The full moon of June will be at its fullest on Friday, June 5th at 3:12pm, but if the weather permits, we will witness its splendor on Thursday and Friday nights. This particular full moon is called a Full Strawberry Moon because it signaled to the Algonquin tribes in eastern North America that it was time to gather wild strawberries.
Wild Strawberries by Robert Graves
Strawberries that in gardens grow
Are plump and juicy fine,
But sweeter far as wise men know
Spring from the woodland vine.
No need for bowl or silver spoon,
Sugar or spice or cream,
Has the wild berry plucked in June
Beside the trickling stream.
One such to melt at the tongue's root,
Confounding taste with scent,
Beats a full peck of garden fruit:
Which points my argument.
May sudden justice overtake
And snap the forward pen,
That old and palsied poets shake
Against the minds of men.
Blasphemers trusting to hold caught
In far-flung webs of ink,
The utmost ends of human thought
Till nothing's left to think.
But may the gift of heavenly peace
And glory for all time
Keep the boy Tom who tending geese
First made the nursery rhyme.
Are plump and juicy fine,
But sweeter far as wise men know
Spring from the woodland vine.
No need for bowl or silver spoon,
Sugar or spice or cream,
Has the wild berry plucked in June
Beside the trickling stream.
One such to melt at the tongue's root,
Confounding taste with scent,
Beats a full peck of garden fruit:
Which points my argument.
May sudden justice overtake
And snap the forward pen,
That old and palsied poets shake
Against the minds of men.
Blasphemers trusting to hold caught
In far-flung webs of ink,
The utmost ends of human thought
Till nothing's left to think.
But may the gift of heavenly peace
And glory for all time
Keep the boy Tom who tending geese
First made the nursery rhyme.
So here at Merry Mount, this old, would be poet, will not have wild strawberries, but he will turn to the patch of “tamed” ones.
We hope that the strawberry moon will hasten the ripening process so that, soon, a cone of strawberry ice cream can perhaps be enjoyed.
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| the strawberry patch at Merry Mount |
We hope that the strawberry moon will hasten the ripening process so that, soon, a cone of strawberry ice cream can perhaps be enjoyed.
The strawberry moon of June
Lights up the night and
soon
Red berries plump and sweet
Will ripen for us to eat.
CPW
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