Super Moon Full Moon July 2022

The July Supermoon got some great publicity around the globe, including beautiful photographs published by the Washington Post: Scenes of the Full Moon/Supermoon around the World. Extraordinary.

This Toronto shot is from Curiociti. 

Googling for poems about the full moon in Toronto, I came across this gem of a site, The Toronto Poetry Map, which originated in a collaboration between the library and the city's fourth Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke. What a great idea! But unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have been functioning since June 2022 and now. Hope it gets fixed.

Here is a poem from UofT, Canadian Poetry Online

LIVE WITH ME ON EARTH UNDER THE INVISIBLE DAYLIGHT MOON

Milton Acorn
From:   Dig Up My Heart: Selected Poems 1952-83. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983. p.98.

Live with me on Earth among red berries and the bluebirds
And leafy young twigs whispering
Within such little spaces, between such floors of green, such
     figures in the clouds
That two of us could fill our lives with delicate wanting:

Where stars past the spruce copse mingle with fireflies
Or the dayscape flings a thousand tones of light back at the
     sun—
Be any one of the colours of an Earth lover;
Walk with me and sometimes cover your shadow with mine.

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Salmon Moon, Raspberry Moon, Buck Moon, Thunder Moon
was full in Toronto Jul 13, 2022 at 2:37 pm