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Howls in Despair
by Georg E Mateos → (All Poetry by Georg E Mateos)
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people, sometimes, are caged inside themselves, tortured, repressing themselves of telling the whole world about their pain, but then...it gets too heavy, too excruciating, and the howls come...


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Caged humanity, howling in utterly despair,
man made cocoon shadows all of them inside,
the unlighted dungeon are Devil’s conception
God was the only one out there holding Light,
they aren’t the angels rattling on man’s cages,
cos in His Universe there aren’t good or bad,
just mindless children without understanding
that breathing wasn’t granted for them to have.

Wolves howling at the moon, former eagles
that roamed over mountains in a previous life,
or the wailing of prairies coyotes everywhere
lamenting themselves the lack of tender lambs,
sometimes the wind will arrive here ululating
complains from far away places forgotten now,
where willow trees let down their green hair
until Jack Frost came filling everything with ice.

The fabric of nightmares, like Munch’s Scream,
a human being howling in utterly despair of man,
emerging from the fog of a breathless little world
trying to reach help where there’s none to find,
mouths petrified in a primal soundless scream
you think only God hear, but the Universe can
hold forever the reverberating echoes of despair
for eons and eons, until the end of all your cries.




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 Reviews of "Howls in Despair"
Reviewed on April 29, 2010
Georg this is like a punch to the heart, no one can write about despair quite like you can. Powerful

Reviewed on April 29, 2010
grievous emotions are so pandemic to individual lives
utterly crippling some people mentally & psyhcologically
from emotional wealth where they cannot even see any other way
Love's Balm
Vickie

Reviewed by J'nia Fowler
Reviewed on April 27, 2010
Scary verses here Georg and your sketch by Munch is so appropriate. Are all of his "Screams" back in the gallery where they belong? I know that several were damaged by the idiot who stole them a few years ago.
"coming along side and sitting a spell, J'nia

Reviewed by Liana Margiva
Reviewed on April 27, 2010
POWERFUL POEM!!!!!!!!!!! EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
Nature echoes all because it is all, the perfect polaroid camera that chooses its subjects but discards the negatives. Patrick

Reviewed on April 26, 2010
Powerful emotions, Georg; hope you are okay! I am worried about you; you are ever in my prayers/thoughts! Well done; bravo!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :(

Reviewed by pat medlin
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
ouch! agghh! ooohhh! gahhhh!... help!please hellllp!



i think the last part i was reading w/out breathing. wow georg you 'really' took my breath away. had to check the mirror in order to close my mouth!



now THIS is what writing is all about for me...



the ability to knock the props out...take someone on an unexpected ride...you've got it georg... you've got what i aspire to and am working toward...was blindsided by the intensity of your dynamic words that painted such a provacative dark clear picture



and thatsallihavetosayaboutthat....patmedlin...whewww




Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
Great articulation of the depths of despair, George - silent or otherwise. You have painted a very vivid picture and allegory of the tortures that our human minds can endure before at long last we throw back our heads, open our mouths and submit to that long-suppressed scream. And often it is also a long road that follows as all that was bottled-up behind it comes eschewing out.... Dante-esque. As always,a thoughtful and precise. xx

Reviewed by Peter Schlosser (Reader)
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
Reminds me of Goya's famous painting of Cronus eating his children.

Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
GOD NOT ONLY 'HEARS'...GOD 'KNOWS' AND HE HOLDS A LIGHT INSIDE AND OUT ... THINGS CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT AND SOMETIMES ONE WILL FEEL LIKE HOWLING...AND THAT REALLY IS ALRIGHT BECAUSE GOD WAITS AND HE IS IN THE 'COMFORTING' AND 'STRENGTHENING' BUSINESS...ALL DAY AND ALL THE TIME. HE IS REALLY A EVER PRESENT HELP...SO, WE HOWL...BUT NOT IN DESPAIR AND NOT FOREVER. THANKS FOR SHARING AND BLESSINGS, LOVE, JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Susan Sonnen
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
"you think only God hear, but the Universe can
hold forever the reverberating echoes of despair
for eons and eons, until the end of all your cries."


Wow! Georg, this is so intense! Excellent work.

Reviewed by Morning Star
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
Georg this one strikes a cord
I have seen what happens
when despair strikes
And I believe at one time or another
we are all susceptible
Especially when we are overly stress
Your words captured emotions and sadness
Beautifully!
Georg....I do hope this is just Poetry?
Wishing you Peace Love and Light...Yolie

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
Let it all out bro', as keeping it inside is a killer for one with such a big heart as yours...(I know this is fictional but I thought what I said was right) ed

Reviewed on April 26, 2010
Georg, I am with you, I am getting hoarse, but enough of us, we'll make a choir, though you must be the Choirmaster, for as Ed, said, wasn't Munch's name Edvard, how perceptive of him.
Blessings! Jasmin Horst

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
well said!

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
This one will strike a bit of fear into the hearts and soul of all who read for we are all vunerable to despair...some just take longer to fall but often fall the hardest...well done Georg
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Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on April 26, 2010
cos in His Universe there aren’t good or bad,
just mindless children without understanding

It sadly seems that way, more and more these days. And I think I'll keep on howling with my dogs in the woods at night - they probably know far more than I do.

PS: Wasn't Mr. Munch's first name - Edvard??!!


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