Miserere Mei

Here’s to my friends, near and wide, both those with whom I’m in constant contact and those with whom contact is infrequent. God has given me the joy of great friends. Reflecting on their noble honor and blessed memory is humbling.
Christ’s peace to you all, my friends.

Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and [...]

This is the dome of the Andrew Gerow Hodges Chapel of Beeson Divinity School (Samford University) in Birmingham, Alabama.

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 [...]