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Blue Monday

An Ekphrastic Sonnet

By D. J. ReddallPublished 2 years ago • 1 min read
Paul Hughes, "Bastard Blue Series," 2021-: https://www.paulhughes.ie/home/bastard-blue

Monday, familiar and contemptible

Quick to anger and slow to understand

You are as proud as you are ignoble

Your flesh is common and your costume grand

You make the money changer your high priest

An ignoramus runs all of your schools

The thief who purloins from those who have least

You anoint as the author of the rules

You are too ignorant to try knowing

Each of your failures, you call a success

Perfidious, proud, pompous and preening

You are a study in worthless excess

One thing prevents you from eating all hope:

Tuesday will come; until then, we can cope

Ekphrastic

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D. J. Reddall

I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.

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    Written by D. J. Reddall