Hunger Moon and Hunger

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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

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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
two silhouettes
holding hands

Eugenio Mark
http://www.tinywords.com/haiku/2004/02/13/?comments=all

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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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