Miserere Mei

Here’s a poem I wrote in tenth grade of high school. It was subsequently published in the February 1992 edition of The High School Writer.
Ode to My Friend
There is a friend in my life,
Who makes it so much easier.
Such a nice and gentle one.
He is a pleasant fellow,
Whose company I enjoy.
He helps me through [...]

On May 2, 2000, Ambassador Alan Keyes was a guest on the “Tonight Show” where he ended his appearance by singing a song he had written. Here follow the lyrics.
You Are There
By Alan L. Keyes
I touch the world
With hands too weak
Frail as the words
That I speak.
I hear the sounds,
Dragging with pain,
Scented with life’s wise [...]

Here’s a nonsense poem I wrote in 1999 during my last semester in college at The University of Alabama.
The Frog I Met
(By Sparky)
Running in the fields today,
I met a bullfrog in the hay.
Red with yellow polka-dots,
He was an odd fellow from an odd lot.
Frog never jumped while I was there–
He was too busy trying to [...]

By Marie Gleiter
When times go wrong as they somtimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is strange with its twists and turns,
As [...]

By Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.
But such a tide as was moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
An [...]