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Strawberry Moon [1]

Poetry [2]
6.10.14

Each month a full moon rises in the sky, and each of these moons has a special name. In June the full moon is known as the Full Strawberry Moon, a name given to it by the Algonquin tribes, to whom it signaled the time to gather the ripening fruit. In Europe, where the strawberry is not a native fruit, this moon is known as the Full Rose Moon. This week, try writing a short poem of rhyming couplets about this month's full moon. For inspiration, read Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Waning Moon." [3]


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/strawberry_moon [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174381