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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 [...]