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A Sad Child - Poem by Margaret Atwood

You're sad because you're sad.
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.

Well, all children are sad
but some get over it.
Count your blessings. Better than that,
buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.
Take up dancing to forget.

Forget what?
Your sadness, your shadow,
whatever it was that was done to you
the day of the lawn party
when you came inside flushed with the sun,
your mouth sulky with sugar,
in your new dress with the ribbon
and the ice-cream smear,
and said to yourself in the bathroom,
I am not the favorite child.

My darling, when it comes
right down to it
and the light fails and the fog rolls in
and you're trapped in your overturned body
under a blanket or burning car,

and the red flame is seeping out of you
and igniting the tarmac beside your head
or else the floor, or else the pillow,
none of us is;
or else we all are.


Comments about A Sad Child by Margaret Atwood

  • Gold Star - 145,767 Points Robert Murray Smith (5/5/2017 11:25:00 PM)

    A nice positive poem.10 (Report) Reply

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  • Gold Star - 11,345 Points Tapan M. Saren (4/17/2017 4:31:00 AM)

    Beautiful poem.......... (Report) Reply

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  • Gold Star - 145,767 Points Robert Murray Smith (3/21/2017 12:56:00 AM)

    I liked your direct no holds barred approach. (Report) Reply

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Poems About Sad

  1. 1. A Sad Child , Margaret Atwood
  2. 2. A Fairly Sad Tale , Dorothy Parker
  3. 3. ‘and Ask Ye Why These Sad Tears Stream?’ , Alfred Lord Tennyson
  4. 4. The Sad Mother , Gabriela Mistral
  5. 5. Be Not Sad , James Joyce
  6. 6. Sad In Blue (A Lyric) , Peter S. Quinn
  7. 7. A Sad State Of Freedom , Nazim Hikmet
  8. 8. To A Sad Daughter , Michael Ondaatje
  9. 9. Sad , Cristina Geanta
  10. 10. For A Sad Lady , Dorothy Parker
  11. 11. In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad , Alfred Edward Housman
  12. 12. Sit Down, Sad Soul , Barry Cornwall
  13. 13. Sad-Eyed And Soft And Grey , William Morris
  14. 14. With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb's.. , William Wordsworth
  15. 15. Baseball's Sad Lexicon , Franklin Pierce Adams
  16. 16. Sad Is Stupid , Alison Cassidy
  17. 17. Close Those Sad Sad Eyes , Beautiful Grim
  18. 18. My Sad Captains , Thom Gunn
  19. 19. To The Sad Moon , Sir Philip Sidney
  20. 20. Sad Green Eyes , Linda Ori
  21. 21. Bored And Sad , Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
  22. 22. The Journey Of A Poem Compared To All Th.. , Delmore Schwartz
  23. 23. Phantasmagoria Canto Vii ( Sad Souvenaun.. , Lewis Carroll
  24. 24. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains , Anonymous Olde English
  25. 25. Peacock Story 8 - A Sad Poem , Alison Cassidy
  26. 26. The Bad Season Makes The Poet Sad , Robert Herrick
  27. 27. The Lacking Sense Scene.--A Sad-Coloured.. , Thomas Hardy
  28. 28. Sonnet Xxxi: With How Sad Steps, O Moon , Sir Philip Sidney
  29. 29. Sad Sad Day , Laura Green
  30. 30. ! To A God-Daughter On Her Sad Poem , Michael Shepherd
  31. 31. Sad Song , Rahel Bluwstein
  32. 32. I Sing A Sad Song , Dorothy (Alves) Holmes
  33. 33. To A Sad Girl , Uriah Hamilton
  34. 34. Sonnet Iii: With How Sad Steps , Sir Philip Sidney
  35. 35. .sad Girl , YURI DURAAN
  36. 36. Sad Cypress , koyel mitra
  37. 37. Sonnet: Languid, And Sad, And Slow, From.. , William Lisle Bowles
  38. 38. The Sad Day , Thomas Flatman
  39. 39. The Sad Shepherd , William Butler Yeats
  40. 40. Sad , Sylvia Chidi
  41. 41. ’tis A Sad, Mad World! , Dr. A.Celestine Raj Manohar ..
  42. 42. Happy & Sad , Sumita Datta
  43. 43. Sad And Lonely , Taher Shemaly
  44. 44. A Sad Sad Story , Joyce Hemsley
  45. 45. The Sad Bastards Club , Francesca Johnson
  46. 46. Sad Eyes , Mariana Zita
  47. 47. ! The Sad Story Of Happiness , Michael Shepherd
  48. 48. ! ! A Sad Tale Of Consumerism , Michael Shepherd
  49. 49. Languid, And Sad, And Slow, From Day To .. , William Lisle Bowles
  50. 50. Mad And Sad , Samantha Guinen

New Sad Poems

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  3. Sad Whale, Emily 1 Krauss
  4. The Song Plays On, Oduro Bright Amoh
  5. When One Is Sad Thus One Should Wish For.., Raymond Sawyer
  6. The Clown, gordon nosworthy
  7. Sadness And Its Tools, MOHAMMAD SKATI
  8. Seasonal Affective Disorder, Mark Heathcote
  9. Sahar's Sadness, MOHAMMAD SKATI
  10. Ballad Of All Sad Men, Juwon Daniel
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