[stylist] New poem--Cane of Cchulhu

[EvaMarie Sanchez]

I loved it. I could take the names of the fictional Lovecraft Deity and
insert my own and it is still as powerful, if not metaphorical. For some
reason that I cannot voice, it left me needing more. I some how felt the
end was too abrupt, but perhaps, on reflection as I write this, that was
intentional as another metaphor of mortal existence.
Well, beautiful. Thanks, Eve

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:50 PM, William L Houts via stylist <
stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:

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>
>
> 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
>
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>  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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