Welcome to Four Lines! I have a goal I would like to write at least four lines of poetry or a haiku every day for the rest of my life. I'm excited about this challenge! Also, along with my daily poem, I will be reading at least four lines of another author's poetry. I'll try to include that here also. So I'm thinking - how difficult can it be to read and then write one poem a day? We will see! - Claudia
All poems on this blog, unless noted, are written by Claudia Callaghan.
© 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Claudia Callaghan
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

My sister horse I cannot break. 
Tame is her camouflage 
for a force of nature waking.
She is wind around my house.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

He flies above me,
in his loaded airplane
with a loaned vision from someone else,
not me, not me at all.
He cannot shoot me anymore,
demand I sacrifice myself,
or throw my poems and flowers,
my songs and dreams into fire,
his fire...

love cannot burn.

How can one from afar examine,
know a human heart?
I sing everywhere
mending my childhood wounds.
You, with false assumptions,
are not in the sky.
You are in your made up world
and know nothing of me.



Tuesday, November 27, 2012

On Line One

Her record spins,
head to tale,
head to tale,
the same.
Real or a hallucination,
it is memorized and wept well -
deep as a dream drawn,
drunk again in telling.
I try to be the still,
small voice and, if allowed,
stop the turning,
lifting the needle for one sweet, 
spacious moment.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Air is approaching
as I look for something
beautiful to give to you.
Air is beautiful.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Four minutes to start and finish
four lines.  Two. Thinking about -
one - voting for Obama tomorrow
 and his win as I start my new job!

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Singing songs by Loreena McKennitt,
Blackbird by the Beatles, Blue by me,
Bach's Prelude in C Major like Bobbie McFerrin
suggested. I am golden and in love.