{"id":3161,"date":"2010-09-19T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=3161"},"modified":"2010-09-19T15:35:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T22:35:34","slug":"we-are-all-cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=3161","title":{"rendered":"We Are All Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You will be pleased, as I was, that William Arthurs gave us\u00a0his permission to publish this beautiful poem.\u00a0 In his words, from his\u00a0website:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We Are All Cousins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wrote the words below in 1966 while on deployment with the Royal Canadian Air Force at the Italian Air Base at Decimomannu, Sardinia, when I was\u00a0flying CF-104 Starfighters during the Cold War. It was dedicated later to one of my air force buddys, Jack Murdoch.<\/p>\n<p>Little did I know then that I would develop an interest in the science of genetics and DNA that\u00a0might tend to complement the sense of reincarnation that the poem implies.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Arthurs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In Memorium John Herbert Murdoch<\/strong><br \/>\n1931-2001<br \/>\n<strong>Costa del Sol<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by William R. Arthurs<br \/>\nI see my multi-image stretching to the sun;<br \/>\nThe trace of footsteps seaward whence I come.<br \/>\nAgain I stand here, restless on your shore;<br \/>\nTo muse for fitful hours as before.<br \/>\nFor I am Visigoth and Moor. I am ancient Greek,<br \/>\nAnd troubadour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Millennia ago I shuffled down this sheltered bay.<br \/>\nEach thousand years, each transcendent day,<br \/>\nYour enchantment beckons. I obey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The drums that beat the multitude to war<br \/>\nI hear them not: for me they pulse no more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s now your solace, your solitude I crave;<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s some silence midst your crashing wave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So succour us who seek the grail of youth,<br \/>\nWho ride the universe in search of truth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My time is short, and I am tied to time;<br \/>\nSo little left to live, and love, and rhyme,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To clasp the coy Astarte by the hand,<br \/>\nTo write <em>te quiero<\/em> on your wrinkled sand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will be pleased, as I was, that William Arthurs gave us\u00a0his permission to publish this beautiful poem.\u00a0 In his words, from his\u00a0website: We Are All Cousins I wrote the words below in 1966 while on deployment with the Royal Canadian Air Force at the Italian Air Base at Decimomannu, Sardinia, when I was\u00a0flying CF-104 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[248,252,250,249,253,251,254],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-costa-del-sol","tag-grail","tag-rebirth","tag-reincarnation","tag-search","tag-solitude","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3166,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}