Thanks everyone. Wonderful that one little word can generate such discussion. Mainly, I was thinking of it as adjective for blackbirds, that they’re moving quickly.
Otherwise, yeah, trying for that 575…
Doug
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 4:05 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Pat, I looked that word up as well and hadn't remembered the flames in the highest heavens of ancient cosmologies. Fleet evoked both a fast escape and all the cruise liners from all the brands. Did you count syllables--the perfect traditional 5-7-5 haiku achieved in a condensed 11 words. For no particular reason I've rarely attempted haikus, but now I'm contemplating a three word version. Barry
>
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 17:59:14 +0100, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Doug had to look up (as a simple peasant ) empyrean! bet I was the only one!
>>
>> should that be flee before the plague or is that some ref to ships for
>> this poor old confused head
>>
>> On 01/04/2020 17:26, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>> fleet before the plague
>>> the blackbird soars up toward
>>> the empyrean
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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