OULIPO Poetry Stretch

Red
leaf
turns
yellow,
leaving
branches
forlornly
bewildered.
Sacramental,
transforming,
autumn equinox.
Sanctification.

-----Andromeda Jazmon

Miss Rumphius has given us another challenging poetry stretch this week. She tells us about OULIPO, a group of mostly French writers and mathematicians creating new forms of poetry. The above poem is my first attempt at a Snowball poem, where each line is one letter longer than the previous one. Trisha gives two other examples of mathematical or pattern based poetry forms. Go try one for yourself!