds

Emerging out of the satin quiet

A map lies hidden 

Winding back to your hearts home

Collecting seashells 

Two true spirit unbridled 

Desire untouched

Twisting to the sun

Echoing of memory 

Time changes with the leaves 

It’s hard to remember pain 

Even harder to remember sweetness

🍂

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Whirligig Days

 🍂Echo of clocks

Whirligig days

Coffee IV🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Evening of January 27, 2026

Smols

 🍂trouble, expectations

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Cricket song a lost hymn

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

inviting elements to cleanse doorways

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

People outed as struggling

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Searching for my lullaby insomnia

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

Morning light evoking new dreams🍂

— Sarah Mahina Calvello

on January 27, 2026 

Smols

Jack the Ripper

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂not so foggy now


Since Jack the Ripper faded


on London cobbles🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Nostalgia

 🍂Scattered sunlight

Nostalgic or

Something else🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of January 24, 2026

Upturned

 An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂🌙upturned crescent of an offering🌙🍂

~

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

Circle of Salt

Berry Pie

 🍂 Berry pie

Too fresh

For its own good🍂


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Journal 

Evening of January 22, 2026

Hug

 🍂 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

just give me a hug
or something that’s pathetic
feeling low lately🍂

5-7-5

Poems in the Snow , Poetry Pea Podcast

On a bare branch

Filigree gold spotted 

Calm in chaos

-

Cardinals come 

Waiting for scarlet berries 

to fall

Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Original poems in the snow

Poetry Pea Podcast S9E1

Unsaid

 🍂Tanka by Sarah Mahina Calvello

birds darting through pines

caught in a fragile sunbeam 

the things left unsaid

following the road back home

the cold sunlight falls away🍂

5-7-5 Journal

Betrayal

 🍂Narcissus

Stone-white lilies

Of betrayal🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

San Francisco, CA, USA

Sense & Sensibility ~ February 2026

Posted on January 14, 2026

Star Dusted and Full Cup

 🌙🍂Star dusted moon crickets song🍂🌙

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Full cup attitude

But lately

It’s running dry🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Evening of January 13, 2026

Sage

 Monday, January 12, 2026

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂a draft stirs the last

of the sage ash

sparseness of winter🍂

~

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

Circle of Salt