Sunday, March 25, 2018

~Hicory~

photograph a
shelter in
the pouring
rain born
before the
wind

keep the
doop open
you started
the fire
not me
if you run
your engine right
you'll get
there on
time roll
the dice
for me
unpredicted silhoette

coffee cups
drunk and discarded
fallen lace
hickory wind
the dim sunlight is
creeping in
again

make
some noise
 I'm glad
to know
you, be
my sunshine
after the rains
wash away
we trip
on clouds
because we
are too high

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Believe~

bury your
name you
never saw
the truth
coming
settle down
I'll be
your safety
during those
breathless moments
all that
mess we
lived trough

we were
made for
chasing dreams
where lonely
hearts go
even though
we still
waiting, believe

alone with
my thoughts
I will bleed
out my
sorrow
tea sighs
cloying roses
perfume
and whisper
temptation in
hushed voices

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Beautiful Confusion~

luck doesn't
unlock the
key doesn't
live inside
any borders
no lines
to stay
within

everything is
there that
you need
sometimes you
have to
travel far
away in
order to
find what
is closet
 to you

in a dreamy
sort of
way you
say everything
has a purpose
a stone
the stars
even you

but keep
dreaming
but you
should know
you should never
dream unprotected
that's perfect,
the beautiful
confusion your
not supposed
to understand it,
you're supposed
to let
it wash
over you
 like a
heady dream

melodic jangle
sharing crimson
smiles in
secret
sear it
into me
together,
we'll piece
together the
moonlight

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Clarity~

all my
clarity
was burned
down to
a candle
burning down
the days
the hours

just for
tonight forget
how good
it is
be in
a dream

and if
I only have
one shot
don't waste
it on
something vacant

you had
me dizzy
now I'm
stumbling
curious nervoiusness
ackward but
I'm recovering

weaving through
the stars
if you
look
to the sky

I guess
we all
loose our
way now
and then

I'm just
hoping I'll
find new
meaning

desperate to
change everything
seems louder
when I'm not
alone with my
thoughts

the fushias
shine electric
in the shadowed
dusk

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Saturday, March 24, 2018

~Breadcrumbs~

If I
ever go
there you
can show
me around

if I get
out of
my way
see things
in a whole
new light
try to
justify
the shadow
of a dream

there is
nowhere to
hide stand up
face the
enemy you have
the power
of conviction

there is
no more
sacrifice moonlight
with sleepy
eyes

people stare
as I spin
stranded chaos
the only road
I've ever
been down
the veins
map out
in a
heart

another feather
fell of
my wings
follow the
forgotton breadcrumbs

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Combine~

saturated sunsets
the sweet caress
 of twilight
waiting to
spark
my dreams
where long
sweet grasses
grow wild

take my
hand refreshing
fountain take
my mind and change n\what I see
how can people be
so unkind
like Neil Young,
I wonder the same

but my
heart turns
upside down
you made me

I feel
dizzy but
you say
I have
charisma
soul meets
body and
houses like
mismatched shoes

you're the
only sound
I want to
hear
softly soaring
through the
atmosphere

jasmine perfumes
cloyes and
climbs
in order
to mold
you have
to melt
and combine
to reunite

maybe the
truth is
I let myself
go
go hazy
there are
roads left

in my
shoes I
I hope
I dind a place
better suited
for me

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Lessons~

I wish
only one
time
you could
stand in
my shoes

I learn
my lessons
from the
birds
they walk
with so much
confiedence

the sky,
which holds
the clouds
is their
safe place
to hide

these pictures
of buildings
are taller
then I
have seen

you have
a moment
in the
business of
the street
to illuminate
the fire
inside

a vision
in the
morning when
the light
comes trough
a masterpiece
of it's
own design

touch me
under a
lilac
sky sweet
and cleansing
lingering with
exciting uncertainty

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Crash~

the first smile
is always harder
when you
leave again

hot coffee
stains mosaics
on the
sunlit ground
fading
into the
leaves

take off
speeding but
don't you
crash now
I know
your eyes
but they
don't quite
know me
yet I
feel you
coursing through
my veins
like fire
with every
heartbeat

I feel
chaos and
disorder are
about to
ensue
my kind of
night

if it's something
that makes
you truely happy
then do it
I look
forward to
the evolution
of your
attitude wonderful
places like this
still exist
where change
happens slowly
it's a
good thing

jumble of
thoughts
floating around
in my mind
so you're
really
playing with
fire

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Constant~

my head
on your
chest listening
to the rainfall
mixed with
your heartbeat
what a
heady
sound, both
steady
both constant

may your
journey be
more eventful
then mine

change is
never a
tangible thing
you can taste
or feel

a peeling
orange golden
and citrus
bitter sweet
a coin
that won't
be tossed

like love
in first sight
I like
how that
sounds, you're
waiting
to become a
butterfly
this is
the larva
part

like the
moon the
tide pulls
some thiings
can be
guaranteed
but it's
hard to
be strong
all the
time

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Promise~

Rilke said it
"perhaps the
dragons in
our lives
are only
princesses wanting
to see,
just once,
with loyalty
and courage, perhaps
frightens us
in our deepest essense,
something helpless
that wants our love"

every promise
did't wort out
like it
was planned
I'm so
wrapped up
let me
go
just relax
let me
take all
the weight

it's hard
to know
what you'll become
if you
give up

this is
a memory
I can
use trapped
in a state
between midnight
and dawning
a place
of no
cosequence
the future
opened wide
escape sound
and gravity

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Perspective~

I understand
in life
sometimes we
fight the
current and
other times
we run
with the river
I want
that velvet  sweet

I was
made to
taste your
kiss I
was never
made to
fall away

magic is
angles and
deception weighs
heavy on
your heart
I'll wait
don't forget

shake the
excess no
more lies
no mas

I'll shift
my perspective
even if
I shift
it doesn't mean
I'll really
know

like Sarah
Vaughan said,
one look
at you
and my
heart grows
tipsy in me

sometimes I
feel lost
in a foreign
town let's
keep make-believing
this clock
ticks down
and seems
to be teasing

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Thursday, March 22, 2018

~Stars~

lines blurr
so easily but
good thing's
come time
keeps going
the clock
keeps ticking
down rusty
cogs keep
turning

promised change
leaves me
spinning unresolved
in the
faint lint
of evening

it takes
an ocean
of trust
there is
still innocence
in subsiding
pain

I remember
meeting you
standing with
feeble hands
grasp
rise and
fall
with the
rest of us

trying to
get closer
to what we
think love
should be

soft with
the night
finally finding
the courage
to let go

I like
to think
what lies
beyond you
only live
once so
drink the
offered honey
I learn
my lessons
from the
birds time

only
adds to
the flame
 but it's
hard to
face that
that open
space that
take it's toll

go where
it's warm
gravitate to
the willing
and go
from there

I'll walk
the same
through the
flowers another
tin angel
swaying lazily
through doors
 like days
burn hours

don't let
anything steal
your smile
away even
though it
takes so
much to
be brave

only when
the sky
is the
darkest is
when you
can see
the stars 

you know
it takes a long time

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Carnations~

your not
a sait
of his
devotion pink
carnations and
Spanish sayings
golden candles
vanilla and sweet
flowers perfume
the long
hallway

velvet curtains
conceal what's
too hard
to say
words chosen
so carefully

it's hard
because I
can't be
there for
you I can't
carry the
weight
for you

maybe what
I need
a little
color to
change my
perspective

you're looking
but not
seeing
take my
hand
take me
somewhere new
have mercy
on whatever's left
of my
heart
I'm a
puppet on
a string

if memories
are malleable,
then the
future must be
too

I don't
need a
lot but
I deserve
something I'll
wait if
it's worth
the waiting

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Monday, March 19, 2018

~Moon Burn~

I was
taught to
show my
feelings, the
honey dreanched
facets of emotion

but I
have to
find a
line. before
I become
too transparent

I've had
my share
of doubts
waited out
the blur of
storm clouds
violent illusions
it's just
another bruise
don't give
yourself away
too easily
make them
work

what is
their color
sweet glow
I miss
the slow frequency
of your
moon burn 
never out
of season
always constant

the light
is inviting
gone is
the pale
hand of
winter

I want to
be visible
again
to find
a reason
for me

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Unchain~

change your
altitude you'll feel
so much
better
I'm looking
forward to
having an
adventure of
my own
design

eternal echo
of the
first time
grasping at
the soul
the illusion
of perfection

I wish
we could take
some time
love is
weak, love
is helpless
because all
I really
want, it
turns out
is you
in my
arm's

unchain your
chains, slick
talk and
real heartbeats
here we
stand still

even oceans
obey, it
comes and
goes
in waves

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Decipering~

you can't
fight the
tears if
they won't
come

afraid of
heights finding
out midair
unexpected and
surprising, drifting
closer gravitating

lightening time
I have a
feeling I'll
go far

give me
directions I'll
get lost
in a
panorama view
with no
destination
I don't
have to
exist outside
this space

I was
told
that we spend
too much time
deciphering love
anything worth
doing is
more then
a violent illusion

avert your
eyes god
forbid, we
meet eyes
brush shoulders
because there
are no
benches
to rest

wearing the
cloths of
the souls
that we
chose trying
to be sincere

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Honey rose~

make me
think
make me feel
like a sunset

we are
separated by
a cemetery
of sentimentality
and sensibility

visible again
the way
the light
shines through
beautifully inviting

read between
my lines
honey rose
petals shine
out of the mist


only yesterday
we watched
time go
by, a
certain surrendering
maybe today
we'll put
the past away
folded into
sunlit corners
where dust
floats glittering
in the
lazy air
baby's breath
angel hair

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

Saturday, March 17, 2018

~Unexpected~

exquisite dryness
releasing juices
all from
a onion
from underneath
yellow paper
skin

focus consciousness
woven with
fate, cut
the thread
set thing's
in motion

whimsy is
seductive
especially to
young minds

enabled to
see your
shape, humbles
my heart
when you
say goodbye

under the
silver moon
maybe you were
right
maybe I
was lonely
alone with
stardust and memories

you'll never
know if
you don't
know by
now

my sunlight
and my moonlight
you are
in unexpected
ways

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Satilite~

a white
star fires
falling in
suspended motion
giving itself
to dark
trees and
cold empty

frozen in
your place
don't let
the moment
slip away

your looking for
answers but
they're not
looking for
you

it doesn't
make narrative
sense flickering
past edges
of distant
memory deja-vu

it's only
pieces of
the night
that give
you comfort
you can touch
suspended cold

slow trance
airy water
drops forever

no matter
how distant
it's alive
a trembling
frequency
somewhere out
there out
of sight

words that
would melt
your heart
hanging like
a wall of
stars

you are
my statilite
that's when
you can
hold me
come back
to my outstretched
arm's

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

~Unquantifyable~

all the
secrets of
my ocean
can be held
in one
drop of
water

everywhere, nowhere,
but mostly everywhere,
midnight's creeping
 in with
it's long
shadows and murmurs

just thinking
of all the
reasons not
to jump
but what about
the reasons
to jump?

intoxicated, someday
we'll get
to live
our lives out loud

a moment
of truth
in fear
and everyday lies
stuck in
your head
like an
old song
stuck on
repeat
gets under
your skin

suspended in
place, love
is unqauntifyable
 he electricity
unseen between
when our
eyes meet
unspoken headlock

~Sarah Mahina Calbello

Friday, March 16, 2018

~Imagination~

~To Jill and her plums

who is
your hatter?
because mine
went mad
if I
didn't have
to jam
a strawberry
I would have
gone with
you

the world
offers itself
to imagination
and a
cup of
sunlit tea

sometimes you
have to
wreak it
in order
to save it

everyone knows
that the
future tastes
like a
freshly picked
apple pungent
plums flower
and fall
cold and full
on the
ground

everyone is
dealing with
something you
just have
to love
people for
who they
are and hope
they love
you back

there is
nothing stronger
then a
normal person
removed from
fake reality

~Sarah Mahina Calvello

Thursday, March 15, 2018

~Pinnacle~

I'm torn
but aso
so warm
changes can
be good
too erosion
doesn't happen
in an instant

it's great
that were
both standing
on a
pinnacle of
something

all we
can do
is try
to surpass the
winding roads

observation is
the backbone
of everything

under the
milky twilight
spinning my
wheels but
sometimes even
your dreams
are unexpected

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Embrace~

feel it
inside of
your bones
no more sinking
heart s whispered
and folding into
the corners
of cushions

your not
what you
were so
what are
you waiting for?

it's all
in a
new day
time to
embrace let
the colors
bleed into
the traces
of grace
I left
for you
the footsteps
that leave
a breathing hue

breathe in
and out
just let
it out
don't go
looking for
easy answers

just more
broken souls
that used
to shine

there's a
certain order
and beauty
orbits and patterns
that's been
here before

stars that
still hold
wide eyed
wonder
truth and fear

the course
I chart
is set in motion
even though
I don't see
it yet

the great
twilight checkered
failures turn
into victories
self-exposed
and accepting

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~

~Apple~

your somewhere
and nowhere
at the same
time

let it go
it's actually
very brave
what were
doing trying
to figure it
all out
again

life moves
pretty fast
if you
don't slow
down once
in awhile
miss it

amid the
many colors
burnt and worn
scattered leaves
that fall
like over ripe
fruit
apple is
the color
of success

everything around
us is
the past
even the
sunlight is
five minutes old
the space
between
a breath

ignite  something
in me
show me
the map
of what I'm
meant to do

no time
for distractions
I knew
where to
look

you know
sometimes looking
as far
away as
we can
is just
a way to
ignore what's
in front
of us

so we
just see
the brightest star
there is
still
wonder

~Sarah Mahina Calvello~