Espresso

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

☕️🍂Clutching blankets tight

Doomscrolling and espresso

Looking for comfort🍂☕️

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Honey

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Flowers unburdened

Pollen count catastrophic

Try local honey🍂

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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🌹🍂

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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🍂

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Refuge

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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

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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🍂

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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

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Evening of March 2, 2026

Windblown

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Cold and lonely park

The psychology  of loss

Windblown daffodils🍂

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