Best Diabetes Poems
Below are the all-time best Diabetes poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of diabetes poems written by PoetrySoup members
Diabetes I Hate YouDishearten me if that is your will
I have seen countless others dance in your shadows
Abandoned, alone within your grasp
Bested through your touch
Exhausted they fell
Too tired...
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Categories:
diabetes, sick,
Form:
Acrostic
Sugar Daddy - Two LensesChildhood Days
I’d heap spoonfuls of sugar in my tea
I wouldn’t drink it without it you see
That sweet syrupy drink
Wasn’t poured down the sink
Every single drop...
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Categories:
diabetes, father daughter, health, humorous,
Form:
Limerick
EileenEileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and...
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Categories:
diabetes, for her, mom, ,
Form:
Rhyme
Two WolvesEach of us have two wolves living inside us
One wants to eat burritos
and watch horror movies.
The other wants to walk about
in its underpants all...
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Categories:
diabetes, animal, death, funny, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Pirouettes on the Ivories~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I wrote this poem as a remembrance of my mother. Even when macular degeneration and diabetes took her eyesight, she continued playing her beloved piano....
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Categories:
diabetes, mother, music, pain,
Form:
Quatrain
They Think They KnowPeople say that they know,
Then she asks them is that so?
Do you know how I feel?
Do you measure every meal?
What it's like to take a...
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Categories:
diabetes, angst, education, health, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Over the Hill and BeyondAge fifty comes and you thought forty bad?
Some little aches and pains will start to fill
your weary body, but don’t be too sad,
for you can...
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Categories:
diabetes, age,
Form:
Sonnet
Life's Lesson For YouThis is GOD'S GIFT to YOU
Tell yourself upon waking everyday god is merciful and kind
He will not put anything on me today I can't handle
Live...
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Categories:
diabetes, courage, god, inspirational, miracle,
Form:
Prose
Sweet ThingsWhy is sweetness a target for the buggiest frights?
Sweets do attract the sweet but
honey can come with a sting.
You see, the dern ants are in...
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Categories:
diabetes, funnysweet, sweet,
Form:
Free verse
Paula Deen the Butter QueenPaula Deen the Butter Queen
By Elton Camp and María Camp
She is the butter makers’ delight
To nutritionists, she is a fright
Krispy Kreme with eggs and bacon
Great...
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Categories:
diabetes, food, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
Erectile DysfunctionOn a dark Friday night, creature crawling
The darkness silenced, frogs in swamps shuts
Croaking and the hissing create muted at once
To perceive the whistlers...
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Categories:
diabetes, allegory,
Form:
Quatrain
The Sin of SlothNamed sin, the act of sloth we often scorn;
observing, the word lazy comes to mind.
Real sloths, with slow metabolisms, born;
but our health reasons, oft...
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Categories:
diabetes, conflict, confusion, health, sin,
Form:
Rhyme
The Inflated NationThe Inflated Nation!
Americans growing wider by the minute!
Is there a Russian collusion behind this illusion?
(Now, there's a breaking news headline
with real meat in it)
(Mashed potatoes,...
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Categories:
diabetes, food, health, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
For Sometimes Love Is Not EnoughHey sugar I’m defriending you
The time has come to say adeiu
A long time pal who undermines
the plans I make to change my life.
Sweetly in...
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Categories:
diabetes, sweet,
Form:
Free verse
Black Cat So Sweet and DearOne Christmas, hubbie lost his job,
and we were feeling sad
when at the pound, we found a cat
that helped me to feel glad.
We never knew what...
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Categories:
diabetes, cat,
Form:
Rhyme