Poem: Hunter's Moon

Hunter's Moon

Hunter's Moon 2022, Vancouver

Native Americans call October's
Full Moon "Hunter's Moon" since
farmers prepare for winter time.

Dakotas call it Drying Rice Moon,
Cree tribes call it Migrating Moon,
and Hopis call it the Long Hair Moon.

Greek Moon Virgin Goddess of the Hunt
is Artemis, shown with her bow & arrow,
twin of Apollo, daughter of Zeus & Leto.

Earliest paintings of hunting is
in the Lascaux Caves of France
over 17,000 years old.

Notables with "Hunt" in their names—
SF Giants All-Star Hunter Pence and
Nobel Biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan.

Joseph Haydn's Symphony 73 "The Hunt"
has hunting horn calls in the final fourth
movement— La chasse Presto.

Fox hunting is a popular British sport
with beagles sniffing out their prey
as shown in the Oscar movie Tom Jones.

Sagittarius is Latin for Archer—
9th Zodiac sign between Scorpio & Capricorn
shown as a centaur with bow shooting arrow.

Paul de Kruif's classic Microbe Hunters (1926)
focusing on Leeuwenhoek, Robert Koch,
Louis Pasteur, Walter Reed, and Paul Ehrlich.

Modern research leads us to the hunt
of the God Particle (Higgs Boson),
and hunt for Extraterrestials (SETI).

With Hubble & James Webb Telescopes,
astronomers peer through the universe
hunting for Exoplanets similar to our Earth.

— Peter Y. Chou
Mountain View, 10-9-2022