Emergence: A Collection of Poems

By Brad McElroy

This collection of poetry is about expressional thoughts, feelings, and experiences that emerge from unbridled intuition when contemplating lifes joys, pains, and creativity.

Some of these writings are based on actual interactions with others, and some are based on free-flowing thoughts.

The theme of this endeavor is to offer unique interpretations of life in order to enhance the perspectives of readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543474855

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Copyright © 2018 by Brad McElroy.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017919390

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5434-7437-4

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Rev. date: 12/21/2017

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Contents

Almost as Well

The Commute

Burst

Circular Grave

Searching Long

Words of Anger

Through

Survival

Mind to Fight

Princess Di

Commitment

Direction

Inside

Angels

The Radical Forgotten

Credit

To Chase an Invisible Rainbow

Season

I’m Not Kidding

Begging

Skimp

Ladybug

Old Dog

Nature

Prayer

Sometimes

Born

Goodbye

The Player

Missing You

Eternal

Willow Tree

Drawn Out

Prayers Paired

Closing Speech

You Love Only Yourself

Whirlpool

Entombed

Pale Blue Dot

Professor

Relations

Pain

Sacrifice

Break Up

Time Gone Wasted

What Does It Take?

The Spell of Evil

Faith

Symptoms

Continue

Horizons

Belief

Release Me

Calling

Communication

Communicating

Breaking Commandment

First Stop for Sinning Is the Last Stop for Me

God Cries

Midas’s Profit

My Friend

One Day

The Locker Room

Home Team

The Husky

Veined Portrait

Frames

Late Autumn

Criteria of Self

Doubt

Duty, Utilitarianism, and the Fate of the Yielding

Hobbes’s Leviathan

Holy Inquisition

Idiopathic

Descartes Debacle

Almost as Well

Almost as well, people are heard to say,

comparing one to some legend and his old games once played.

Nothing but tiers of levels only insiders can see,

all info passed along encoded in hidden keys.

The forming of corporate man must be continually honed,

almost as well as to make the perfectly suited clone.

These facts are important, teachers are heard to say,

comparing one to some scholar and rules once obeyed.

Squeezing thoughts into lemons and lemons into days,

the mind grows immune, and the soul is lost in daze.

Ironically, some celebrate these lopsided accomplishments,

when it is but a funeral with could