Cthulhu Poems

Here's another entity to which verse ought to be posted in the interest of balance: Cthulhu; considered a Great Old One, within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, is a deity of great power who lies in a death-like slumber beneath the Pacific Ocean in his sunken city of R'lyeh. He remains a dominant presence in the eldrich dealings on our world. Lovecraft depicts it as a gigantic being worshipped by cultists, in the shape of a green octopus, dragon, and a caricature of human form - a thing which surely does the excesses of Revelations proud. The Cthulhu Mythos, where it exists with its fellow entities, is named after it. August Derleth, in 1937, proposed two groups of opposed cosmic entities of the Mythos: the Old or Ancient Ones, the Elder Gods, of cosmic good, and those of cosmic evil, bearing many names, and themselves of different groups, as if associated with the elements and yet transcending them: for there are the Water Beings, hidden in the depths; those of Air that are the primal lurkers beyond time; those of Earth, horrible animate survivors of distant eons.. 


How sweet the name of Cthulhu sounds
Thomas Thurman



How sweet the name of Cthulhu sounds

In raving mystics' screams!

It drives them mad, enflames their brains,

And troubles all their dreams.



It brings insanity and dread

Into the world of men,

This world which once seemed safe and sane

Shall not make sense again.



We gaze upon thy face more dread

Than any watchful dragon;

And sing the eternal hymn to thee,

Ia ia Cthulhu fhtagn. *


Cthulhu! my dead yet sleeping king,

Thy cults shall be restored,

Thy tomb shall rise to air again,

Just, r'lyeh, r'lyeh, Lord.



Weak is our twisted woodland dance

And cold our campfires cursed,

But when the stars shall rise aright,

We shall be eaten first.


Gods
Andrew Rueter


My god is love

Your god is God

I know it sounds odd

I wish to be cod

That swim through your veins

Until I go insane

Invading your mind

So I may know your kind



I have to tip my hat

When you say the world is flat

And I shift into a stiffer constitution

When you say you don't believe in evolution

My love is strictly fundamental

Our differences infinitesimal



I cannot deny

This temptation inside

This inflation of mine

I want to walk with you like Jesus

If in that moment you could freeze us

I'd believe forever

Through any endeavor

That two gods were merged

And true odds were purged

My life would be surged

Into perfection

By a reception



Love is a fabled fraud on the scene

Until I find a god in the machine

You heretically hide in between

Fields of green and wet dreams

Your smile takes me there

To realize we're no pair

So I become Cthulhu

In order to fool you

When you're the giant squid

And I'm just a kid

If I want to be caught in your tendrils

I'll have to work on my fundamentals



I dream of Athena

After you make Cupid look stupid

While holding a noose

With the power of Zeus

But I still want more

To hammer like Thor

Yet after all my plotting

I'm still frozen like Skadi



When I face a titanic task

I wear a panicked mask

Obtaining a reluctant martyr's luck

When my emotions run hot as f*ck

I face the wrath of god

Inside your cattle **** (censored - 'prod'?)

So I wait like the Buddha

Wishing I never knew ya.



Here the fact that the writer's 'love is strictly fundamental' which needs 'work' as they really want to 'walk' with Chthulu 'like Jesus' as a 'temptation' which 'cannot be denied' is striking.








God I Wish
Justin S Wampler

God, I wish

I was a demonic

Cthulhu-like being.

Bearing appendages

that are reminiscent

of a squids tentacles,

with the exception

of having pulsing

     heads

     on the

     ends.

        I've

           had

               some

             fun

        with

  these

sick

     and

          low

             thoughts.


A neat calligram.


The Awakening of Great Cthulhu Is At Hand
Elder Merquath


Somewhere in the depths the Pacific Ocean,

deep under those raging cold waves

There lies the corpse city of R’lyeh,

the hide-out of the Great Dreamer

He who always finds his way into the minds

of the weakest of our kind..

For those who listen to him too much,

shall be lost in silence of this most dreadful and moonless night..



'And after vigintillions of years, great Cthulhu will be loose again..

And he shall ravel, and devour on human corpses in all delight!'



And when the stars will finally appear in the right line!

The long-awaited work of constellations and time!

Only then he shall awake

The gargantuan winged monstrous horror released..

From those unimaginably black depths of the deeps!

He shall indeed rise!

To laugh upon, and then break the sun and her fragile light!



May he not dream for long!

In this sunken; reeking city of R’lyeh

Though I know that once he awakes,

he will bring the waves upon the outside world

He will bring great destruction in his wake,

and ruin to those who would even try stand

against his age-old madness and powers untold..



I say the Awakening of Cthulhu is at hand,

his time has finally come!

Soon all the oceans will roar,

the sky will storm without an end,

and all land and forests will be torn apart..



When from his seemingly eternal sleep he wakes,

he then steps through the black door of time; sluggish in appearance,

and ever so changing in color, texture and shape,

and then he.. will come for us.



For he will sink all ships and raise the storm of storms,

and harness the might of the waves and of the winds.

And he will make a horrifying rift into the sky,

and then bring all clouds down upon the earth!



Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.*


(*No, I am not leaning on the keyboard; the above is the actual language of the elder gods).

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