New Year’s haiku

 🍂The year turns the page

Everything lays suspended
A clock in mid tick🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

5-7-5 Haiku Journal 

Today and Time

 🍂☕️Today I need

The whole cup

Of coffee🍂☕️

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Time

Is kryptonite

These days🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of December 30, 2024

Stunning Sunrise

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A stunning sunrise
The smell of coffee warming
Such a chilly day🍂☕️

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Let’s Call It Even

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Let’s call it even
You keep the sugar cookies
Leftover wishes🍂

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It’s Still Christmastime

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂It’s still Christmas time
Purple and grey warming shirt
Start to unravel🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal 

Gingerbread 3

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🎄🍂First gingerbread house

It wasn’t a disaster

Just not up to code🎄🍂

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Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Gingerbread 2

🍂First gingerbread house

It wasn’t a disaster

Just not up to code🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal 

Gingerbread

🍂A gingerbread house
That still needs roofing
Apple cider dreams🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello 
San Francisco, California, USA

Sense & Sensibility

Unpacking Decor

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Unpacking decor
The ghost of Christmas past lives
Cost of holidays🍂

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Plates, Geraniums

 🍂It’s not fun

To be one of the plates

With no direction🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Wasted words

Among geraniums

Trying again🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Morning of December 19, 2024

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

More winter haiku

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂The windswept corners
Of an empty house waiting
For celebration🍂

🍂To welcome neighbours
A gift of plated cookies
The candlelight warms🍂

🍂The roasted chestnuts
Amid white-frosted redwoods
A moment of peace🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal 

Holly

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Holly-berry wreath
A sudden snowflake flurry
Of ice in mid-air🍂

5-7-6 Haiku Journal 

December haiku

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂In the lightest air,
A snow globe flurry jumps up
A too small sweater🍂

🍂Dimming morning light
Coldest light of December
Small yellow primrose🍂

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Restless stars and full moon

 Morning of December 14, 2024

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

🍂Restless stars

Turning and burning

Blur of a candle🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Nobody really knows me

Besides the

Full moon

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Cheeseburgers and Spiced Cider

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Savouring cheeseburgers
In the wintery morning
Breakfast on the run

Cup of spiced cider
Turning in for the hushed night
New holes in warm socks🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal 

When Riding, Nothingness

 🍂When riding

Don’t look in

The rat king’s eyes🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Nothingness

Of a vast night sky

Yet it’s everything🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Afternoon of December 8, 2024

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Sunlit

 

Tanka by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂The disappointment
Of an empty glass sunlit
Half full or empty?
Seashell clouds rolling on by
The warbler calls out lonely🍂

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Dewdrop

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂The dewdrop strewn lawn
A filigree laced curtain
Hanging on the world🍂

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Sonnet

🍂 The sonnet of leaves

So high written in the breeze
Sending me reeling🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

5-7-5 Haiku Journal 

Moment hidden,Watching cityscapes, Stilettos, Coffee Gone Cold

🍂 Problems to face

In a gilded cage

The moment hidden🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Watching cityscapes

Fade back into stardust

Tell me why

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Don’t be afraid

To be a stiletto

In a room of flats

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Coffee gone cold

Where did all the hope

Run off to?

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Flea’s Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of November 29, 2024

City of Dust

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A city of dust
All the imperfect memories
Repairing themselves🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal

Crow

 

Thursday, November 28, 2024

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A crow

Covers the moon

For a moment🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello

Cold Moon Journal 

Thanksgiving haiku

 Happy thanksgiving 🍁 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Going back again,

To your hometown pub tonight

Thanksgiving again

Thanksgiving morning

Sweet potato pie comfort

The air smells spicy🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal

Autumn haiku

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Misty rainy day
In autumn where the red leaves
Dance wild at sunset🍂

🍂Ribbons of water
A keepsake of red leaves fall
To bookmark my book🍂

🍂Shaping memories
On the long ribbon highway
Framed by bright red leaves🍂

🍂Muddle of red leaves
Sketches of what went before
This is not goodbye🍂

🍂The sepia tones
Of a bright autumn sunset
More overthinking🍂

5-7-5  Haiku Journal

Flowers

 Tanka by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Autumn afternoon

The pink blue sunset lingers

Soft and curvaceous🍂

🍂Seashells curling against pines

I’ll see you when flowers fade🍂

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Candlelit

 

Haiku

🍂Aging with flowers,
Frank Sinatra at dinner
Candlelit comfort🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

5-7-7 Haiku Journal 

By

Dirty Streets

 Five Fleas Itchy Poetry 

Afternoon of November 4, 2024

🍂Dirty streets,

Looking for a savior



Shadowed nights🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Too Fresh

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂I tried to save it
But the apple pie was too
Fresh for its own good🍂

5-7-5 Haiku Journal