Cthulhu Dreams
By DJ Tyrer
Beneath the waves, misconstrued
Squid-like dragon alien god thing
Dead and dreaming, alive yet static
Awaiting the stars’ awakening call
Cthulhu is metaphor and myth
Yet also baleful ultimate reality.
Originally published in Cyaegha magazine
Cyclopea
By Harris Coverley
pre-human ruins
hidden at a distant point
Cthulhu calling
Death Has Raised Itself a Throne
By Cardinal Cox
(with lines from Edgar Allen Poe)
Lo! Death has raised itself a throne
Beneath Pacific miles deep
Fathoms down where lie timeless bones
Not dead but in eternal sleep
In slime grow skeletal flowers
And where alone ancient worms creep
Their shrines, palaces and towers
Where evil gods wrote their seals
Raised by unnatural powers
All undisturbed by ship’s keel
Where evil has this living tomb
Heeding mad hierophant’s zeal
Spawning nightmares in rotten womb
Promising humanities doom
No rays from high heavens come down
But light from out the lurid sea
Within this gulf where our hopes drown
Streams up the turrets silently
From lava bright in cracks below
Gleams up pinnacles far and free
Molten rocks bubble up and flow
From deeper yet, Earth’s very core
Affords to grant a hellish glow
Amidst ruins there stands a door
Locked, bolted by immortal hand
Forbidden by a timeless law
Forged by skills we’d not understand
Waves pound but not erode to sand
While from proud tower in the town
An idol with diamond eyes
Death looks gigantically down
Now you know that they were not lies
The whispers you heard in glades dark
While you stumbled brief how’s and why’s
Human vanity, wide of mark
We are but dust in sunlit beams
Meaningless as boson or quark
History never been what it seems
Toy-box of more powerful things
Civilisation – some god’s dreams
All doomed if it beats its great wings
Same fate for all – paupers and kings
Smile of Cthulhu
By DJ Tyrer
Cthulhu smiling
Unseen grin at cosmic joke
Tentacles twitching
Originally published in Tigershark ezine
Cthulhu
By DS Davidson
Call of Cthulhu
Insane artists gain strange muse
Until stars align
View From Atlantis 