It’s taken us a few months to get everything worked out for our computer contest, but we’ve finally gotten all of our entries up. Please VOTE for your favorite poem. Voting closes in a week! The winners of the contest receive:

The Grand Prize Winner receives:

-A Platinum Game Pack from Pop Cap Games – This features 18 Games from Pop Cap Games worth over $80+ dollars

Runner Up Receives:

-Your choice of any three Pop Cap Casual Computer Games

The Three Honorable Mention Winners Receive:

-Your choice of any Pop Cap Casual Computer Game

To check out all of the poems (Click on a Poem Name):

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Name: Brandon Pittman
Age: 27
Type of MD: Beckers MD
Location: Greenville, NC
Poem category: Sentimental

Motivation

How can I succeed
In a world full of obstacles
Back in 93
Don’t remember the day
A doctor told me I had MD
My mom cried wondering is this how its supposed to be
My son has a disability
To young to process the diagnosis
Just knew I was different
And so did they
Scrapped knees cause I would fall when I tried to play
My mom would pray
Asking for answers
No cancer or anything fatal
Just an enemy trying to disable
The construct of me
J. Brandon P.
Through the years
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Name: Jennifer Roberts
Age: 20
Type of MD: Ullrich Muscular Dystrophy
Location: Sapulpa, Oklahoma
Poem Category: General

I Wish

I wish people would see me, not my disability.
I wish people would look at my face when they talk to me.
But instead they look at my chair and they just stare.
Why can’t people see what’s on the inside and not what’s on the outside?
Why can’t they just look at me and not the disease?
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Name: Kevin Rudolph
Age: 35
Type of MD: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Poem Category: Love

Sunshine

Sheila, sweet, kind,aura beaming
like a cold winter brightened and warmed by the sun.
Her friends call her Sunshine,
smile flows ear to ear brightening around her with a never ending angelic glow
releasing her inner beauty,
accentuating her outer beauty,
penetrating me through her glowing smile and twinkling green eyes
sending a warm feeling that chills me
like getting hit by a cool spring breeze in the winter.
A burst of warmth of cool tingles rushes through my body
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Name: Chris Cusack
Age: 40
Type of MD: SMA 2/3
Location: Watford, UK
Poetry category: humour

GOD & COFFEE

This morning God stuck my Coffee mug to the table
So I tugged and tugged as hard as I was able

Until he finally let my bloody cup go
In a torrent of boiling hot scalding Joe

Sometimes I’m really inclined to think God’s sense of humour bloody stinks

So sitting here dripping with warm coffee
My entire family staring at me

I think I should make a stand against God
And let the world know he’s sometimes a sod

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Name: Heather Richardson
Age: 30
Type of MD: Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Location: Jacksonville, NC
Poem Category: General

Winter Flower

In a blur of white
I peek out at the world.
A spot of color
In a dreary existence.

My bottom stands strong,
If not tall.
My arms outstretched
For others to catch me.

My color shows my strength.
I glance out at the sky.
The bare treetops look down
On me with disdain.

They wish me to be the same;
To change for them.
“I am who I am,” I say.
“I am who I will remain.”

I have survived your dreary existence.
You blend into nothingness;
Into malcontent;
Until you feel it right to grow again.

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Name: Michelle Sabino
Age: 29
Specific Type of MD: SMA Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Type Unknown
Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts
Poem Category: General

Darkness

Darkness, in the still of night,
a forbidden place, omitting light,
what lurks in this darkness deep,
that which causes my heart to leap,
in this dismal and murky place,
will we meet face to face,
I can feel it drawing near,
through me runs a chill of fear,
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Name: Steven Heinig
Age: 40
Type of MD: Congenital Myopathy
Location: New York, New York
Poem Category: General

“Attitude”

It could be this
it could be that
it could be summer
it could be fall
it could rain on water
there may be sunshine
on your candle,
on your light bulb,
on your magazine
but this is that and that is this and that is that
a simple matter of fact is a matter of form
but does it really change to measure change,
to see change,
to make change,
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Name: Kristin Brady
Age: 59
Type of MD: Myotonic MD
Location: South Bend, IN
Name of Poem: Indiana Blues

I’ve got the Indiana Blues,
As blue as a woman can be.
Got the Indiana Blues,
As Blue as a woman can be.
Cause the Indiana Casinos,
got the best of me.

Can’t go to the doctor,
Cause I’m always broke.
Never can see a doctor,
and that ain’t no joke.
Cause the Indiana casinos,
always make me broke.

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Entry Name: Cara Gilsig
Age: 34
Tye of MD: MMD 2
Location: Pointe Claire, Quebec
Poem Category: General

Cara’s Poem

Muscles are strong
as they are young
Pain moves in
as if poked with a pin
Doctors agree
we all have a plea
Help us survive
to have happy lives
We all have hearts
that cannot be torn apart
We yell and scream
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