I recently came across a little book, How to eat a Poem: A Smorgasbord of Tasty and Delicious Poems for Young Readers, edited by the American Poetry & Literacy Project and The Academy of American Poets. The books contains a seasonal Haiku poems, a perfect way to mark the Autumn Equinox.
Autumn
Arakida Moritake
A colorful falling leaf
drifts to a branch–
No, a butterfly!
Winter
Takarai Kikaku
The cold moon shines
on the matting on the floor,
thin shadows of the pines.
Spring
Matsuo Basho
The temple bell stops;
but the ringing echoes
from out of the blossoms.
Summer
Kawabata Bosha
Fireflies at nightfall—
a chair of bright beads
along the water’s edge.