Best Blue Monday Poems

The third Monday of January is often referred to as 'Blue Monday'.


Christmas is over
decorations packed away ~
all rooms lack sparkle


I step on the scales
new year resolution failed ~
I must have candy


huge bills now arrived
Christmas overspend ~
depression hits hard


bad weather’s forecast
rain clouds and dull dreary days...

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Raining,
Damp,
Cool,
No sunlight,
True, blue Monday...

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Christmas was fabulous, so full of festive cheer
Santa brought presents; his sleigh pulled by six reindeer
Hubby loved the glass tankard he got for his beer
I got a pretty jumper it’s made of cashmere,
and a book of poetry by William Shakespeare

Soon champagne corks popped to welcome...

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BLUE MONDAY

B ereft of life bequeathed wIth loss for ware
L ove cAme, then vanished, like it wasn't  THERE
U nder a Mask i Hide wherE no smile  IS
E ach day Reliving past Events long  STILL

M y inNer strength, it sEems, has lost all...

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Blue Monday!  Poppycock.
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
& A Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned Poet


It’s Monday shout hip hip hooray.
You’re alive on this now new day.
A start of week, it is, it’s true.
Open your minds all of you.

Many laying, in graveyards today!
Would swap with...

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When those shades of grey, turn a Monday blue,
and tears from heaven, soak the holey shoe.
The soul of the day, will fall from favor,
with the distant sound, of a lightning saber.

The day so dismal, with a kidnapped sun,
though it passes by, still we come undone.
For...

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I watch the news,
Tired and sad,
People kneeling on shattered pews,
Praying relatives weren’t hit badly.
Some were lost,
Others gone,
Some to safety,,,
Others to their homes,
Only to be claimed by the beast,
That struck Monday morn.
Blue Monday,
Never to be forgotten,
Always in our memories.
None who were hurt,
Will ever forget,
The monster named...

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"blue monday"


wearing
a t-shirt

that
reads

What
Day

Is 
It?

thinking
Friday...

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