Did you know that April is National Poetry Month?
In honor of the occasion, we’ve held a contest among the staff at Insulin Nation to create haikus about Type 1 diabetes:
Here are the winners:
Diabetes, why
do you hate the pancreas?
Tell me the offense.
-Travis Manni, staff writer
Just a little prick
Needles aren’t too scary
Get that test strip out.
-Laura Leone, designer
Aut numquid “-betes”?
Quid cavallari “-betus”?
Pancreas malus.
-Jim Cahill, senior writer
Physicality
Blood sugars bow to fitness
Vigilance saves me
-Rick Jaffe, publisher, SelfRx
Forget you, diabetes
We will live, laugh, eat and drink
Pancreas be damned.
-Leo Rice, operations
HbA1c
Glucose this and bolus that
What are all these words?
-Travis Manni, staff writer
Though it sounds to me
mellifluous mellitus
my heart does not sing.
-Lee Busch, creative director
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