Left handed poetry is an interesting genre. Please pursue it. But there are two things here. First, poems about being left-handed and second poems that show the view of the world that left-handed people have.

I remember the day that I started school

They laughed at me and thought me a fool

I understood the teasing which I couldn't stand

And all because I wrote with my left hand

 

But as time went along I seemed very smart

Given a math problem, I saw the hard part

I seemed to have some special insight

When we did math, I always got it right

 

My friends would say, "How'd you do that?"

I laughed, "I'm a magician, I pulled it out of my hat"

They stared and said "we don't understand"

I said "that's because you use the wrong hand"

 

Resentment soon spread as I did excel

They asked me how but I couldn't tell

All I could say was "I see it in my head"

While you have to think and think instead

 

When I grew up I saw who I was

I had special insight and this was because

God made me that way and he had a reason

He knew we would need a man for all seasons

 

So men like me have accomplished great things

A spark of hope to mankind we bring

But it comes at a price as all things do

We are often resented by people like you

 

 

(c) Copyright Bill Pirkle, posted here with permission to Left Hand World

For more of Bill's poetry see his personal website