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Note:'spaces' is an imagism form .It has a title and three line ,the middle being blank and left to the READERS imagination. I labelled it 'spaces' as the middle line is an unsaid poignant pause or image. Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space Turnbull called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ .

 

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