The girls have been out of summer camp and freewheeling, awaiting the start of school for 2 weeks now. Mom’s list of entertainments and distractions is severly waning… Seemed like a good time for a little diabetes-inspired Enlightenment:
Glucose testing –
How I procastinate.
What? I’m not eating yet.
Counting the carbs
of a large bowl of cereal.
Too much, too much.
On a summer’s day,
I inject.
Will there be a bruise?
Round, sweet tablets,
in my mouth
Not the dessert I dreamed of.
And a special nod to my favorite “Excuse Haiku” from Will Femia of What I Clicked:
My blog calls to me.
How can I avoid working?
Let me count the ways.
Ah, yes. That, too.
Poke My Finger Much
50,000 times I’ve shot
And still not leaking
This reminds me of something I probably ought share with you.
Recently a lancing device broke, leaving me with a couple big pieces of plastic and a little metal spring. I put a lancing tip (point) in my jar of bg test strips, in case this ever happens while I’m running and the tip goes into the ditch. I need to keep close tab on my bg while running!
Nick
Haikus have to be 5-7-5. I have a number of them published in the Japanese Cultural News of SoCal and that is the meter they want.
Try this:
“Cut down by a foe,
Smaller than a grain of sand.
Damn that blood sugar.”
Ah, Dr. Roosevelt, but FREESTYLE HAIKU is now prevailing all over the United States. See this link: http://www.youngleaves.org/activities/2000contest.htm , and also the World Haiku Club at http://www.worldhaikuclub.org/pages/linkspoetryorg.html
I suppose I should have labelled mine as such
Haiku requires real skill when doing 5-7-5. None of this “cheating” freestyle stuff Amy. The Doc, Lawyer and PHD is the guru. After all he practices Japanese martial arts.
Captkirk
very nice wording!
Omg 5-7-5 haiku we used to do it in elementary school hahaha im gonna try:
Diabetes Sucks
At times it makes me queezy
God damn Diabetes
Amy,
Free style haiku is to real haiku as a lightning bug is to lightning.
Pisha, Dr.R! I believe in artistic license.
And leave it to the Diabetes Experts to be sticklers about the numbers, ay?
Hiaku is based on the difficult art of putting a complete thought into a strict formula.
If you just want to do haiku try this:
http://www.everypoet.com/haiku/default.htm
As to whether diabetes experts are sticklers about the numbers remember, the process defines the outcome. “There is either do or no do, there is no try.” (Yoda)
Hear Hear Dr R… You hit it on the head you either do it your you die. Seems the politically correct crowd doesn’t like the impact of the cold hard truth. “Yoda is my hero!!!”