05 September 2005

The Cthulhu Haiku

His dreams stir the night
Poets tremble, mountains moan
and Death dreams of Death
Or
Troubled nights come
Forgotten island appears
dead Cthulhu waits

These two are inspired by Call of Cthulhu, obviously. The first I took a further bit of inspiration from the couplet:

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

The second, this single sentence, "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

If Call isn't Lovecraft's best, then it's damn close. Despite the rather silly end.

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