Giant Pancreas: Nikki B.: Costa Rica bound/Pancreas says, not so fast/Stuck here in a gown
Mini Pancreas: Alecia: Islet cells I miss/Will have to fight without you/Pump is second best
Pancreas Buttons and Pins: Laura: Pancreas revolt/Permanent vacation too/wish I was there *sigh*
If you're listed above, please email me with your full name and mailing address by clicking here!
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It's the first day of Give All The Things! Ready? Let's do this!
Products: Not one, not two, but THREE plushy pancreas prizes. Grand prize is a giant plush, second place gets the mini plush, and third place receives buttons and pins!
Made possible by: I Heart Guts
Why you want this: Because you have a sense of humor; because these pancreases are worth far more than the one in your body anyway, and because they will make you smirk, smile, laugh, and squeal with joy. Probably all at the same time. Awkward.
To enter today's contest: Put your creative thinking caps on! Leave a comment below with your best pancreas-related haiku.
"Really?"
Really.
Here, I'll get us started.
My pancreas sleeps
It cares not that I need it
Long to gut-punch him
See? Easy peasy. Just remember - it's 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second line, and 5 again for the third line. Haiku comments need to be time-stamped by 8:00pm CST tonight to qualify, and this is open to U.S. residents only (not every contest will be, though, so hang with me) - I'll update this post with the three winners, who will be chosen via random number generator. Remember that Give All The Things! is intended for people with diabetes and their caregivers - if you don't have diabetes, congrats. That's your prize. ;)
For more information on what "Give All The Things" is about, visit the original post.
Lauren's Pancreas
ReplyDeletePut itself on a time out
Mom says: Get working!
Pancreatic love:
hard for non-D's to fathom
But, oh: to feel it!
Oh man, I am supposed to be working. Now I cannot stop.
Hello pancreas
Would you spit out some 'slin if
islet you just be?
Pancreas revolt
ReplyDeletePermanent vacation too
wish I was there *sigh*
My pancreas does
ReplyDeleteNot work for a living, no.
It's a free-loader.
Woke up really high.
ReplyDeleteThis put me in a big funk.
Test, hundred!?! Slam Dunk.
It's rarely easy,
ReplyDeletebut who needs a pancreas!
They're overrated.
My pancreas sleeps,
just like I want to right now
in my post-lunch fog...
Ok, so there are two! And even though technically I live in Italy, I'm still a US resident! I definitely have a US address where a prize could arrive :) Or, if I must be thrown out, at least I enjoyed writing my haikus.
Holly is up working
ReplyDeleteHer pancreas should be too
Wake up in there, you!
Also, apparently I subliminally adopted the first line of your haiku for my second.....oops. Blame it on my post-lunch excursion....
ReplyDeleteThat is within the rules. I'll allow it. ;)
DeleteAnd if you have a US address we can ship to, you're in! Good luck!
Pancreas floating
ReplyDeleteNot getting much accomplished
Like me on Monday
Function? HA! Puh-lease.
ReplyDeleteI do whatever I want
Turquoise Dinosaur.
(listen, I haven't had any coffee yet. And who doesn't want to think about a turquoise dinosaur in the morning?)
Why must you tease me?
ReplyDeleteSpotty bursts of insulin
Pancreas of mine
No good lazy bum
ReplyDeleteTook early retirement
I do all the work
(I was determined to write haiku expressing how I feel about my pancreas without actually using the word "pancreas")
Weird Al sang an ode
ReplyDeleteto pancrei; but not mine.
I weep bitterly.
--Caroline/@carobanano
PS. :D !!!
Oi vey pancreas
ReplyDeleteWhy you no work anymore?
Troll face is angry
Pump buddies are fun
and pwds are the best
broken pancreas
Yes this is silly. :D
Diabetes Sucks,
ReplyDeleteBut this cute contest does not.
Cute plush pancreas!
Why, pancreas, why
ReplyDeleteDo you not work? Just get it
Together, you slob.
Dearest Pancreas
ReplyDeleteYou worked for 34 years
I took advantage.
This is my official apology to my poor challenged pancreas. I'm a late blooming type 1 :)
Defunct pancreas
ReplyDeleteAin't as fun as you might think
Won't give me nothin'
Lazy pancreas
ReplyDeleteTaking the easy way out
Karma is a b*tch
This is my new favorite poem! And I got a BA in poetry, so that's saying something!
DeleteRejected by me
ReplyDeleteInsulin found a new home
Refrigerator
Islet cells I miss
ReplyDeleteWill have to fight without you
Pump is second best
Stupid pancreas
ReplyDeleteWhy'd you become so lazy?
Now I work hard and you don't
Hello? Beta Cells?
ReplyDeleteOh, Islets of Langerhans?
What happened to you?
Turquoise dinosaurs
ReplyDeleteAre part of life without a
working pancreas.
heck yeah.
DeleteI never knew you
ReplyDeleteBut now I really miss you
Good bye, Pancreas
My pancreas is
ReplyDeleteA pink box on my hip now
Since mine works no more.
Zombie Pancreas
ReplyDeleteHow useless you are to me
someday will you wake?
Her small finger bleeds
ReplyDeleteI squint and hope for the best
Relief and more sleep
Ice cream for Sarah
Means less sleep for her mom
Well worth happy smiles
Pancreas busted.
ReplyDeleteFake one better than nothing.
I want some pancakes.
Darling pancreas,
ReplyDeleteI would like you much better
if you would just work.
Cute and green and blue,
your plush adorable friend
brings more joy than you.
langerhan Islets
ReplyDeleterogue T brutally attacked
adios Control
I'm not in the US so I can't play but I'm busting a gut (pancreas?) reading these.
ReplyDeletei want for christmas
ReplyDeletesparkly working new
spark up pancreas
Two buggars kaput
ReplyDeletePancreataista yo
I’ve got it covered
Simple drop of blood
ReplyDeleteYour chemistry demanding
Power over you
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ReplyDeleteFor once I never knew,
ReplyDeleteA pancreas haiku- Oh,
wish it wasn't you...
(to my 12yr old son...)
Love you pancreas,
ReplyDeleteAlways so close to my heart.
Gimme some sugar...
Pancreoticaly challenged.
ReplyDeleteMulti-tasking gland
ReplyDeleteAre you a workaholic?
Or just a showoff?
Feel bad posting here
As my pancreas works fine
But I want the prize! :)
Thanks for joining the fun, Tim! So sorry, but Give All The Things! prizes are intended for folks with diabetes and their caretakers. (Check the promotion's setup in the original post: http://www.textingmypancreas.com/2012/11/giveallthethings.html)
DeleteYou bring up a good point, though: I should mention this in each contest post. Noted!
LOL, no worries. I came here from the I Heart Guts tweet and there was no mention of it there (or I possibly missed it). Thanks for giving me the opportunity to write a goofy haiku. Good luck to all bona fide entrants!
DeleteThe stupid virus
ReplyDeleteThat attacked those Langerhans
Wish it were not so
My pancreas rocks
ReplyDeleteit digests proteins for me
I I I workout
LMFAO reference intended
LMFAO, indeed. :D
DeletePancreas is hungry
ReplyDeleteIt desires some protein
I feed it a lot
remember that time
ReplyDeleteI found just butter in the
butter compartment?
Silly ol' pancreas
ReplyDeleteIt enjoys doing nothing
That's why I'm pumping!
Broken pancreas
ReplyDeletefor sixteen years. So I could
use a new cute one.
my daughter lives strong
ReplyDeleteher pancrease fails to work
replaced by a pump
Friended on Facebook
ReplyDeleteMy Pancreas Has Blocked Me
Why Must it Mock Me?
First my pancreas
ReplyDeletefailed, now hers has followed suit
matching pumps (not shoes)
I don't usually enter contests but these plushy pancreases (pancreaii??) are too darn cute!!
All day and all night
ReplyDeleteI pretend that I am you
Pancreas, you bum.
Cagey pancreas,
ReplyDeleteAre you working or dying?
Damn antibodies.
Three insulin pens
In the refridgerator,
I don't need you yet.
(I was recently diagnosed T1, but I'm still honeymooning and not on insulin yet. And yes, the second one is only peripherally pancreatic, but I couldn't resist using the word "refrigerator" in a haiku.)
Worthless pancreas
ReplyDeleteYou lumpy lazy organ!
Good thing I can pump.
Hormone production
ReplyDeleteIslets of Langerhan cells
Secrete insulin
Partially defunct
ReplyDeleteStupid pancreas
Grow me some islets.
Different to yours
ReplyDeleteMy Pancreas sleeps and snores
But I still love it
Even tho my pancreas is "worthless" its still priceless to me, makes me who I am! I live in New Zealand but have a US address you can ship too also! Yaaay! Am saving for a trip over there next year so if I do win anything I can pick it up when I get there.
Cheers!
Shonelle
By my 10 year-old T1D daughter:
ReplyDeleteMy pancreas stopped
Now I take a lot of shots
I want one that works
Please tell her I said, "Nicely done!"
DeleteNow playing the part
ReplyDeleteOf my daughter's pancreas
A tired couple
I am a D-Mom
ReplyDeleteI am not a great poet
Nor a pancreas
(Would love to give stuffed pancreas to my daughter for Christmas...though a working one would be even better!)
Thought of another one...same theme
ReplyDeleteAll the world's a stage
My girl's the understudy
Of a pancreas :(
I wear my glasses
ReplyDeleteIs my pancreas four too?
I wear my blue pump
Costa Rica bound
ReplyDeletePancreas says, not so fast
Stuck here in a gown
(My son was diagnosed T1D 3 days before a school trip to Costa Rica.)
Pancreas beware
ReplyDeleteI am a superhero
Armed with insulin
Danny is my 4year old T1 REAL superhero....and I make sure he knows it everyday!
Jacob's music rocks
ReplyDeletePancreas is the organ
he can play no more
Blood Sugar Creeps Up
ReplyDeleteWhat the donut didn't know
My pump basals well
I want my
ReplyDeleteI want my
I want my Pizza
I need my
I need my
I need my Blue Pump
For my pancreas cannot come out to play
Not a haiku! But I like it.
DeleteMy Pancreas quit
ReplyDeleteI take daily injections
Broken beta cells
Fingers are real sore
ReplyDeleteRed drops rushing out the tip
Blood sugar is high
Since the contest is over, I'm going with another poetry form:
ReplyDeleteMy pancreas does do a lot...
for blood sugars, though, it does not.
Since those beta cells sleep
and don't make a peep,
my Animas sure hits the spot.
I have writer's block
ReplyDeletewhen a contest's on the line
now I feel witty
poor sweet pancreas
attacked for no good reason
now just taking space
love my pancreas
wish my kid's still worked like mine
alas it does not
it's very hard work
the job of a pancreas
must be why he quit