Lemon Tree

 🍂Hot cup of tea 

In the shade 

of a lemon tree🍂

Leaf Issue 10

Another Raindrop

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Another raindrop

Another tear falling down

Lullaby of time🍂

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Smols

🍂Stars the rest is silent🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂surrounded but still unseen🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂reflecting lies 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

On July 27, 2027

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Smols

 Rain wash my blues away🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

A thread worth pulling on

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Fly speck biscuits of childhood 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Be my fancy fig newton🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

On July 26,2026

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Toast

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂🌙Orchid-white full moon

Melting on the horizon

Fresh butter on toast🌙🍂

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Cornflowers

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Past and present blur

Changing hues of cornflowers

Bright summer colors🍂

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First Date

 🍂singing bowls  there is great comedic potential here first date 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of July 18, 2026

Distant Harmony

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Distant harmony

Of the clearest bell striking

Our turbulent love🍂

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Midsummer and Light

 midsummer birds cling to the air the space between us 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

light comes down soft in the moment it happens morning coffee 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of July 18, 2026

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 🍂Tiramisu and impatient dreams🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂It’s about the cat🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Single step journey🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Dirty trick of nostalgia 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Days drifting on the page🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Smols

on July 18, 2026

Stricken

 Saturday, July 18, 2026

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂a sky stricken with stars puts me in my place🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee 

Circle of Salt

Another Prison

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Sadness comes in waves

A life of empty pieces

Another prison 🍂

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Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

 🍂Breaking bread getting to the bottom of things 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello  

🍂old forest tangled within walls wild birdsong 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Longing upon the page my story unwritten🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Simple good life 

Soup noodles 

Leave me wanting🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Evening of July 15, 2026

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

 🍂Down we go like a submarine sweet dissolving sugar 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Can’t move time there’s no point purple prairie sage🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Yarrow fields thick fog but we’ll make it through 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Honeysuckle  a gloomy day passes for a new dawn🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Evening of July 11, 2026

Ruins

 Saturday, July 11, 2026

An Esoteriku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂amidst the ruins I begin🍂

~

Sarah Mahina Calvello lives in San Francisco and writes mostly haiku. She loves nature and is addicted to coffee

Circle of Salt 

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 🍂Life in stitches she remembers her purse🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Sneaking chocolate cake in a thunderstorm emotions abandoned🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

🍂Leaves whirling down the rabbit hole along with my worries🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Morning of June 8, 2026

Dads Suace

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Dad’s careful fingers

You taught me your pasta sauce

I’ll never forget🍂

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Street Stawberries

🍂Street strawberries 

Wrong moment, wrong road

Writing your path 🍂

~Sarah Mahina Calvello 

Five Fleas Itchy Poetry

Afternoon of July 6, 2026

Needed

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Another coffee

And an extra-fresh doughnut

Just what is needed🍂

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Raindrops

 Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello

🍂Every raindrop

There is bound to be a tear

Falling on flowers🍂

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