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Short Turnbull Poems

Short Turnbull Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Turnbull by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Turnbull by length and keyword.


Premium Member Monoku Ekphrasis 47
Gael Turnbull-
                  imagination  fills the space...

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Categories: turnbull, poetry, space,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Clerihew Turnbull
US born John Turnbull
a portraitist so successful
The first graduate painter of Harvard
but perhaps tried a little too hard...

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Categories: turnbull, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Spaces 1
SHADY LADIES





Hostas


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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Categories: turnbull, imagination,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Spaces-Cataract
The mist lifts slowly



A new vista is unveiled

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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Categories: turnbull, health, nature,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member 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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Categories: turnbull, sports,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Spaces-September I
empty slides in the park



chatter fills the school bus

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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Categories: turnbull, seasons,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member INNOVATIVE poetry forms
minimalist words
  from Saroyran
visuality
 typed
typography
 from Riddell
rings
a concrete
           bell

Turnbull
  the most
   intuitive
as the reader
must
  participate
the 'unsaid'
space
the
 imaginative
bait
&cause
 of a
poignant
  thought pause



My 'Turnbull 'spaces example 

PECKING ORDER

Sparrow on the bird table


the hawk has a feast...

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Categories: turnbull, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member 2023 year of the cataract FOR ME
*Spaces-Cataract

The mist lifts slowly



A new vista is unveiled

*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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Categories: turnbull, imagery, word play,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member SPACES experimental tritich
CATARACT OP

The mist lifts slowly

           ??

A new vista is unveiled

*Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a three line poem with a larger than usual blank space( ??)for 2nd 'line'.
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’ . Thus the reader supplies his own imagination thereto....

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Categories: turnbull, imagery, imagination, poetry,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member ANOTHER EXPERIENTAL SPACE VERSE
SEPTEMBER

empty swings in her heart

               ??
a full school bus departs

Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a three line poem with a larger than usual blank space( ??)for 2nd 'line'.
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’ . Thus the reader supplies his own imagination thereto....

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Categories: turnbull, imagery, imagination, poetry,
Form: Imagism

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