Lefty The Left Handed Poem
They built this world for the other hand,
Every door, every tool, every scissors command.
Ink smears across my palm like war paint,
While spiral notebooks mock me with their constraint.
But I am the mirror breaker,
The rule shaker,
The one who writes backwards
And dreams in reverse.
Ten percent revolution ninety percent poetic evolution
I am the southpaw standing alone
Against a
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Categories:
left handed, imagery, inspirational, me, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Drums 'n' Guitar
Tho' right-handed
instruments the two do play
yet one is downside up
left-handed musicians both are they
or seem to sup
from a similar southpaw cup
and if you follow the trail of crumbs
they lead to Jimi
the Starr of guitar
and stick to Ringo
the Hendrix of drums
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Categories:
left handed, fun, guitar, humorous, music,
Form: Rhyme
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 write;
but man it just doesn't look right.
When I bat on that side
the ump runs to hide.
I can't even start on that foot,
my balance pretty much kaput.
And do
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Categories:
left handed, humor,
Form: Rhyme
She Is Dyslexic and Left Handed
My mother mentioned casually that I was dyslexic.
This was something I had forgotten.
I knew I had to wear a glove for a year of first grade
To force me to not use my left dominant hand.
But I had forgotten the hours I spent after school with Miss Kneeland.
Miss Kneeland was an old maid school teacher
Who had
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Categories:
left handed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Left Handed Boxers
There has never been a southpaw,
Who has the crushing show made poor;
Each in the ring a carnivore,
His left hook, his wasting death jaw,
Your swollen eyes already a law
Before the last bout on the floor.
A lateral body positioning
That The Left Thing keeps conditioning,
From the ring catapulting a victim
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Categories:
left handed, career, courage, people, sports,
Form: Rhyme
The Southpaw
I’m a southpaw,
one of those left-handed,
upside down,
have to curl my arm to write,
backwards individuals,
liv’in-the-left-life
in a right-handed world.
Think It’s easy, e.g.,
being a leftie?
Think again...
we’re out of place at dinners,
have to master backwards scissors,
built specifically for righties and
we are forced to learn everything, in reverse.
We wear permanent spiral wire imprints
on our left arm from trying
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Categories:
left handed, introspection, poems, poetry, psychological,
Form: Free verse
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 her, the whole family agreed.
Look at her right now, 40 feet in the air, upside down in that stupid Oak tree.
So they made me wear a mitt on my left
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Categories:
left handed, abuse, angst, anxiety, child
Form: Free verse
Left Handed Chemistry and An Empty Magic Lamp
you are on my mind yet so far away
left handed chemistry never felt so good
if only mutual feelings could be reached
images of bumping into each other at a beach access stays firm and stubborn in my mind
something about you....always been something about you....
though your color is different from mine, all i see is the natural
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Categories:
left handed, best friend, crush, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Left Handed Scissors Haiku
left handed scissors
the most wonderful dark green
feel mighty special
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Categories:
left handed, how i feel,
Form: Haiku
Left Handed Compliment
My boss asked me how old I was today.
When I told him I was 60 he said, "No Way!"
"Tomorrow I'm putting you on a lighter work detail," to me he told.
"I had no idea that you were so frigging old."
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Categories:
left handed, me, work, me,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
left handed, music
Form: Senryu
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