Short Diabetic Poems

Short Diabetic Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Diabetic by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Diabetic by length and keyword.


Balance In the Middle

My blood loves sugar
my liver loves gall
your kiss is sweet
your nausea is salt
I'm diabetic for you
in the mix of everything
I'm not bad
at all !


Premium Member Screw Job

My old friend who is a diabetic
Decided to become an ascetic
  Denies himself pleasure
  Even in small measure
Can't even screw himself ~ How pathetic!
Form: Limerick

Pathetic Skeptic Who Was Diabetic

We knew Trump was purely pathetic;
Also leaping, lewd and lascivious skeptic; 
Bizarre;
Should see scar;
He had been overweight and a diabetic.

Jim Horn
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Form: Limerick

Pathetic Skeptic Who Was Diabetic

We knew Trump was purely pathetic;
Also leaping, lewd and lascivious skeptic; 
Bizarre;
Should see scar;
He had been overweight and a diabetic.

Jim Horn
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Form: Limerick

Premium Member Cupcakes

It smells of delicious red velvet cupcakes in the air.
Even though I am diabetic I am also without care,
For I much rather enjoy life as though it is not there.
Form: Sijo


Ketoacidosis

supercala diabetic ketoacidosis 
if you get it you will know it
 don't be so precocious
supercala diabetic ketoacidosis
um diddle dee um diddle lie
lose a foot, lose an eye
eat good foods, take your meds
maybe you wont die
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Satisfying

John's a diabetic
And should avoid eating anything sweet
I found it pathetic
And made some biscuits for a treat
I made two dozen biscuits
And put them in the oven on a tray
After I cooked them
John ate a dozen straight away
Form: Rhyme

Two of a Kind

misplace this misplace that
and we’re both fighting fat

we’re two of a kind
you are quite a find

we’re not the Odd Couple
mine green hers purple

she’s diabetic
my brain went static

life’s full of ups and downs
found love in a sea of clowns
Form: Couplet

WHAT NO SUGAR MEANS

What no sugar means
Is that it’s sugar free
For a diabetic
It’s very important
But when something
That’s supposed to be
Sugar free has sweetener
Inside, like fructose or
Sweet and low, it’s 
A misrepresentation of
A sugar free product, plus
It’s bad for diabetics
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Sweet

Sugar is sweet But, too much of it makes you sick And may die diabetic and despondent. Love is sweet But too much of it makes you insolvent And may die too dependent. Better moderate and milder As it makes you somber But the sweetest word ever Is LOVING YOU forever!
Form: Rhyme

Cucumber

Cucumber

early morning
I had to eat something 
found a cucumber in the fridge
that was otherwise bare.
Peeled and boiled them added a bit of butter
and a pepper
stirred well when cooked and I had 
mashed cucumber.
It tasted terrific a wonder for a diabetic 
I have to remember til next time 
the cupboard is bare.

Butter

Pardon my parlay
but I haven't invested
or infested the time to
infiltrate or be a tart

only because 
sweet tarts are much
maligned
for tempo of mandible
treatment
and cavities of the 
soul

so when the schucking of skin
begins again
I'll wish for corn syrup
splashing all over
your wheat husk

I am diabetic.
Form:

Eggs

Easter, and the mystery
unfolds in the hearts
of chocolate rabbits.
Some still believe,
in the capacity of eggs to
resurrect joy,
or they race within chicken runs,
to celebrate a pre-diabetic date,
while other's only offer up
painted shells.
The mystery will continue,
just as long
as we play these games,
of hide and seek.

Mariupol's Child

Grandma doesn't like to talk
so I don't ask why they don't
bury Grandpa stuck with us in basement?
Grandpa was diabetic and went into coma when
the bombs kept falling and we all bend our heads in prayer.
Grandma doesn't move anymore and I just watch her
disappear.
I'm hungry, cold, and bored. They want to kill us all, don't know why.
war

Premium Member The New Neighbor

We fascinated the neighborhood. finding things to meet us, the new neighbors. Could I perhaps borrow a cup of sugar? We apologize for the lack of cups. Laughing, I am using my own cups. But none of us consume sugar. Are you diabetic, by any chance? We are... diabolical, to be sure.
Written: November 19, 2022
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.

Temptation

if when I walk 
on concrete sidewalks 

stop at the bakery window 
full with pastry

covered in chocolate 
and creams 

I notice 
in the reflection 

a new roundness 
to my frame

and I begin  
to worry 

about You
the new medication 
 
this heaviness 
in my chest 

just keep walking
your parents are diabetic


By Mike Butler

My Guilty Pleasure

dearest Eve... please forgive... your poem... delectable... your chocolates... delicious... if i wasn't diabetic... the lot I would of finished... so i'll paint you a picture... call it payment in kind... with words I keep... for special occasions... like saying sorry... for my guilty pleasure hoping you'll be kindness... personified...
fun

It's Orange

Where do you begin with the colour of his skin?


Tandoori or mandarin

A rumour it's satsuma

Squash or is it pumpkin

Shade of homemade lucozade

Sun bed head sheen
 
(B)utter nut or tangerine

Is his swede (head) indeed

Not being too mean

Aesthetic a diabetic peed

The same as well swede (turnip)

Parrot it's carrot...bloody ruddy orange!
Form: Rhyme

The Day of a Diabetic

The pace
  I walked for 50 minutes
 Inhaling fumes of cars, it is like
 Living in a roundabout
The see air on the seventh floor
At my flat, the air is healthier
But I walk every day because
It is suitable for my diabetes
And it makes me slimmer
Only the walk makes me hungry.
It makes me wonder if
The great and late president Chirac
Walked the street of Paris?

Premium Member Killing Her With Kindness

He kept buying her sugar because she liked it.
He bought her pies, cakes, puddings and fast foods too.
She was a diabetic, so these goodies were bad for her.
But it made her feel so good.

For a few minutes until her blood sugar elevated to The Twilight Zone.
“Maybe this will do the trick,” He said.
Bringing in sixteen additional bags of goodies filled with white sugar.

What Is Love

Shakespeare wrote that "Love is blind"

Lennon told us "Love is the flower you've got to let grow"

Proust believed "Love is space and time measured by the heart"

Segal said  "Love means never having to say you're sorry"

Yesterday, 
when I told a pharmacist that 
I have to inject my diabetic 
cat with insulin twice a day, 
she said "that sir, is truly love"

Who to believe?

Craving

That is finally summer now
That God brought for us
And now I am having a craving
For diabetic Ice cream
It has no sugar added
So I can have as many
As I want
That is also a treat for me
It is night time now
It is too bad that the day is over
I am going finally to sleep
Tomorrow will be another day
I will be up first thing in the morning
Working for my Father
Writing some poems
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Premium Member I Could Die at Any Second

I am seventy-one
I could die at any second.
I tell this to my nurse.
She says “stop!”
She calls me silly.
I am seventy-one.
I like it.

I had a peanut butter cup and creamed soda for breakfast I say.
the nurse does not respond.
I am sure I am a diabetic I tell her.
I have ballooned up like a fat sow these last few years.
She laughs.
“Stop it! “She says.
“You forgot to call me silly,” I tell her.
age

Cannibal

Stained by blood my lips of red,
and diabetic sweet.
Full of flesh from inside out,
of all the souls I eat.
Trembled true and full of fear,
of guilt that's laid upon me.
I cannot change my course of time,
for time will not disarm me.
Tattoos become the marks and scars,
upon my flesh to handle.
Smaller is the head of each,
to me has is the animal.
Picking through the meat in teeth,
I am for worse the cannibal...
Form: Rhyme

Date Syrup

Dark as departure 
and sweet 
as reunion, it’s a 
romantic 
syrup resembling
an expat’s 
life. A sublime 
state of
sweetness like a 
wife’s wait.  

It’s forbidden to
a diabetic 
patient, but who 
commits an 
ecstatic sin, violating.
Rapture of
now is in a negative 
impulse.

The expat squeezes
dry desert
for sweet syrup.
One sip 
tempts into another.

First appeared in The Literary Hatchet (Pear Tree Press, US).

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