[stylist] New poem--Cane of Cchulhu

[William L Houts]

Hey Shawn,

I think this poem is simply amazing on several levels.  First of all, 
you come up with the charming notion of lending dread Cthulhu a white 
cane, that he might see better, down there in the Stygian depths of 
R'lyeh.  That's just delightfully loopy and something which gives the 
reader an door key to the poetic imagination from which the poem 
emerges.  And then you go


On to offer your compassion for Cthulhu in his blind state, compassion 
for this terrifying alien god: genius.  Finally you speak of borrowing 
the cane from Cthulhu, as if by doing so you could imbue yourself with 
his dark deific powers, essentially switching places with that Elder 
God.  I've never before read anything where the writer expresses 
identification with one of the Elder Gods; as far as I know, it's wholly 
original with you.  My only even mildly critical remark is that you 
might have missed one trick:  that of hauling Azathoth, the Blind Idiot 
God of the Lovecraftian myhthos into the proceedings.  But all in all, 
it's really wonderful work.



--Bill

  7/21/2015 11:51 AM, Jacobson, Shawn D via stylist wrote:
> OK
>
> I got tired of being blocked, so decided to scribble down a poem for what it's worth.
>
> And here it is.
>
> Shawn
>
> Cane of Cchulhu
>
> Surely elder gods
> who dwell in deepest darkness
> do not walk by sight
>
> Cchulhu it is said
> lives in utter darkness
> in stygian caves or lightless voids
> in realms beyond the ken of man.
>
> And so what would this creature know of light
> to it as alien as is blindness
> to those who see and trust in sight alone
> happy in their normal suppositions.
>
> So should Cchulhu walk our mundane ground
> what then could help to navigate our ways
> a cane perhaps to help him on his way
> through the intricacies of the lands we take for granted.
>
> And what then of this soul,
> nether living in sight or blindness
> surrounded by a mighty unseen host
> by Gods and monsters alien to my nature.
>
> Then should I seek Cchulhu's cane.
> So as to walk with barrowed confidence,
> the ways of light and darkness
> all of the worlds in which I dwell.
>
> I do not walk by sight
> for I to live in darkness
> in need of guidance.
>
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