Your poems for the day: H.P. Lovecraft's "Star Winds" and "Antarktos."

[BreweryYardRat]

Star-Winds

It is a certain hour of twilight glooms,
Mostly in autumn, when the star-wind pours
Down hilltop streets, deserted out-of-doors,
But shewing early lamplight from snug rooms.
The dead leaves rush in strange, fantastic twists,
And chimney-smoke whirls round with alien grace,
Heeding geometries of outer space,
While Fomalhaut peers in through southward mists.
This is the hour when moonstruck poets know
What fungi sprout in Yuggoth, and what scents
And tints of flowers fill Nithon's continents,
Such as in no poor earthly garden blow.
Yet for each dream these winds to us convey,
A dozen more of ours they sweep away!

Antarktos

Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly
Of the black cone amid the polar waste;
Pushing above the ice-sheet lone and drearly,
By storm-crazed aeons battered and defaced.
Hither no living earth-shapes take their courses,
And only pale auroras and faint suns
Glow on that pitted rock, whose primal sources
Are guessed at dimly by the Elder Ones.
If men should glimpse it, they would merely wonder
What tricky mound of Nature's build they spied;
But the bird told of vaster parts, that under
The mile-deep ice-shroud crouch and brood and bide.
God help the dreamer whose mad visions shew
Those dead eyes set in crystal gulfs below!

[texanwitch]

1. I love my H.P. Lovecraft.

Everybody should read his books.

[Swede]

3. Something about his stories fascinates me.

The horrors of space,and the terrors of time,the Old Ones etc.

[jus_the_facts]

2. Excellent....he's one of my most favorite authors....

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[martymar64]

4. They're making a film of The Whisperer in Darkness

The HP Lovecraft Historical Society, that is.
They already did a silent film version of Call of Cthulhu.
Go to check out the trailer.
http://www.cthulhulives.org/Whisperer/trailer.html