I am a Lefty
Hope you don’t mind
Can’t help it, I do
Belong to the other kind
Long ago in a different time
Lefties were burned at the stake
Possessed by the devil
Drowned in a lake
Thank goodness
Today it’s not as bad
We’re allowed to live
And that’s rather rad
A lot of us though don’t
Make it to old age
But we live rather well
Till exiting left of stage
We’re smarter, faster,
Better than the right
No matter our color
Be it black or white
We are like that
Cos everything’s wrong
Just seems to be right
But that makes us strong
We lefties are inventive
Turning right into left
For us life is difficult
We need to be deft
It’s not just the hand,
But the foot and the eye
That make us different
And nobody knows why
Writing, painting,
All the fine art
Are the endeavors
That set us apart
That glorious mix-up
Inside our stellar brain
Grants us the freedom
To be noble and vain
Only one in ten people
Is blessed with this gift
That’s why we’re so special
If you get my drift
I am a lefty
And real proud of that
Running circles around
Righties, in no time flat
Note to reader: Just for the fun of it, please comment with either the word "right" or the word "left",
or, if you would like to write a comment, please add either one of these two words at the end, depending
on whether you are right or left handed.
This informal "survey" will hopefully show us the percentage of left-handers on this writer's forum. General population
is about 10%, but here it could be different!
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Author:
Alfred Peyer (Pseudonym) (
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A fine write Fred. Ah yes, the left hand was seen as bad, and the right hand as good, at least by Jews, and maybe others too. I'm not Jewish myself.
There's another bit I picked up on right/left hands, but bit long to explain here.
left right left right left right.
I'm marching in a parade.
macys thanksgiving day parade
oh yeah I'm a righty. what are you left with.
Good write. I seem to have noticed recently that I come across more and more left handed people. I my self am right handed and when I sit down at the piano I wonder what the left hand is there for!
So you're biased to your left, right? It's no understatement when you know that cant be right, so a statement like yours is just best left. Right away i knew you'd want to bring politics into this lifestyle too or is that best left? Was grandma left handed too? Did the pullover she knitted fit you better than right handed Aunt Mabel's sock's?
b-e, that must be one of the best comments I ever got! Thank you for recognizing that the whole poem war written for fun. Have to point out though that lefties ARE special! 🙂
PS: Assume you are right!
You've got it dead right = or in case dead left
Thanks Michael, doesn't matter if right or left, as long as I am not dead 🙂
You'll be pleased to know you're not dead Fred - well you weren't at 14.23 USA time.
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When nothing is going right, go LEFT.
What a fun poem 🙂 tell me though.. what about the ambidextrous? :p
Good advise about going left Renzi, need to remember that!
I don't call it ambidextrous (even though that is the correct name), I call it bi-lingual since I am always talking with my hands.
Seriously, without having any scientific research to prove my point, my personal opinion is that lefties are probably ahead of righties when it comes to using either hand. We have no choice, a lot of equipment is made for righties, so we have to adapt.
In my case, I can write with either one, was forced in school to learn writing with the right hand (which for me obviously was the wrong one!)
Can write with both simultaneously, but only the same text.
Cute your poem. You are left but right when you say left has some advantage. I agree. I'm right but my stronger side is my left if it counts. All my left side is better than the right. My older son is left and he is overall better than most people I know. If I want an opinion I always ask him. You shine.
Thanks so much for the compliments regarding lefties. We need all the goodwill we can get! 🙂
Several lefties in the family, but I'm a righty. I hope your penmanship is better than my left handed dad, poor thing.
I've heard that left handed people lead bad lives. I can't say though, because I'm right handed. There are some things I do better with my left though. Good spot of fun, Fred.
Must have been a righty who told you! 😉
It was from a left handed person , lol
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