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Best Lefty Poems

Below are the all-time best Lefty poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of lefty poems written by PoetrySoup members


Lefty Louie
Once was a man named lefty Louie
Tried robbing corner store Oh phooey
Little did he come know
Ten sensei's Ready go
Here there nothing felt but Ka Pooey's






Tribute...

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Categories: lefty, child, children, daughter, dedication,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member My First Baseball Bat
Dad gave me my first wood baseball bat
an Eddie Mathews signature model, 28 inches long
when I was 10 or 11 ('66 or '67)

shortly after he...

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Categories: lefty, family, joy,
Form: Bio
Shortest Love Story
Our elbows collided, 
'cause my desk is wrong-sided.
Made for a lefty, 
When I write
with my right....

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Categories: lefty, care, celebration, child, courage,
Form: I do not know?
Know Vertigo Hear
Confucius was confusing
speaking of tones in long
ago bones found in a stone
carving of sorts. A King
with legs too short playing
hot!kee indeed.

Hold my sky.the Scribe isn't...

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© Izzy Gumbo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lefty, adventure, friendship, mystery, nature
Form: I do not know?
Ride Em Cowboy
my heroes have alway's been cowboys
                   ...

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Categories: lefty, adventure, cowboy-western, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Clinging To My Bible and Bear Spray
One DIRTY BIRD COP and (our) cities burn... again
now the far lefty loons are flapping about wanting to defund 
and even ELIMINATE police forces all...

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Categories: lefty, baptism, best friend, bible,
Form: Free verse
No Blocking the Plate
It's a round ball with a wooden bat.
Take some time to swing with that.

Ninety feet will get you there, 
From the lefty box (it's square).

Toward...

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Categories: lefty, analogy, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
The New York Yankees
The New York Yankees have made winning a tradition.
They’ve won for years despite periodic transition.
Since the twenties, the Yankees have won many a game.
Their yearly...

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Categories: lefty, dedication, sports
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Baseball Trash Can Cats Vs Downtown Stray
Here we are fans this fine summer day,
to watch Trash Can Cats, versus Downtown Stray.
The field is grand in this deep wooded glen,
pitchers are warming...

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Categories: lefty, baseball, fun, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
It's Two Days After Thursday
Enter the Everest that devastates,
he never ever rests and he demonstrates,
how the greatness activates traits
that forever feed hate,
into enemies with envious jealousy
and sad little nul...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lefty, hip hop, me, rap,
Form: Rhyme
A Slow Pitch
In the dirt of the diamond, my son’s eyes
Burn below the rim of his red hat
And he pulls his hand back,
looks at the score yet...

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Categories: lefty, baseball, change, children, growing
Form: Free verse
The Elements of Everchange: a Name I Call Myself
LARRY LaVELLE

i call myself the man
it is not a pick-me-upper
it ain't no do-re-me
it is just the way i feel about myself
i call myself the man
one...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lefty, god, growth, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Well Here We Are
at last he knows what
has been kicking his ass all these years
living a slow trauma smelling of empire
guardians of civilization on strike or asleep
concluding that...

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Categories: lefty, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
I Think I'Ll Survive
Yes, I'm left handed, I think I'll survive, 
I can walk, I can talk and actually drive!! 
I can cut paper fine, even tie my...

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Categories: lefty, fun, happy, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
An Expendable Right-Hander
The Mets figured they already had a pitching ace.
They badly needed a competent man to play third base.
A righty and a lefty were considered better...

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Categories: lefty, baseball, history,
Form: Rhyme

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