Loon

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1. darlingj says:

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   June 9, 2009 at 11:14 pm

   I’m certainly a lunatic by all definitions. Proud of it.

   A ‘Moon Child’ by birth (Cancer).

   Other aspects would require investigation.

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2. wordreet says:

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   January 1, 2009 at 6:08 pm

   Sorry to be reviving an old word, but I’m having fun so there!
   I often wondered about the ‘Loon’ as a name for a bird, but now realize that it’s merely an American name for what we in the UK call a ‘diver’. Which is a type of waterfowl rather than a single species.

   Anyway jcnick mentioned folks believing that cats and dogs might be affected by the moon. And this reminded me of a super poem.

   The Cat and the Moon

   The cat went here and there
   And the moon spun round like a top,
   And the nearest kin of the moon,
   The creeping cat, looked up.
   Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
   For, wander and wail as he would,
   The pure cold light in the sky
   Troubled his animal blood.
   Minnaloushe runs in the grass
   Lifting his delicate feet.
   Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
   When two close kindred meet,
   What better than call a dance?
   Maybe the moon may learn,
   Tired of that courtly fashion,
   A new dance turn.
   Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
   From moonlit place to place,
   The sacred moon overhead
   Has taken a new phase.
   Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
   Will pass from change to change,
   And that from round to crescent,
   From crescent to round they range?
   Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
   Alone, important and wise,
   And lifts to the changing moon
   His changing eyes.

   – William Butler Yeats

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3. dvx216 says:

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   October 30, 2008 at 5:59 pm

   The moon effects the tides but since we are a large percent water in are body I would guess we also are effected be the moon

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4. Chemikal says:

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   October 27, 2008 at 1:49 pm

   I got it the 1st time, but I enjoyed listening to the recap. explanation too

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