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Saturday, August 31, 2024

A Moon by any other name --

Photo by Dominik Fischer on Unsplash 


What poet has not been lured in by the moon? A mystical luminary overhead. 

The moon is known by so many names - New Moon, Full Moon, Crescent Moon, Gibbous Moon, Quarter Moon, Blue Moon, Supermoon, Micromoon, Beaver Moon, Harvest Moon, Hunters Moon, Buck Moon, Pink Moon, Blood Moon, Black Moon, Wolf Moon, and Strawberry Moon, to name a few. There are a number of them that named for various mythological Goddesses of the moon. 


Also there are any number of geographical variation of some of their moon names listed above and many names given in non-english languages.


There, you have a whole host of writing prompts - write a poem using each of these moons in it.


#moonnames  #Moon 






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