Uncharted

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

☀️🍂Carefully jumping
To a jagged silhouette
The sun uncharted☀️🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Carving

 🍂Carving 

An ending _

Forget-me-knots🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Chrysanthemum 34 journal 

Moon Shimmering and déjà vu

🍂🌙 Moon shimmering

Plum blossoms

The cards I’ve been dealt🌙🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌙🍂Weird feeling

Living a loop

Déjà vu🌙🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Morning of April 26, 2025

Five Fleas Journal

Moonrise and Bath Water

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🌙🍂Brokenness mending
Our hearts soft fragments falling
Moonrise on cattails🌙🍂

🌙🍂The bad memories
Poured out in a graceful arc
With the bath water🍂🌙

5-7-5 Journal 

Graffiti

 🍂No graffiti there

What are you supposed to read
The subway waiting🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

5-7-5 Journal 

Hushed

 🌙🍂Why

Do my sorrows hide
In the hushed night? 🌙🍂

Sarah Mahina Calvello
San Francisco, CA, USA

Sense and sensibility journal 

Illusion

 ☀️🍂Illusion of fog

A white peony climbing
To the dizzy sun🍂☀️

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

5-7-5 Journal 

Mooring

 

Tanka by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌙Obsidian night

A ship that’s lost its mooring
With an offered heart
I’ll find my way back to you
My harbour to your harbour🌙🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Possibilities and silhouetted room

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌙Shadowed room at dusk
Quiet, long exposure hours
Possibilities

Silhouetted room
Moonlight on the soft brown earth
Sweetness that endures🍂🌙

5-7-5 Journal 

Barefoot

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

Collecting seashells
🍂In your eyes moonlight lingers
Barefoot in the sand🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Loop , Photos

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Around in a loop,
This broken merry-go-round
Displaced disarray

Worn clothes and photos
A warehouse of memories
All that’s really left🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Night Thermals

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌙Wearing night thermals
Sapphire stars slicing fire
In the cold shadows🌙🍂

Note: Fire is two syllables here.

5-75 Journal 

Marbled

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂All the sun-hat girls
Drinking red wine at sunset
On marbled benches🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Easter

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

☀️🍂When the birds came back
Ordering a bird carving
Special for Easter🍂☀️

5-7-5 Journal

Spring

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Pablo Neruda
You knew they couldn’t stop spring
The pollen of hope🍂

“They can cut all the flowers, they will not stop spring” – Pablo Neruda

Sweet

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂☀️Bite of something sweet
No talking before coffee
Alive for the day🍂☀️

5-7-5 Journal 

Freudian

 🍂Just filthy

Enough to work

Freudian slip🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Morning of April 11, 2025

Five Fleas Journal 

 

Horrorku

🍂A rustling trench coat
A strange vagabond walking
The colour of lead🍂

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

5-7-5 Journal

Floor Tangerines

 

Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂young love

mellowing fast

the floor tangerines 🍂

—Sarah Mahina Calvello

Cold Moon Journal 🌙

Depths

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂A small piece of time
Dig into the depths of shade
Need you to see me🍂

5-7-5 Journal 

Planting and Surprising

 🍂Planting flowers

Suddenly my backyard

Is botanical

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Surprising

Fondness for ghosts

Memory lane🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Journal 

New Tastes

 

Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

☕️🍂Slice of pie with cheese
Transported to diner days
New tastes to savor 🍂☕️

5-7-5

Sideways

 

Horrorku

🌙🍂The inside-out house
Sideways possibilities
Skeleton keyring🍂🌙

By Sarah Mahina Calvello

5-7-5 Journal