Blue Moon

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Blue Moon ブルー・ムーン

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"Full moon at Arakawa River" 荒川の月
川瀬 巴水 - Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) - 1929

blue moon - a full moon that rises twice in one month
sometimes the days of the month are less than the cycle of the moon, which is 29.5 days. This can cause the moon to rise twice in one month, near the first and the last days of the same month. It is said that blue moons happen every 33 months or about every 3 years. This relatively rare occurrence has spawned the saying "once in a blue moon".
source : www.moonconnection.com


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A blue moon is the appearance of
the third full moon in a season with four full moons.
The term has also mistakenly been used to refer to the second full moon in a month.
Most years have twelve full moons that occur approximately monthly.

The most literal meaning of blue moon is when the moon (not necessarily a full moon) appears to a casual observer to be unusually bluish, which is a rare event.
The effect can be caused by smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere,...


Using the Maine Farmers' Almanac definition of blue moon
(meaning the third full moon in a season of four full moons), blue moons occur
November 21, 2010
August 21, 2013
May 21, 2016
May 18, 2019

Two full moons in one month:
2009: December 2, December 31 (partial lunar eclipse visible in some parts of the world), only in time zones west of UTC+05.
2010: January 1 (partial lunar eclipse), January 30, only in time zones east of UTC+04:30.
2010: March 1, March 30, only in time zones east of UTC+07.
2012: August 2, August 31, only in time zones west of UTC+10.
2012: September 1, September 30, only in time zones east of UTC+10:30.
2015: July 2, July 31
2018: January 2, January 31
2018: March 2, March 31
2020: October 1, October 31
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Moon Viewing
Seattle Japanese Garden



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Ella Fitzgerald - Blue Moon
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a blue moon
on New Year's Eve --
I'll make a resolution

JT
January 2010


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- - - - - August 31, September 01 2012

Blue Moon Party


Blue Moon Party -
even our cocktail
fits the situation




Blue moon cocktails
are a fun, frozen martini featuring blue curaçao, vanilla syrup ,
and fresh orange juice. . .
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moon of autumn -
radiating blue
your eyes

Alex Serban, Romania





blue moon
I hatch a dimple
on her left chin

Dr. Kumarendra Mallick, India






Blue Moon last night -- the view from our lawn.

Origa Origa Kankodori Press, FB



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- Shared by Joys of Japan, August 2012 -




you always remember
your first love
Blue Moon

Ed Bremson, USA

RIP Neil Armstrong
photo by Veronika Zora Novak







Rosie Mann, India

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blue moon
above the edge of
a black forest


blue moon –
the crickets sing
just as yesterday

Tomislav Maretic, Croatia



blue moon...
floating in the river,
just near the bank

breaking
the clamor of our gang –
hello to Blue Moon!

Emil Bobinac, Croatia





Almost autumn
My heart is pounding wild
Looking at the Blue Moon

Kristjaan Panneman, Holland



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Kayo Mizutani, Japan



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blue moon...
passing time on a
summer stem

Louis Osofsky, USA








Blue Moon
Cool breeze returns to the woods
The Bamboo shivers

Res John Burman, USA


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blue moon --
in my sleep once more
the lost dream

blue moon--
I saw you last night
floating in her eyes

Arvinder Kaur, India





blue moon night –
in yellow moonlight the cricket
sings its usual song

Johannes Manjrekar, India




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blue moon
somewhere a turtle
will lay her eggs

This is the blue moon of 2012
as it appeared above our street last night! :)

Ella Wagemakers, Holland





all the males
doing the laundry ---
blue moon

Bee Jay, Australia


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Shared by Zaya Nergui, Mongolia



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summer's end ~
cloud-wisps veil its face
this blue moon

Elaine Andre, USA



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blue moon
I lost you once again
in my dreams

Christine L. Villa, USA



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blue moon
merging into a puddle
tadpole's tail

Kathy Uyen Nguyen, USA



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Gillena Cox, Trinidad and Tobago



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blue moon
beckoning warm winds
to linger

Angelo B. Ancheta, Philippines



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blue moon night -
there must be something
behind these rainclouds

Gabi Greve
August 2012, Japan





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kigo for all seasons



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Higgs boson

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Higgs boson

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The Higgs boson or Higgs particle
is a proposed elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics.
The Higgs boson's existence would have profound importance in particle physics because it would prove the existence of the hypothetical Higgs field — the simplest of several proposed mechanisms for the breaking of electroweak symmetry, and the means by which elementary particles acquire mass.



Discovered
Tentatively announced July 4, 2012,
by the ATLAS and CMS teams at the Large Hadron Collider.

On 4 July 2012, the CMS and the ATLAS experimental teams at the Large Hadron Collider independently announced that they each confirmed the formal discovery of a previously unknown boson of mass between 125–127 GeV/c2, whose behaviour so far has been "consistent with" a Higgs boson.

Proof of the Higgs field (by observing the associated particle), and evidence of its properties, is likely to greatly affect human understanding of the universe, validate the final unconfirmed part of the Standard Model as essentially correct, indicate which of several current particle physics theories are more likely correct, and open up "new" physics beyond current theories.
If the Higgs boson were shown not to exist, other alternative sources for the Higgs mechanism would need to be considered.
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higgs boson
after the breakthrough
I stretch arms and legs

A major breakthrough, tears came from the eyes of Peter Higgs the great scientist that predicted its existence 40 years ago in a quantum mechanics paper! Now the so called Standard Model has been completed and quantum physics can move on to other issues with a solid basis.
I would have loved to be part of the LHC crew.
The ku is my omage to all of them and especially to Peter Higgs.

The Higgs Boson is also called the particle of God,
because is the one responsible that the universe has substance, mass.
Withouth it there would be nothing solid etc.

- Shared by Carlos Fleitas -
Joys of Japan, 2012



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particles of god ...
pondering the imprints
of my actions


Das Teilchen, das die Welt zusammenhält

Granny nags
Food holds all together! - No chance
for the boson news


Heike Gewi
Yemen


Das Higgs-Boson, das viel beschworene Gottesteilchen, ist gefunden - das steht so gut wie fest. Bestätigt es die bisherige Theorie vom Aufbau unserer Welt? Forscher schüren bereits die Hoffnung auf eine neue Physik, die sogar die rätselhafte Dunkle Materie erklären könnte.
source : www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft




beginning
... the whole world
in a particle

Ella Wagemakers
(Kigo Hotline)


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CERN Announces Discovery of Higgs-like Particle

The Higgs haiku:

Now we want you to wax eloquent on the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Give us your best haiku. That’s three lines — five syllables in the first, seven in the second, and five in the third — and we’ll read our favorites on air.

Way back When our Higgs
Bosons trapped just enough light
To make us Matter
sabinwiki


The Higgs Boson asks:
"Who is this 'god' and what's it
Got to do with me?"
Amy Milligan


Submit your Higgs haiku here :
source : cern-higgs-boson


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Face faces (kao)

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Face faces (kao)

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face - 顔　kao, 面　tsura


The face is a central sense organ complex, normally on the ventral surface of the head for animals that have one. It can, depending on the definition in the human case, include the hair, forehead, eyebrow, eyelashes, eyes, nose, ears, cheeks, mouth, lips, philtrum, temple, teeth, skin, and chin.



The face has uses of expression, appearance, and identity amongst others. It also has different senses like olfaction, taste, hearing, and vision.
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. kao aru 顔荒る rough, dry face skin .
humanity kigo for all winter


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"The face of God", for a good Christian,
might evoke the image of the old man with a white beard.
Translating this "kami no kao" is really difficult.


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. Morning-Glory (asagao 朝顔) .
lit. "morning face"
and
"Night Face", yorugao 夜顔 giant moonflower
and
yuugao 夕顔 "evening face" bottel gourd
and
hirugao 　昼顔 bindweed


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顔に似ぬ発句も出でよ初桜
kao ni ninu hokku mo ideyo hatsu zakura

I will write hokku
that do not resemble my face -
first cherry blossoms

. Matsuo Basho and Hokku .
元禄７年 - 1694, Autumn
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なほ見たし花に明けゆく神の顔
nao mitashi hana ni ake yuku kami no kao

all the more i wish to see
in those blossoms at dawn
the face of god
Tr. Makoto Ueda


all the more i wish to see
in those blossoms at dawn
the face of this god

This god, he is the most ugly deity of Japan! Hitokotonushi!
. Hitokotonushi 一言主 God of One Word .
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冬瓜やたがひに変る顔の形
toogan ya tagai ni kawaru kao no nari

this wax gourd -
how great the changes
of our faces

元禄7年, 1694
written at Iga, Ueno, where he met an old woman, whom he had known in his youth. Now both had old, wrinkeld faces.





. toogan (冬瓜 white gourd-melon; a wax gourd .
lit. "winter melon"
Benincasa hispida


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髪生えて容顔青し五月雨　
kami haete yoogan aoshi satsuki ame

my hair has grown
my face is pale -
samidare rain
Tr. Gabi Greve

Written in 貞亨4年, Basho age 44

Basho is looking in the mirror and sees his pale face.
It reflects his poverty and the mood of the long rainy season.


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山吹の露菜の花のかこち顔なるや
. yamabuki no tsuyu na no hana no kakochigao naru ya .
the rapeseed flowers make a face of envy !


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Kobayashi Issa

梟も面癖直せ春の雨
fukuroo mo tsuraguse naose haru no ame

cheer up, owl!
the spring rain
is falling
Tr. David Lanoue


I think the point here is fukuro moo MO ...

you too, owl,
change your facial expression -
rain in spring

One can hear the wife of the author talking ...


Kaneko Tohta explains,
Issa wrote this haiku because his wife nagged him to cheer up, but it is in fact an expression of his love for the wife.
He sees Issa as an arabonpu 荒凡夫 , a wild but normal man, who lived freely with the earth and on the earth.


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浅ましと鰒や見らん人の顔
asamashi to fugu ya miruran hito no kao

looking shameful
to the pufferfish...
people's faces
Tr. David Lanoue




. Blowfish (fugu, 河豚 ) .

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吉日の御顔也けり雛達
kichijitsu no o-kao nari keri hiina-tachi

wearing their lucky day
faces...
the dolls
Tr. Chris Drake

This hokku is from the 3rd month (April) of 1824.
Festival dolls have been set up and displayed on a table or stand for a week or perhaps two weeks before the actual Doll Festival on 3/3, which has now finally come. "Lucky day" can also be "special day" or "auspicious day," but here it probably refers to the day of the festival on 3/3.
Most of the sitting dolls are miniature aristocrats (including the emperor) who wear formal clothes and have stiff faces, so Issa calls them o-kao, honorable faces. Their formal expressions and clothes earlier seem to have looked out of place to Issa, but now, on 3/3, the expressions and robes of the dolls match the formality of the 3/3 festival, and for one day the dolls are lucky: they seem to be part of the real world and belong exactly where they are.

Chris Drake



. Hina Doll Festival (hina matsuri 雛祭り) .



欲面へ浴せかけたる桜哉
yoku tsura e abise-kaketaru sakura kana
yoku-zura e abisekaketaru sakura kana

the cherry tree
showers its blossoms
onto greedy faces
Tr. Chris Drake

This wryly humorous spring hokku was found among Issa's writings after his death. As so often, Issa seems to be writing from the tree's point of view. Some blossom viewers have been smitten with one beautiful tree and have been staring at it greedily for some time. Their eyes just can't get enough of it, yet their fixated faces show they fear the blossoms will soon fall. They're obviously looking at what they want to see, not the reality of the blossoms, which are changing moment by moment. The tree seems to pity the blossom-viewers, since their desire to stop time and possess unchanging beauty is completely unrealistic. Perhaps out of compassion, or perhaps with the collaboration of the wind, the tree gently yet firmly shows the viewers that cherry blossoms are just like everything else in the world, only more so.

Flowers can also be the greedy or desirous ones, as in this early autumn hokku by Issa from 1815:

yoku-zura no asagao tanto sakinikeri

greedy-faced
morning glories bloom
all over the place

Issa plays on the fact that asagao, morning glory, literally means "morning face." The vivid colors of the morning glories seem to display their deep desire to bloom, and their greed to flourish has resulted in a riotous display of pure vegetative desire.

Chris Drake


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