{"id":8144,"date":"2021-08-01T18:59:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2021-08-01T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T18:30:08","slug":"richard-is-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/01\/richard-is-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard is Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHEN I am dead and over me bright April<\/p>\n

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Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n
Tho’ you should lean above me broken-hearted,<\/p>\n
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I shall not care.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful<\/p>\n

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When rain bends down the bough,<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted<\/p>\n
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Than you are now.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

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Many have said that this poem by Sara Teasdale was her suicide note<\/p>\n

But it was written some eighteen years before her suicide<\/p>\n

The poem is called I Shall not Care<\/em><\/p>\n

This was Richards favourite poem she kept a copy<\/p>\n

In a silver box on her bedside table<\/p>\n

Opposite her bed was a photograph of Sara Teasdale<\/p>\n

Which had been captured in 1907<\/p>\n

Richard wanted to share her sleep with the poet<\/p>\n

But had noticed that her skin was turning blue<\/p>\n

There was no reason for this and the condition baffled the doctors<\/p>\n

They recommended strong sunlight so she went to California<\/p>\n

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suicide note<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHEN I am dead and over me bright April Shakes out her rain-drenched hair, Tho’ you should lean above me broken-hearted, I shall not care. I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough, And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted Than you are now.   Many have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}