Peter began writing after reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, and the Oxford Movement. Apropos of nothing, Peter believes he may be distantly related to Sir Anthony Hopkins!

The left-handers

We are at City Voices today,
What more can I say?
If you are like me
I know where you will be.
If you write with your left hand,
Sit on my right hand
In the left-handers corner
We lefties were born there!
Special gifts have we
As you shall see.
We number only three
If you are a leftie
Come sit with me.
Our minds are always open,
No clashing of our pens!
Right-handed they tried to make us
Oh with such useless fuss!
No right-hander can say
They made us write this way,
Left-handers have all fought to be
As God made them to be
But because of right-handers force
We still fight the left-handers cause
Left-handers must never be outlaws
To a right-handers law.
Natural left-handers can say,
Ambidextrous we must be
Because of force exerted on me.
But now we are four
Whose writing you will adore!
©Peter Salt