{"id":1698,"date":"2016-02-01T16:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthempaths.net\/wp\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2016-08-02T00:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T00:10:19","slug":"where-i-stand-today-by-niels-kunze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/?p=1698","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Where I Stand Today&#8221; by Niels Kunze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where I Stand Today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a lifetime of untangling,<br \/>\nI stand in the vastness of freedom\u2019s dire threat:<br \/>\nThat self-determination will bend time\u2019s narrow path<br \/>\nto open fields&#8230; brand new sunshine&#8230; and a perfectly blank canvas.<br \/>\nI stand barefoot, rooted,<br \/>\nand emotionally naked&#8230; staring into the dark abyss<br \/>\nof all possibility&#8211; unmeasured&#8230; unfathomed.<br \/>\nI stand in a fearlessness once deemed impossible;<br \/>\nI stand on principle and my own self-defined integrity,<br \/>\nWrapped in universal lore.<\/p>\n<p>I stand, chiefly, among fierce women&#8230;<br \/>\nFor whoever would go forth into the bottomless unknown<br \/>\nbut the Divine Feminine\u2019s irrationally steadfast love?<br \/>\nShe probes the darkness with intuition<br \/>\nand other vague motherly stirrings,<br \/>\nReaching deep within unordered possibilities&#8230;<br \/>\nTo bring a new child into our shared world.<br \/>\nShe hands to me the strange artifacts of her creativity,<br \/>\nImploring softly with her eyes<br \/>\nthat I should bring structure and meaning<br \/>\nto the seedlings of this pristine world.<\/p>\n<p>We stand together, Masculine and Feminine,<br \/>\nHer upfront, reaching within the untrammeled field,<br \/>\nAnd I behind&#8230; guarding, protecting&#8230; from our collective indiscretions&#8211;<br \/>\nMonsters from the past, paper tigers, feeding the flames<br \/>\nof this unplanned passion.<br \/>\nThey cannot harm us Now, where we stand&#8230; Here<br \/>\nin the sureness of our choices going forward&#8230;<br \/>\nWe will have this New World,<br \/>\nAnd it will stand on love and poetry<br \/>\nas the dirt between our toes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielskunze.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Niels Kunze<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 44px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where I Stand Today: After a lifetime of untangling, I stand in the vastness of freedom\u2019s dire threat: That self-determination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,91,8,4,88],"tags":[50,33,16,41],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-metamystical","category-poetry-the-muse","category-scribes","category-wisdom","tag-being","tag-divine-mother","tag-fearless","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthempaths.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}