🍂 Only thinking
Clearly with a good mattress
Warming the shadows 🍂 — Sarah Mahina Calvello, USA
Scarlett Dragonfly Journal
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Pendulums
🍂new inspiration
kaleidoscope of pendulums
on the dusty ground🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Poetry Pea, no verbs
Friday, August 30, 2024
Summer
🍂 Summer stars
Gardens wet with falling rain
Opalescent moon🌙🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Awen August 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Many Beginnings
Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello
🍂Certain of nothing
Sitting on the sunlit porch
Scenery to note🍂
🍂Clouded by morning,
The mirrored sunlit window
Many beginnings🍂
5-7-5 Haiku Jounal
Bunch of haiku, Softly and Sweetly
Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello
🍂Softly and sweetly
The lightened moon is rising
Long perfumed grasses🍂
🍂Corridors of mist
The jasmine moon of August
Missing what is gone🍂
🍂The full moon nestled
Under the dissolving mist
Bewitched and bothered🍂
🍂In the pale moonlight,
The unexplainable road
Summer hydrangeas🍂
🍂New morning dawning
Glimmering and glistening
Red poppies resting🍂
🍂Haunting the senses
Gardenias in the new storm
Wishing you were here🍂
5-7-5 Haiku Journal
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Anticipation, Finding Secrets, Walking Down the Path
Sarah Mahina Calvello produces her work using an association of ideas, an old Japanese technique.
🍂Anticipating
Flowers become cold
Under the hazy moon🌙🍂
🍂Finding secrets
Left in the new grass garden
Stolen shadows🍂
(Stolen shadows might be an absence of light, the darkness beloved by Taoists.)
Walking down the path
Leaves turn to color
Waiting for the sun
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Better Than Starbucks
All These Colors
All These Colors
By Sarah Mahina Calvello
🍂All these colors
Combed and spun
Into fine spirals
Of cotton candy
Dying the sky
Morning rose
Covers everything
With a patient brightness🍂
Another day
Of rise and fall
Published somewhere
Words Unspoken
🍂Words unspoken
Sometimes you need that sweetness
When night turns to morning sun🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Quiet Moments
🍂 Strawberry muffins with strong coffee
Quiet moments
In changing light 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku Submission
Brownstone Poets
Chrysanthemums
🍂 Funny what you remember
Chrysanthemums in water as perfume
Trees sway gently 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Hanson’s Soda, Forget-me-Knots
🍂 Hanson’s soda
Laughing in my grandma’s pool
Night jasmine hangs🍂
—
🍂Forget-me-knots
Redwoods turning cold
Hot chocolate to warm hands 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Years Flow Like Water, French Lavender Afternoons
🍂 What might have been
Years flow like water
Unkept garden🍂
—
🍂I see the silver lining
And it looks good on you
French lavender afternoons
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Faithful City Lights, Sugar Coated, Down the Rabbit Hole
🍂 Nothing should
Drag you down on this fine evening
Faithful city lights 🍂
—
🍂All I here is talk
Sugar coated words
Fragile winter🍂
—
🍂Now
Down the rabbit hole
Situation rectified 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Let’s Go
☕️🍂 Freshly brewed coffee
Saturday farmers market
Let’s go☕️🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Scones, tea with biscuits, Supermarket Carnations, Kettle Screams
🍂Scones with honey
Flowers on the table
Birds on a spring breeze 🍂
—
🍂Tea with biscuits
Welcoming the day
As the shy clouds emerge 🍂
—
🍂Brown sugar cake
Supermarket carnations
The morning winds on🍂
—
🍂Kettle screams
Cinnamon roll
Soft on the tongue 🍂
—
🍂Just another
Snickerdoodle morning
Soft and sweet 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Time had marched on, Past Missteps
🍂Couldn’t find my watch
Searched high and low , I assumed
Time had marched on🍂
—
🍂Never forget
Past missteps
Loose cobblestones 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
The bus is Here
🍂She looks at you with old eyes
In a young face
The bus is here🍂
Sarah Calvello
Published Somewhere
New Light, Under the Mango Tree, Satin Night Sky
🍂New light
Emerging new dawn
Unexpected hope 🍂
—
🍂Morning light
Evoking new dreams
Under the mango tree🍂
—
🍂Satin, night sky
Framing the tallest redwood
Wild, spicy smell🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Eucalyptus Hangs,Steady Heartbeat
🍂 Eucalyptus hangs
Walking down the path
Breath wind circles 🍂
—
🌙🍂Moon bright and clear
Raindrops falling
Steady heartbeat 🍂🌙
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Scrambled eggs, Broken Clock, Passing Smile
☕️🍂The first day of spring
Scrambled eggs and toast
Coffee for breakfast ☕️🍂
—
🍂Broken clock
Is a comfort through the troubles
Of the day 🍂
—
🍂Passing smile
Feeling grateful to be seen
On a busy street 🍂
—
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
In This Moment, Comfort of a Vibrant Sunrise,By Strong Coffee
🍂 In this moment
There are no cares
In the big armchair 🍂
—
🍂Quiet
Comfort of a vibrant sunrise
Allows hope🍂
—
🍂One of the best feelings
A dog choosing to say hello
In the misty gray🍂
—
☕️🍂Mundane mood
The day only made better be
By strong coffee ☕️🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Near Creek Haiku
Brownstone Poets
Madness, Killer View, Drizzling Honey, New Sweater Time
🍂Driving in madness
Down the highway of the heart
Glorious change 🍂
—
🍂Killer view
The breeze is cheering
Wondering is cheering 🍂
—-
🍂Drizzling honey
Over breakfast porridge
Good beginning 🍂
—
🍂The tattered sweater
Looks like the dog in the park
Time for a new sweater 🍂
—
🍂Time
These memories that change
Even when they’re gone 🍂
—
🍂Happy to join
In a celebratory breakfast
Amidst the chaos 🍂
Sarah Mahina calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Mirrored Waters, Spiced Ginger Biscuits, grandma’s cookies, Some Ideas, Open Road att Sunset
🍂Mirrored waters
Soft and trembling
Vulnerable 🍂
—
🍂Christmas preparation
Spiced ginger biscuits
Smell like magic 🍂
—
🍂Metallic tin
For grandma’s cookies
Always satisfying 🍂
—
🍂Some ideas
Many questions
Good place to start 🍂
—
🍂Wind in your hair
Open rose at sunset
Dawn is breaking 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Brownstone poets
Dolphin
🐬Whisper ocean stream
Dark, beautiful
Natural sea song
It crashes —
Blue Dolphin 🐬
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Glass Cherry 96
Outside the Window, Watercolor Sky
🍂Outside the window
The garden lies in disarray
With it’s mismatched secrets🍂
—
🍂Forgotten dreams
Watercolor sky
Lonely and Alive 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Red Scarves,Starlt,Dark Rye Bread, Yellow Flowers
🍂 Red scarves
Hot cocoa warning hands
A new chapter begins 🍂
—
Starlit symphony 🍂
Hair blowing free
On the water 🍂
—
🍂Dark rye bread
Peach jelly to welcome the morning
A new day breaks🍂
—
🍂Family
Bread on the table
Yellow flowers 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
A Lone Poppyseed,Missing You
🍂 A lone poppyseed
Escaped to the gray blanket
From my morning muffin 🍂
—
🍂Missing you
Life is a chessboard
You’re four days away 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Summer, a Passing Breeze, Sweatpants and Coffees, Believe
🍂 Why is summer
So sleepless and hot?
Clinging to the cold rain 🍂
—
🍂A passing breeze
Both sweet and unsweet
Memories 🍂
—-
🍂☕️Sweat pants and coffee
Light creeping up vibrant
Behind dark curtains 🍂☕️
—
🍂Believing
The sweet lie
Such a lovely mask🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Under Eucalyptus , In Flannel Pajamas, Sun, Hidden Beauty, What’s Remembered
🍂This quiet
Warm rush of breath
Under eucalyptus 🍂
—
🍂Talking about the past
Roasting marshmallows around the fire
In flannel pajamas 🍂
—
🍂Something about
Staying out until the sun
Comes up 🍂
-
🌙🍂Hidden beauty
Trapped in amber
Opalescent moon🌙🍂
—
🍂It’s funny
What’s remembered
Thought to be forgotten 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Friday, August 23, 2024
Koi pond, a Cup of Tea, Starling, Earl Grey,Honeyed Clovet?a Stolen Kiss,Paths Diverge
🍂Koi pond
Flowers everywhere
Enjoying Sunday 🍂
—
🍂Exposing
The mystery
Of a cup of tea 🍂
—
🍂Outside
A confused starling
Calls for its friend 🍂
—
🍂The classic scent
Of his earl grey
Eucalyptus stars 🍂
—
🍂Grandmother
Teaching us to make bracelets
Of honeyed clover 🍂
—
🍂A stolen kiss
Under climbing night jasmine
About time🍂
—
🍂Paths change
We diverge
Diverge for the better🍂
—
☕️🍂Making coffee
The dance of the morning
All too familiar 🍂☕️
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Beads on a Neclace, Reality, a New Road to Follow
🍂 The past is moments
Perfect and incomplete
Beads on a necklace 🍂
—
🍂The secret
Is to embrace the mess
A new road to follow 🍂
—
💐🍂Reality
A circle within a circle
New vase of flowers 💐🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Over
☕️🍂 Be glad
When all of this is over
Hot cup of coffee ☕️ 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
The Quiet Ache, Folding Laundry, Desire, Long Socks, The Candle
🌙🍂The quiet ache
Of past memories
Waning moon 🌙🍂
—
🍂💐Folding laundry
Isolated with the moon
And white flowers 💐 🍂
—
🍂Desire
Growing comfortable
Scuffed slippers 🍂
—
🍂Long socks
Pretty sure the weather calls for
A woolly hat 🍂
—
🍂The candle
Drips and illuminates
The cornered shadows🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Bittersweet Symphony, John Muir,Fresh Strawberries, Red Maple Leaves,
🍂 Trying to make ends meet
It’s a bittersweet symphony
That’s life 🍂
—
🍂Sauntering
In the mountains
For John Muir🍂
—
🍂Fresh strawberries
Reveling in solitude
In the pale sun 🍂
—
🍂Red maple leaves
A mosaic on the ground
Time to get some rest🍂
—
🍂Mockingbird at dawn
Cajoles the moon from the sky
Chatting the sun up🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
A bit gloomy, Cafe con Leche,It’s Been a Long Day
☕️🍂A bit gloomy
Scribbling down morning thoughts
Washed down by coffee ☕️🍂
—
🍂☕️Café con Leche
Making slow Saturdays
Bearable in the rain 🍂☕️
—
☕️🍂The sun burning low
A coffee bought by a friend
It’s been a long day☕️🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Gazing, Safe Memories
🍂 Gazing outside
The sky goes on forever
Peaks of memories 🍂
—
🍂An old typewriter
A bomber jacket
Safe memories 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Cheese, Sunflower, Truth
🍂Cheese with crackers
Peaches and nostalgia
Letting days go by🍂
—-
🍂Now,
The dress pattern is sunflowers
Welcoming spring 🍂
—
🍂You are indeed
A beautiful bauble
Holding truth 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Jigsaw, December
🍂 This life seems to be
Quite a jigsaw puzzle
Wild yellow fields 🍂
—-
🍂That dress
Worn in December
Magic moment 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Shoe
👠🍂Won’t get pulled in
Waking up , breaking myself in
Like a cracked and worn shoe 👠🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Unspoken
🍂Words unspoken
Sometimes you need that sweetness
When night turns into morning sun 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Wine, a new game, and Pebbles
🍂A glass of wine
And a new game
Waiting for the rose gold sunrise 🍂
—
🍂Water
I like how it misbehaves
Wind ruffles the leaves to sleep 🍂
—
🍂Scattered pebbles
Trying to grasp
Onto something 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Time
🍂 Time to make a change
Time and moonlight are both reflective
To the bendable experience 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Bear Creek Haiku
Mismatched Secrets
Sarah Mahina Calvello whispers of a gardens secrets. Ms, Calvello writes with steady mindfulness.
🍂Outside the window
The garden lies in disarray
With its mismatched secrets 🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Better Than Starbucks
Anticipating , Secrets, Path
Sarah Calvello produces her work using association of ideas, an old Japanese technique.
🌙🍂Anticipating
Flowers becoming cold
Under the hazy moon 🍂🌙
🍂Finding secrets
Left in the new grass garden
Stolen shadows🍂
(Stolen shadows an absence of light, a darkness, beloved by Taoists)
☀️🍂Walking down the path
Leaves turn to color
Waiting for the sun ☀️🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Better Than Starbucks
Moon and Transparency
Sarah calvello lives in San Francisco, where she sees transparency without consistency
🌙🍂One of those nights
Where the moon seems to be looking
For a new curve 🌙🍂
(Grateful acceptance for the moons phases)
🍂Looking out
Transparency without consistency
Leaves are falling 🍂
Sarah Calvello
Better Than Starbucks
Senses Haiku
Sarah Mahina Calvello conveys both a deep appreciation of the world around her and a playful approach to sweets and sensual delights. She offers admirable examples of the “neo-haiku,” poems that stray from my beloved 5-7-5 form.
🍂Ube ice cream
After being too long in the sun
Such a relief🍂
🍂Cinnamon sugar coffee is soft
Hits my tongue and makes me smile
Sweet reprieve🍂
🍂Seeing the ocean again
Makes me remember how you used to
bring me shells back
Weeping and falling long seagrass🍂
(The seagrass loads this beautiful piece with a Zen component.)
🍂I love
When the city is quiet in daylight
So rare🍂
🍂🌙I stare at the moon
Transfixed
Nestled under dissolving mist🌙🍂
🍷🍂A secret
Spilled onto murmuring roots
Over a glass of spilled 🍷🍂
Sarah Mahina Calvello
Better Than Starbucks
Fractured Dreams
☀️🍂 a kaleidoscope
of fractured dreams
coming back together🍂☀️
**Sarah Calvello
Sarah Mahina Calvello, She is a part-time student at city College of San Francisco living in San Francisco. She is published currently mostly haiku. She enjoys coffee,, dogs and writing.
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