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Eclipse (Nymphomaniac part one by Lars Von Trier) about Joe’s traumatic grief of her dear father’s death

By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Joe from Nymphomaniac part one

This is a companion piece to my poem Crying.

About a mother and son, death and grief.

This is about a daughter and her deep love for her father.

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even if I could hide behind my bloody, self-pleasured painting

covering up the trauma of sexual release, I find that the

love I have for my father is

indelible, linked to morose passion

petrified, my passion is obscured

silent, like the stars with the painful

eclipse of your sudden death, rising moon-star

(it spells out eclipse because you obscured love, mother, and made my father die without any of your love, like live, painful itchy lice, observed only by moving the obscured dark curly hair)

sad poetry

About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran2 years ago

    Omgggg, this was so raw, intense, emotional and deep! You packed a punch here with your Acrostic! I loved it!

  • Ameer Bibi2 years ago

    Excellent, the love u describes a daughter for her father that's really speechless

  • Oh man, this was tough to read as a "survivor" and trying to get my own head around why I can still feel so much hurt but still long for love and recognition by the person I idolized. Painful.

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