Too Brief and Lesson

 🍂too brief moments silence becomes heavy when the noise stops 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂🌙maybe the lesson is to go down a road with no stars🌙🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Afternoon of August 30, 2026

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Solitude

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Turning the next page

Don’t skip the messy chapters

Solitude thriving🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Still Unseen and Sit Quietly

 sit quietly, the song can swallow the moment🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂still unseen stars the rest is silent reflection 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Morning of August 28, 2026

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Awen

 Awen

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Taking the plunge

Into the ebbing ocean

Trusting new chances

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Such fairy tales

Broken Dreams through broken doors

Melt like candle light wax

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Cornflower shadows

Ardour of wildflowers

Warm midsummer days

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Marmite spread on toast

Tasting like soft salt water

In the morning

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

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Eclipsed and Mad Hatter

 another day eclipsed spiraling into the 

unknown 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

 

🍂mad hatter midsummer frightened bird of hope 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Morning of August 25, 2026

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Fresh New Morning and Everyone Has

 🍂fresh new morning orange blossoms can’t disguise the truth🍂 

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂everyone has dirty laundry the broken streetlight flickers 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Evening of August 23, 2026

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Moments

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

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New yellow daisy
Summer’s reflecting mirror
Moments of beauty🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Moonlight Glints

 🍂🌙moonlight glints from a lonely pagoda our secrets linger🌙 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Evening of August 20, 2026

Smols

 🍂choosy choosers choose destiny🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂sound of clouds gathering🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂the past is another country🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

On August 20, 2026

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Rain and Roots: A Nature & Earth Haiku Anthology

 

Sound, the Past

 🍂sound of clouds gathering🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂the past is another country🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

On August 18, 2026

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A Sky and a Moment

 🍂waiting for sweetness candlelight reverberates mirrored surfaces🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂A moment is all we are flickering candle🍂

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of August 14, 2026

New Rain on Lilies

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂New rain on lilies

Two paths to every problem

Perfect and messy🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Vagabond and Messy Chapters

 🍂vagabond phantoms the best at being unseen in moonlight 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂turning the page don’t skip the messy chapters🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of August 14, 2026

Five Fleas

 🍂calm down a little we’re all in a rush pouring more coffee🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

🍂rose-colored reality in the rose garden 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂clock ticking shape of kimono tea under the moon 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of August 11, 2026

Brewing

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

☕️🍂New coffee brewing

Sharp Mexican vanilla

Such a heady taste🍂☕️

5-7-5 Journal 

Hollyhock

 🍂hollyhock hocus pocus 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

on August 11, 2026

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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🍂

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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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