Cthulhu Poems A collection of best literary pieces of contemporary poetry about the strangest yet the most dreadful deity of all ages, CTHULHU. Cthulhu is a Great Old One of great power who lies in a death-like slumber beneath the Pacific Ocean in his sunken city of R'lyeh. He remains a dominant presence in the eldrich dealings on our world. "That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die."- H.P. Lovecraft