Compendium of Spaces

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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 this 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’ .

spaces-SEPTEMBER I
empty slides in the park



chatter fills the school bus

spaces- SNUFFED OUT
Bad light stops play




The muscians retire


Note: Haydn's Farewell Symphony

spaces-CATARACT
The mist lifts slowly



A new vista is unveiled

spaces-CATCH-22
A window pane shatters



Nobody makes a home run



SPACES 2
HISPANIC REVERBERATIONS





Blue-bells

SPACES 1
SHADY LADIES





Hostas

spaces- REFRACTION
a rainbow on high



liquid to light

spaces-THEOPHANY
This is my beloved son


Hear Him?

spaces-PECKING ORDER
Sparrow on the bird table


the hawk has a feast

An Abstract spaces poem
Close your eyes


What did you see?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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Date: 6/24/2023 1:01:00 PM
Whoa. This is really interesting idea. I like it a lot. I wish that the "spaces-" part had been consistent throughout the whole poem though. It would be nice to have something, which stays the same, to hold on to as we (the reader) try to find our way through these abstract spaces.
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