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Best Autumnal Equinox Poems

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

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Categories: autumnal equinox, autumn, nature, seasons, sun,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member The Autumnal Equinox
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...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waterfall of Shadows
I watch
as sun slides down in the sky.
The shadows increase in length,
a dark waterfall descending 
upon the sandy beach.
Slowly I inhale and exhale,
savoring the fresh...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, eve,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Haiku
day and night equal
the autumnal equinox ~
autumn now begins
          
squirrels gather nuts
store food for the coming...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, animal, autumn, farm, halloween,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member An Autumn Walk
come . . .  take my hand and we will walk
deep into a Canadian autumn woodland
where it is crisp and cool-  vast and...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, autumn,
Form: Free verse



Signs of Autumn
Signs of Autumn

Autumnal equinox,
Unpredictable weather,
Turning leaves,
Unique colors,
Magnificent sights of,
Nature’s beauty!

Written By: Sarita Milliner © 11/9/16...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, appreciation, autumn, beauty, environment,
Form: Acrostic
Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol-Contest
Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol

The autumnal equinox period 
Spells time for worship, pilgrimages
Rituals and a pandemonium
Of festivities and gay hyperactivities

The elephant godhead idol
Over decked, anointed
With all...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, allusion, death, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Cycle of Seasons -Autumn
autumnal equinox
turning leaves, migrating birds
autumn morning chill

leaf peeping pastime 
harvest cornucopia 
nighttime lingers

fall’s first killing frost
season of melancholy
cold of winter near



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October 23, 2019
F T I...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: autumnal equinox, autumn, bird, nature, tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Summer's End Denial
Summer defeatists, it is not done,
Until there is equal dark & sun.
The Autumnal Equinox, to be specific:
Sept. 22, 1:02 pm Pacific....

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Categories: autumnal equinox, autumn, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 'an Autumn Walk'

come . . .  take my hand and we will walk
deep into a Canadian autumn woodland
where it is crisp and cool-  vast and...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heaven Is the Fifth Season- My Spokenword-
"This be a many seasons,
More than just four;
There is another one...
So!
Heaven is the 5th season
Lo! This the 5th seasons
Past winters reasons
A bliss of ever so...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, analogy, appreciation, encouraging, environment,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Autumn
Feeling inside soul of time and weather change
Colder weather arriving and autumn harvest,
Full natural growth and the autumnal equinox glows
Wonderful time for a football game,...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, autumn, earth, farm, football,
Form: Rhyme
Untitled Sonnet
August winds down midmonth, Autumn nudges
Daylight dwindles, there's a nip in the air.
Those who love the sultry summer begrudge
Others' sheer delight in Autumn's fanfare.

This season...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, august, autumn, beauty, color,
Form: Sonnet
October Eve
I fell in love one cold lonely October eve,
Autumnal equinox as the moon did thieve…
I fell to my knees below the October sky,
Full of daunting...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, eve, love, october,
Form: Rhyme
The Spirits of Sheol
Risen from times tomb these colours in her eyes..
An autumnal equinox their love, of which she finds ?
Pan the forest a paragon paradigms; as such...

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Categories: autumnal equinox, angel, art, autumn,
Form: I do not know?

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