May 27, 2013 | 4:24 pm

Sarah is in the Tent

Posted by Emily Stern

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Sarah Is In The Tent

Inside your submarined light
I saw through it and forever you have my eyes.

Avraham within the cave wondered if when he killed the kings, he was lost in defacing God;
Not only nature is God.

Someone I admire is superman
In a lighter blue leotard
Than superman had-
The water matching his sparkle, wearing a glass slipper as a headlamp, diamonds slipping and water holding his robe- skating. It seems he, smiling, may be from the bottom of the bay.

Like the Wheel of Fortune, I have strategy
And I have bought my life long before I met you
Above a cloud with a pool inside it as my womb.

Avraham was in the cave when you took me down there
Egypt was scared of birth- children taking over- too many frogs
I used to love being a child, closing my eyes, and seeing blackness.

Emptiness makes it okay to be a dragon with wings.

The more I allow the volcano to erupt, the black sand beaches covered in trash from washed and broken straw huts, the caste system, very unique, geckoes, shadow puppets behind a silk screen, more fear than I’d like to admit, even if we walked on water, it was all perfectly alive
Masks as alive as I am-

An endless way to paper doll myself—laughing with scissors focusing and above my body. I’d never want to buy time, but let it go. Balloon and all, patty cake, and Avraham The Baker’s wife.

If you come to our town, you may want to buy food beforehand. We came to see the light show, and it meant more to the someone I admire to be reminded of the gift of mathematics and angles, magnifying glasses, and laser light. Humble man, all dreams are endearing.

As long as my head peers over that lava, I may be seeing something
We sit in a circle that is really a rectangle- reckless and excited
Now my eyes are orange lids

having made the choice to shine but the dragon’s bones are still inside of me

And my light is just a flicker of his breath.

May 1, 2013 | 1:54 pm

Zombies and Enlightenment

Posted by Emily Stern

The Zombies are such spiritually enlightened ones who give up the self
and follow the way.

The bloody headless ones have only the heart that is the path.

and the vampires, yes, who live forever know the immortal and teach your blood they place beyond.

In the foundation below the foundation 

or simply the FOUNDation that I am opening to you with the cheesed of yesod
and in love.
Why can't i just say what I mean, and say it and not be afraid

That you see it?

For you see it

I think we wanted to expand the world before the when we say this is all.

That you tell me what your eyes saw that day in the basement with signs of simplistic quotes of faith hung by preschool teachers.

And we can play and you enjoy when I'm myself. Deep in the forest of existence is the world of you're supposed to be. I'm not gonna write so that you love me, and I have noticed that when I care for you, I let you know that sometimes the face gets ripped off and finds the You you are.

I miss you
I’ve missed you.
I’ve missed knowing. 
I asked for this life.
I asked for what’s true.
People not on this path… are looking for you.

I am grateful to you. I am in newness of this. I am in love with you and think this could be in subtile ways very helpful. I will learn that honesty can align with glowing goodness and expansion- true, deep honesty. Love is so speakable and we can share that. We are here to be in sharing of what is here. I will tell you what I can about what is here in presence and peace. I am so sorry.

In all ways

You know them, and they display the love we feel when we enter the depths, when we expand beyond what we ever knew what good was or wrong was and light and dark. They say we're immortal, just playing a game, horror and terror, treasures in our chests. We'll make a sound and sing for you this golden cloth.

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April 4, 2013 | 4:22 pm

birth day, an album by Emily Stern

Posted by Emily Stern

Birth Day is an album of 8 songs woven with lyrical melodies and 3 intricately crafted poems orchestrated almost entirely by natural sounds. It explores archetypes and the divine feminine in our collective unconscious with extreme sensitivity to the complexity and daring of spiritual experience. Musical accompainment includes chant, prayer, cicadas, bees, birds, heartbeat, the shofar, a full home birth, thunderstorms, and a conglomerate of conversations on Amsterdam Avenue on a Saturday at midnight.

Available on iTunes by searching in iTunes for my name "emily stern" or the album's title, "birth day."

Two of the poems, "Songbirds," renamed "Soul Sings," and "Remembering Love" were first posted on this blog. All lyrics are availble on my website by clicking on song titles.

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March 21, 2013 | 3:54 pm

Seder Night

Posted by Emily Stern

you are the child moses
you are the river in red.
the scared child is a myth
the child within
you are the child moses and
will soon be free and dreamy
follow him.

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March 20, 2013 | 10:56 am

Flowers For Pesach: part 1

Posted by Emily Stern

I had a dream that while we kissed
my heart beat really fast. so fast that it split the sea.

Forever and Ever we say that G-d reigns.
we say that God wins.

And like in a garden that dream was
planted
right before shabbat came in, your final seed
the seed of freedom
that split the sea. (what am I talking about? click here)

And we as we walk ARE that heart
while we walk our hearts split seeds
open and so new things can grow
the world is awake to see
to see to see.

Forever gets stale really fast
except that at the root is THIS
and the stem is NOW
and the bloom is the sea.

that last seed before shabbat came in
was the first to plant
what's
here in the heart.

I had a dream that while we kissed my heart beat really, really fast. so fast that it went before me

and my chest has opened through me.
 

 

 

 

 

 

#passover #pesach #miracles #immanent divinity #heart #fallinginlove #dream #heartcenteredjudiasm #riseinshine #splittingthesea #rambam

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March 17, 2013 | 1:37 pm

I Think I Love You

Posted by Emily Stern

every time is

complete

it is neither divine
or perfect,

it is only what is
and that is the
best thing I have ever known

in love,
I love you,

God, any time.
and I am to deal
with the love
that is.

it burst me sometimes
and i am in love
All is divine,

you is are perfect.

so much
in sensation
I die.

so much in feeling
that

i can try a layer of protection
and say this
"the time..."
the person,
the thing
the space
the world
the anything that

and yet, it is all

complete.

 

I love you and feel
that I need to tell you

that I am in love.

i am so graciously
thankful.

you are gift.

you are
the thing you want to be.

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March 7, 2013 | 2:52 pm

her heart

Posted by Emily Stern

She is humbled not by the rain or big storms
but by the sweetness of the Heart
and the sweetness that she is.

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February 21, 2013 | 12:57 pm

sinking

Posted by Emily Stern

you're drowning in a sea of love.

it's not the worst death

choosing life.

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