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Best Left Handed Poems

Below are the all-time best Left Handed poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of left handed poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member She Can'T Be Left-Handed
She can’t be left-handed, my mother told my dad.
Miss Kneeland, the first grade teacher says it’s simply not the fad.
There must be something wrong with...

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Categories: left handed, abuse, angst, anxiety, child
Form: Free verse



Left Handed Lover
my left handed lover
has a silken
touch
knowing
reaching
holding
and yet
breathless
in time....

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Categories: left handed, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Left-Handed Lament
My paper is always turned so people don't judge;
because yes if it's vertical my work will  be smudged. 
With the other I've tried to...

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© Fj Thomas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: left handed, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hands
With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: left handed, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Long Walk Home
T'was freezing cold and I struggled in the heat
I was pleased I'd put warm gloves on my feet
I shouldn't have been out on such a...

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Categories: left handed, humor, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme



Yin & Yang ( a Love Letter )
she's absolut
i'm hennessy
i'm rush hour traffic in L.A.
she's a small town in Tennessee
she's left handed
i think i'm always right
i love the way she will compromise
i...

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Categories: left handed, love, passionme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Sense of Humor
A slight hint of consternation was in her voice,
“Why did you tell those people I’m deaf and dumb?”
“I never said you were deaf, my Dear.”
She...

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Categories: left handed, angst, best friend, care,
Form: Rhyme
Vase Dream - C'Est La Vie
Vase Dream - c'est la vie 

White vase with no design
Dangling there - c'est la vie 
I think somewhere in Center City
Apart from everything
In an...

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Categories: left handed, adventure, change, fun, happy,
Form: Prose Poetry
The 44th President
The 44th President “one who is blessed” in Swahili,
Happens to love his wife’s Shrimp Linguini.
His desk, in the senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy!
Renegade...

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Categories: left handed, black-african amer
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Enduring Hearts
The left handed boy with a stick in his hand drew a row of hearts
across the sand. Tides crept in and washed them away but...

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Categories: left handed, heart,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Scribe Under Fire
Scribe Under Fire

The wall had been there for an eternity
	
	closing gaps of time and sacred places

		field stones memories and gentle caress


Hans could not write any...

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Categories: left handed, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Donned We Then Our Gay Apparel
A keyboard was on a typewriter or piano
  Spankings were approved of, rarely condemned
Clothing was 'gay' --- brightly colored
  They rolled up the...

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Categories: left handed, nostalgia, remember, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part One
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz

Prologue
This is a rather grim epic poetic tale of Rosalia, a 16th century German witch who terrorized...

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Categories: left handed, allegory, evil, halloween, horror,
Form: Narrative
Sinistrality
Tonight, I want to say something wonderful
For the left-handed people who can adapt
to a world full of left-sided thinkers. The ones

who can navigate with all...

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Categories: left handed, celebration, inspiration, meaningful,
Form: Ode
Can I Ever Return
Reborn, a Christian fallacy
dreams that have haunted me
left handed, what a shame
someone has to bear the blame

a teddy bear that never speaks
guards the child from...

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© Bob Shank  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: left handed, childhood, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs