Best Autumnal Equinox Poems

Northern hemisphere
Farewell to long days of light
Darkness, equinox
Sun decrees our destiny
Nature yawns and people sigh....

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The Autumnal Equinox
By Franklin Price
9/21/2015

The Autumnal Equinox
Is but two days away
The  traveling Sun is half-way South
Will not be there to stay

The leaves on trees are changing
Soon most of them will fall
Putting hosts in hibernation
It's their heed to nature's call

Winter views will soon appear
Such wonders...

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Autumnal equinox 2020 - Tuesday, September 22
(at 9:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time)

Empyrean découpage citadel
betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival
nine thirty one ante meridian
chariot of fire emblazons telltale signature,
one humble human doth 
bid summer and his squandered life adieu.

Already crisp cool mornings kiss mine cheek
refreshing air wafts thru...

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Autumnal equinox 2022 - 
Thursday, September 22
in Northern Hemisphere 9:03 PM
Eastern Daylight Time

Empyrean découpage citadel
betokens (bespeaks) autumnal arrival
nine oh three post meridian
chariot of fire emblazons telltale signature,
one humble human doth 
bid summer and his squandered life adieu.

Already crisp cool mornings 
sun kissed mine cheek
refreshing air...

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Early morning blue sunny skies askew
 turn to white grays on piggyback 
 once light breezes that blew 
 gentle in and out the trees comeback
now race wildly out to the sea renewed.

The colors with their brilliant reflective glow
 edge toward a harvest moon and...

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Exit the Autumnal Equinox 
David J Walker

Decades of decay line the lanes of
Seasonal death scenes descending to
Another frozen winter

The master of the Autumnal Equinox 
dispenses its mercies 
At best sparingly 

Transitions subtle 
Under the blended reflection 
of a cooler sun

Yellow as yarrow 
Rusted blood red...

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