• Home
• About
• Products/Services
• Blog
• Resources
• Contact

Posts Tagged ‘My Migraine Connection’

Migraine and Headache Poetry Contest

March 22nd, 2009

The ninth annual Migraine and Headache poetry contest is going on now at MyMigraineConnection.  Teri Robert, patient advocate and Migraine expert on MyMigraineConnection.com, has kicked off the “Putting Our Heads Together” Poetry Contest. The contest seeks poetry on how Migraine disease and/or headache disorders affects your lives. You can submit up to three poems, in any style, for the contest – the more creative, the better! To enter the “Putting Our Heads Together” poetry contest, visit: Poetry Contest.

As those of us who blog on Migraine can tell you, writing is a one of many creative outlets that can help you cope with this disease. Make art out of pain, and help others find fellowship and understanding. Don’t worry if you think you’re not a poet. Poetry is painting pictures with words – hold your brush lightly, don’t think too hard, don’t force it, let it flow. Rhyme, or don’t rhyme, play with the rhythm and music of the language. I hope to see you in the contest!

– Megan

Tags: headache disorders, migraine, My Migraine Connection, poetry, Teri Robert
Posted in Communicating, Weblogs | Comments (0)

Migraine & Headache Poetry Contest

April 15th, 2008

The Putting Our Heads Together Poetry Contest 2008 is in full swing, with lots of moving entries.  The deadline for submissions is April 21.  Teri Robert of My Migraine Connection and Help for Headaches is providing this opportunity to use your creative self-expression to tell the world about the Migraine life, and provide a vent for your feelings while you’re at it.  Please go over to The Contest Link at My Migraine Connection to enter.  Experienced and non-experienced poets both welcome.  If you poke around over there you may find my poem – read it and tell me what you think!  Post your own and tell me you did it.  (A little bit like a scavenger hunt.)  And remember – by Monday, April 21st!

Entries will be judged by MAGNUM, the National Migraine Association and winners will be announced on April 30, in recognition of National Poetry Month.

Poetry is the heaven of the working reason. Poetry is a divination of the spiritual in the things of sense—which expresses itself in the things of sense, and in a delight of sense.  — Jacques Maritain, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Pantheon (1953).

– Megan

Come on out and play!

Tags: My Migraine Connection, poetry
Posted in Communicating | Comments (1)