Saturday, November 28, 2020

~Autumn~


  •  

  • Leaves turning cold

  • Light turning Colder 

  • Standing in the moonlight

  • Catch my breath

  •  

  • Flowers sleep 

  • In forgotten warmth 

  • Soft trees whisper

  • It’s a

  • Chapter ending

  • but beginning

  •  

  • Time sneaks up
    Too close to ignore
    A good time

  • For moon-viewing

  • And hot chocolate

  • Breath circles wind

  • Walking down the path
    Leaves turn to color
    Waiting for the sun
    In the warmth

  • Of an embrace

  •  

  • Reflective
    Red embers
    Of shiny leaves 

  • Nothing left

  • To be wanting

  • Just like

  • A dream

                        ~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Spring~

  •  

  • Laughing flowers 

  • Tremble and nod

  • Until were both dizzy

  • In the glaring sun

  •  

  • A new plant for the garden 

  • Afternoon tea

  • Seems to be the answer

  • In the

  • Month of affection

  •  

  • Anticipating

  • Happy Skylarks

  • Flit in between 

  • New sunlight 

 

        Finding yourself

        In the new grass garden 

        Stolen moments

        In the shadows 

        No more questions    

        Only newness


~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Monday, November 23, 2020

~Moments~

 The tea

Has already been spilled

In a beautiful kaleidoscope

That fall away

And comes tiger again

On the wood dusted ground

Amber light

Covers everything

A overwhelming juniper tree stretching

Outstretching branches

Spiderwebs

The sunlight looks strange through

Brown benches border

This courtyard

Of my childhood


Only now revealing

That I’ve always held onto

The small moments

That's all I was raised

To expect


Little moments

That feel fine but only

After coffee


Pages of books

Making way for better days

Though torn and frayed


~Sarah Mahina Calvello


Sunday, November 8, 2020

~New~

 


New


Waiting for the new light

In this darkness

Turn the page

Start a new chapter

It’s better there


Hidden in the cool green shadows

Trees with bent branches

Reach

Vanishing in the haze

A different way

To be


Ticking clocks

Kaleidoscope  of pendulums

On the ground

New inspiration

To find

The right


Full apples

Turned golden

a flicker

of light

Echos of things

I have said


The light resides here

Waiting to 

Be followed


                    Sarah Mahina Calvello

Friday, November 6, 2020

~Rhymes~

 I wish the fruit

Of summer could always be fresh

And ripe

Blackberry and spinach salad

Blackberry wine

Memories comfort the shadows

 

you can write rhymes 

but you can't

write mine

 

Sometimes good intentions

Don’t come across

So well

 

 I’ll try to

 join you 

in the night

 

Something 

in your smile

you know

Pulls me

 

Full moon

When nothing

Is reserved

Light up

My darkness

Holds me

Together

In this

Strage

Sweet dream

 

I live for

Little moments

Like this

Lost

In silence

My heart 

is on the run 

Until it’s

found a home

 

If you don’t try

You look foolish

I will

Remember you

 

                                S

~Take Me~

 Take me

The way I am

a china doll

Wayward in the world

Meandering and swaying 

 

Boxes in a row

It’s only about

what you know

if you’re happy

in the same shoe’s

The days

Don’t slow down 

 

Such a blunder 

sometimes 

I even wonder

 

Right here waiting

For something hazy

Right here 

Waiting

For something true

 

Tomorrow creeps 

on the petty wings

of everyday

So close

But really,

An ocean away

 

One step closer,

Unfolding

My days

 

                        Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Birds~

 


~Birds~


everyday passes by

and you can barely see

huddled within yourself

layers upon feathery layer

a folded winter flower


thick and cold with wear

you’ve missed so many birds

bare and black

on whispers of gray branches

icy circles in the cold gray 

you wait

almost not knowing

what for anymore

hold onto the good

and let go of the bad

like breathing

like something more

a liquid sigh trembles

in the drowsy shadows


Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Missed~


always a pace

ar two ahead

we are orphans of

the storm


 the white trumpets

 of flowers climb

 thanks for

             making me smile
          

I drowned

I faltered 

breath 

of heartbeat

skipped 


Sooner or later

The days

Will prevail 

All that glitters

isn’t gold

You have to shift through

To get to the good


Go for

the moon

Now and then

there’s a light

in the darkness


Pay more attention

to silence

it vibrates

among the

Echo’s

Listen to

All the mismatched sounds

We missed



                                                                              Sarah Mahina Calvello