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Hunger Moon
***** Location: North America
***** Season: Late Winter
***** Category: Heaven
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Explanation
For the North American Indians, the full moon of February was called this way. Bellies that fed well in other months fasted until the sun began to climb March Hill and the first returning scarlet tanager brought again the Great Spirit's promise of plenty. Have you ever looked up one February morning, my friend, to see in yonder pine the enormous red of the bull tanager that poses spectacularly against the greenest green to prove there will be summer once more?
It is a time of dormancy when activity is low-key.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0215/p22s02-hfjg.html
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Snow moon
is another name for the full moon in Feburary. All the food was covered with snow, hence the naming.
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The Moon's diameter is 3,474 kilometres (2,159 mi),[4] a little more than a quarter of that of the Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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On the following LINK you can fiddle around with the moon and its phases.
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/projects/data/MoonPhases/index.html
More about worldwide MOON festivals and names.
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/exeter/870/moonholidays.html
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Worldwide use
Hunger Moon, the Crow Moon, and the Hay and Fruit Moon
For many Native Americans, January's full moon was called the Wolf Moon, the time of year when wolves became particularly restless. In fact, each month's moon had a different name that was keyed to the natural happenings of that season. April was "The Frog Moon" when ponds warm up enough for the croaking to begin again; August was the Green Corn Moon when the cornfields ripened, getting ready for fall's harvest; December was the Long Night Moon, to mark the shortest days of the year.
More is here:
http://www.recess.ufl.edu/transcripts/2002/0108.shtml
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Things found on the way
.. .. .. .. MOON and its LINKS.. in our kigo Database
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HAIKU
half-asleep
half-awake
rising hunger moon
Bender, DW USA
http://us.z.webhosting.yahoo.com/gb/view?member=haiku_central
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subway graffiti
about someone’s mother —
Hunger Moon
Gallagher , D. Claire
http://www.theheronsnest.com/haiku/0512e0005/thn_issue.h2.html
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Hunger moon
over Manhattan's
emptiness
Kanematsu, Satoru, Japan
http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/020412.html
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Snowy owls prowl
under the full hunger moon
white feathers, gold eyes
Spring, Barbara, USA
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?AuthorID=4279
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hunger moon
watching
as I turn forty
la lune de la faim
me regarde dormir
j'ai quarante ans
Villeneuve, Jocelyne, Canada
http://pages.infinit.net/haiku/quebec.htm
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.. .. .. .. .. Snow Moon
snow moon
two silhouettes
holding hands
Eugenio Mark
http://www.tinywords.com/haiku/2004/02/13/?comments=all
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Related words
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HUNGER
topic for haiku
category : HUMANITY
HUNGER was the theme of the Shiki Kukai in August 2009
Here are some haiku about hunger in Kenya
watching the stars...
a hungry boy forgets
to eat his supper
~ Catherine Njeri Maina
wilted maize
rustling in the wind --
an emaciated child
~ Patrick Wafula
story telling time --
no one feels like telling one
on an empty stomach
~ Raymond Otieno
Kenya Haiku Forum
hunger-
people on the long queue
waiting relief food
Siboko Yamame
Kenya, August 2009
. WASHOKU
Famine in Japanese History
Famine in spring (shunkyuu)
kigo for late spring
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8/22/2005
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