http://www.mdp-united.org/blog Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:53:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/12/vote-for-your-favorite-poem/ 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-9-motivation/ 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-8-i-wish/ 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-7-sunshine/ 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-6-god-coffee/ 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-5-winter-flower/ 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-4-darkness/ 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-3-attitude/ 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 ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-2-indiana-blues/ 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 to find a beam ... http://www.mdp-united.org/blog/2008/11/poem-1-caras-poem/