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The 14th of November

Is World Diabetes Day

Explain to those around you

How we keep illness at bay


Stay aware of your Diabetes

Please handle it just right

Eat well in the daytime

Sleep well every night


Show that you can do this

It’s important that you care

Spread that diabetic lifeline

So everyone’s aware


We have to join together

Diabetics all around

Share the care with others

To keep us safe and sound


Don’t let your diabetes

Cast shadows on your time

It has to know we run the show

This is no pantomime


Diabetes we have got you

This World Diabetes Day

No slipping with bad habits

We keep illness away


Remember in November

Our loved ones gone before

Aim healthy in their memory

Be diabetic to the core


Let caring be the keyword

Show yourself the way

On the fourteenth of November

For World Diabetes Day
 
How are these special days decided? Is there some international committee making sure they don't coincide? I note that World Diabetes day is neatly positioned between National Sundae Day and Chicken Nugget Day on the 11th and 13th and Homemade Bread Day/Baklava Day on the 17th.
 
Well, I appreciate the work that has gone into this poem but in my opinion it is more likely to reinforce stereotypes than anything else.
 
KK123 said:
Well, I appreciate the work that has gone into this poem but in my opinion it is more likely to reinforce stereotypes than anything else.
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How about this one.

"Diabetes—a poem
Drinking a lot
Peeing a lot
Is it my body?
Or the weather is hot?
Go to the doctor, people say
Maybe I can wait another day
I don’t like hospitals anyway
But still need to know if I am okay
So, it seems that my pancreas is lazy
Don’t say diabetes, it drives me crazy. Sugar diabetes, I detest you You made my vision and life hazy
Testing blood sugar is not fun
Day after day, I’m never done
How to know what to eat?
While my sugars continue to jump and run
Feeling locked, maybe I am “low ”
And when “high” I’ m tired and slow
My beta cells are on strike
They permanently cut the insulin flow
Tell me pharmacist: is this number a price or a date?
Paying for insulin, something I hate
So expensive, and no one cares
Diabetes, no doubt, is a pricey fate
Insulin pumps can talk to iPhone
Continuous sensors can detect the ketone. If the technology is so advanced Why couldn’t it make a beta cell clone?
Despite a diagnosis harsh and dure
I remain positively sure
Science will concur the despair
And one day we will have a CURE"

https://diabetesvoice.org/en/advocating-for-diabetes/diabetes-awareness-through-poetry/
 
Or maybe this one
"
Pain in my feet
With pincushion fingers.
Blurred double vision,
Exhaustion that lingers.
I thought it was fat,
That I had to avoid.
Turns out it was sugar,
No, I'm not paranoid.
Thirsty? Yes, always.
Tired? Exercise.
Hungry? Can't eat,
Gained another full size.
Blood sugar up,
Blood sugar down.
Feels both the same,
And my heart still pounds.
The pills aren't a cure,
Insulin either,
A meter to measure
My angry blood fever.
No eating for fun,
No ice cream for me,
Have I seen the last sunrise
That I'll ever see?
My doctor say's 'Manage'
My friends all just worry,
Seems I'm living my life
In one **** big hurry.
It’s a lonely disease
And it fogs up my brain,
Drains all my strength,
And then, there's the pain.
So chop off my feet,
And I'll get a Rascal,
This diabetic life,
It's more than a hassle."

Sandra Osborne

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/diabetes/
 
JohnEGreen said:
How about this one.

"Diabetes—a poem
Drinking a lot
Peeing a lot
Is it my body?
Or the weather is hot?
Go to the doctor, people say
Maybe I can wait another day
I don’t like hospitals anyway
But still need to know if I am okay
So, it seems that my pancreas is lazy
Don’t say diabetes, it drives me crazy. Sugar diabetes, I detest you You made my vision and life hazy
Testing blood sugar is not fun
Day after day, I’m never done
How to know what to eat?
While my sugars continue to jump and run
Feeling locked, maybe I am “low ”
And when “high” I’ m tired and slow
My beta cells are on strike
They permanently cut the insulin flow
Tell me pharmacist: is this number a price or a date?
Paying for insulin, something I hate
So expensive, and no one cares
Diabetes, no doubt, is a pricey fate
Insulin pumps can talk to iPhone
Continuous sensors can detect the ketone. If the technology is so advanced Why couldn’t it make a beta cell clone?
Despite a diagnosis harsh and dure
I remain positively sure
Science will concur the despair
And one day we will have a CURE"

https://diabetesvoice.org/en/advocating-for-diabetes/diabetes-awareness-through-poetry/
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Now that one I like, far more realistic!
 
JohnEGreen said:
Or maybe this one
"
Pain in my feet
With pincushion fingers.
Blurred double vision,
Exhaustion that lingers.
I thought it was fat,
That I had to avoid.
Turns out it was sugar,
No, I'm not paranoid.
Thirsty? Yes, always.
Tired? Exercise.
Hungry? Can't eat,
Gained another full size.
Blood sugar up,
Blood sugar down.
Feels both the same,
And my heart still pounds.
The pills aren't a cure,
Insulin either,
A meter to measure
My angry blood fever.
No eating for fun,
No ice cream for me,
Have I seen the last sunrise
That I'll ever see?
My doctor say's 'Manage'
My friends all just worry,
Seems I'm living my life
In one **** big hurry.
It’s a lonely disease
And it fogs up my brain,
Drains all my strength,
And then, there's the pain.
So chop off my feet,
And I'll get a Rascal,
This diabetic life,
It's more than a hassle."

Sandra Osborne

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/diabetes/
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Erm..this one not so much, TOO realistic, ha ha.
 
Poems are to long to read without a space between verses or what ever they are called.

Here's some diabetic haiku's I picked up in a quick trawl of Google.

Diabetes meds
Can make us feel rather sick
Still have to take them

How much insulin?
Let me count carbohydrates
In that plate of food

My meter is broken
That must be the reason that
My glucose is twelve

Shiver shake tremble
Mind gone awry and hungry
Hypoglycaemic

Edit: One to many silly bulls in one of them.
 
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Riva_Roxaban said:
Poems are to long to read without a space between verses or what ever they are called.

Here's some diabetic haiku's I picked up in a quick trawl of Google.

Diabetes meds
Can make us feel rather sick
Still have to take them

How much insulin?
Let me count carbohydrates
In that plate of food

My meter is broken
That must be the reason that
My glucose is twelve

Shiver shake tremble
Mind gone awry and hungry
Hypoglycaemic

Edit: One to many silly bulls in one of them.
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Yes that's fine if you like haiku's Not too keen my self.
Did you happen to open the links I provided to the original poems if you had you will see that they are written in the proper form the cut and paste changed it and I did not go to the trouble of seperating it all back as my cataracts another gift from Mr D make it a little bit difficult to concentrate on the screen my apologies.

Here try this

kusa no to mo
sumikawaru yo zo
hina no ie

Matsuo Bashō,

Translation
Even a thatched hut
May change with a new owner
Into a doll’s house.

I know it's not Haiku but Haibun that is a form that contains prose and haiku elements and is more to my liking .:)
 
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