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Spaces is a three line verse...the middle line is the space is filled by the readers imagination

Winter Sports a Spaces Form

WINTER SPORTS

Snow falls




The hills are alive

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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