So beware! If we don't take care of our planet, Satan will take it over. The signs are already there.

I saw this tree and it reminded me of a deformed hand reaching out of the ground to grasp it. That became the inspiration for this poem. So it is an ekphrastic poem. It will also become one of my Animated Stills.

So this poem is an Ekphrastic Octogram/Animated Still.
Ekphrastic is a poem that is written based on the attached image. So, the image came first and was the inspiration.
The Octogram is a style of poetry invented by Fanstorian Sally Yocom (S.Yocom). It consists of two stanzas of eight lines each, with a very specific syllable count and rhyme scheme.
Syllable count is 84848884, repeat on second stanza.
Rhyme scheme: aBabccbB ababddbB, where B repeats same text.
No more than 16 lines.
The tempo is tetrameter on the 8 count line, and dimeter on the 4 count line, but not necessarily iambic.
Animated Stills are poems where inanimate objects take on human, animal, or spirit forms, traits, or articles. They are derived from Photographs I have taken, that have moved me to write a poem associated with it.

This photograph was taken by the author himself on January 30, 2012.

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