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    • #5970
      Tim
      Keymaster

      After limericks, haikus are the highest of all the artforms. So go for it wordsmiths!

    • #7353
      Tim
      Keymaster

      Insulin at home
      No money left for sweeties
      Which way will I go?

    • #7354
      Tim
      Keymaster

      Hated daily needle
      Bites my skin like mosquito
      Cursed with this disease

    • #7356
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Tim this is all to much. This is like year 6 homework!

    • #7358
      Tim
      Keymaster

      Lancet pricks the finger
      Crimson blood spots
      Will I lick or use a tissue?

    • #7359
      Tim
      Keymaster

      @mustard – it’s important for diabetics to join together and write haikus & limericks. Through the medium of poetry we can finally beat diabetes! Woo!

    • #7360
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Tim, you appear to have trampled over centuries of Japanese poetic beauty. A haiku should be 5 syllables, then 7, then 5. For example:

      Rancid pancreas
      No longer makes insulin.
      I inject pig juice.

    • #7361
      Tim
      Keymaster

      To be pedantic @woolfy, haikus have 17 moras, which are different from syllables.

      BTW, other readers, @woolfy did actually write the first two haikus on this page and, indeed, takes worthy credit for actually coming up with the name of the site in the first place. I believe a barely audible and somewhat contemptuous round of applause is in order.

    • #7362
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Well, I stand corrected. But your last haiku has 18 morae. And apparently it should address the natural world, contain a seasonal word, and a “cutting word”. So:

      Winter comes again;
      Amputated toes can’t freeze.
      My silver-lined cloud.

      I’ve been very literal with my definition of cutting word there…

      Thank you for the creative credit as well. (I also came up with the tagline) I should confess to not actually being a diabetic… I do get my blood tested regularly though – almost every time I visit Tim!

    • #7364
      Tim
      Keymaster

      Yes, I should have mentioned that Dave also came up with the wonderfully tasteless tagline. Sorry Dave – I’ve been living off your uncredited creative work on the blog for the last two years. What a bastard I am!

    • #7368
      Annette A
      Participant

      I belive the cutting word traditionally comes at the end of one of the lines… /pedant
      Summer heat hypo …
      Gives reason to eat ice cream
      Or maybe sweeties

      [where I have utilised the western version of the cutting word, and inserted an ellipsis as a break, as the original japanese verse writers intended the kireji to be. Not that I’m not busy or anything atm…]

    • #7370
      Annette A
      Participant

      Dx means despair
      Enlightenment sought on web
      Hope renewed – Shoot-Up!

    • #7371
      Hairy Gnome
      Participant

      You want me to write something as anal as haikus? I’ve barely mastered the subtle art of limericks, so you have to be joking!

    • #7379
      Cecile
      Participant

      @teloz: Get yourself a pair of stilts, then you’ll be high enough to haiku ;)

    • #7380
      Cecile
      Participant

      that lofty BG –
      shoot up too much insulin…
      Sweat pouring down from

      (proof that insulin-dependent diabetes is PMS/Perpetual Motion Syndrome)

    • #7381
      Cecile
      Participant

      Lantus is bottom*;
      while fairy-like “fast stuff” flits
      up towards above.

      *Or Bottom, ’cause Lant-ass does the donkey-work :D

    • #7383
      Cecile
      Participant

      Clixed finger is squeezed:
      in a blink, sleeves are speckled
      with red polka dots.

    • #7384
      Cecile
      Participant

      No chance of respite
      for digital pepper pots:
      my logbook craves spice.

    • #7388
      Annette A
      Participant

      @ckoei:
      >Clixed finger is squeezed:
      >in a blink, sleeves are speckled
      >with red polka dots.

      Oh yes, I just had a vision of pricking, squeezing, ‘huh? No blood?’ Squeezing harder, fountain of blood droplets. WTF? :-D

    • #7410
      Cecile
      Participant

      @annette: This inspirational little geyser erupted last Friday at a restaurant – covering both sleeves & a slice of (goremet?) bread : the closest I’ll come to being a goremand, like you finger lickers :P

    • #7412
      Cecile
      Participant

      Eating & drinking
      heapsful & gallons galore…
      Devouring D is born.

    • #7413
      Cecile
      Participant

      Yawn until tears drop:
      such down in the dumps drizzle
      needs big macaroons.

    • #7415
      Cecile
      Participant

      Foulbroody T-cells
      scupper pancreatic Bs;
      pee-hive* weeps honey.

      *bladder

    • #7416
      Cecile
      Participant

      Blest be scaled eyes’ crust-
      acean discrimination:
      counting only crabs.

    • #7422
      Cecile
      Participant

      My wounded war zones
      (belly, bum and fingertips)
      hanker for cease-fire…

    • #7425
      Tim
      Keymaster

      He he! These are as good as the limericks!

    • #7426
      Cecile
      Participant

      @tim: I’m extremely affronted by your sexist laughter – seeing that 11 of the crop of 16 were composed by females…your chuckles should be reformed to she she he ;)

    • #7427
      Tim
      Keymaster

      Sorry Cecile – I hang my s(h)exist head in shame :-(

    • #7432
      Cecile
      Participant

      Betas banished from
      Langerhansian islets.
      Water(into)loo*.

      *and maw

    • #7433
      Cecile
      Participant

      Damn haemoglobin…
      That tattling, bloody telltale
      blabs out all sweet sins!

    • #7436
      Cecile
      Participant

      Three point one four one
      five nine two six five three five
      eight nine seven nine…

      (proof that a haiku’s BG remains low after eating a piece…)

    • #7456
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      New poetic verse
      Nearly distracts me from pain
      Bruised injection site

    • #7460
      Cecile
      Participant

      Hypoglycaemic
      puppeteer pulls at my strings.
      Jig a jerky dance.

    • #7466
      Cecile
      Participant

      Diabetes sings:
      bass booms and soprano squeaks…
      Seeking middle C.

    • #7487
      Cecile
      Participant

      Blood sugar bonsai ✄
      prune shoots that spring forth all day,
      pining for the sky.

    • #7513
      Cecile
      Participant

      A yellow sunrise:
      wake up with ear full of gall*.
      Down…and up too fast.

      *euphemism for “bilious, daffodilly vomit”

    • #7540
      Cecile
      Participant

      Blunt thorn in my side,
      this needle used many times
      to pin up pot luck.

    • #7658
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Absence of mortar…
      What would keep me five bricks high?
      CGM ivy!

    • #7860
      lizz
      Participant

      Actually the plural of haiku is haiku. And in Japanese, words have more syllables. The word Geisha for instance in English has two syllables, in Japanese, three. A Japanese haiku is thus much simpler, very spare, with very few words. An English haiku with about 12 syllables is more in the spirit of a Japanese haiku.

      I haven’t written any haiku about diabetes! I find it hard to write about my own problems. But I’ve enjoyed reading.

    • #7864
      Tim
      Keymaster

      @lizz – ah, a pedantic, picky point – you’ll fit right in here! ;-)

    • #7865
      lizz
      Participant

      Lol. Pedantic, picky, moi? You are so right.

    • #7939
      lizz
      Participant

      30 degrees
      my shortest long shorts
      hide my needle

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