A VERBLESS VERSE hiku

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Note: Many older Japanese haiku poets wrote haiku without verbs,adverbs,adjectives ,hence my title today.

Of course they wrote in Japanese so such a theory does not always easily cross/transfer linguistic barriers.

evening perfume a flower blossom primrose memory of you HIKU is the English language version(including translations)with similar economy of words without "telling all" thereby to ' show ' (conforming to the key to true imagist poetry),&to avoid 'as'&'to' & the use of past tense verbs (often without verbs,adverbs,adjectives )A verse freed from syllabic constraint within its triplicity of format& inherently enigmatic & still with a caesura and surprise ending.

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