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🍂

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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🍂

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Ashes

 🍂Box of ghosts

All those crooked photographs 

Ashes of youth🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

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Evening of June 24, 2026

Sugar Peas

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Lengthening shadows

Snapping the sweet sugar peas

Ripening summer🍂

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Distant

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂☕️A cup of coffee

To warm hands while watching pines

The distant silence☕️🍂

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Lulling

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌹🍂A lulling strange night

Dark garden of rose briers

Things we didn’t say🍂🌹

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Translation

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Lost in translation

The unsayable full moon

Pearl dew on grasses🍂

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Waiting

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Summer comes in jade

Stretching its shadow freely

Waiting for beauty🍂

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🍂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🍂

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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🍂

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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🍂

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