Parkinson’s Disease & Found Poems / Visual Poems

Visual Poetry 100 Found Poems on the Brain: Week One Parkinson’s Disease

Found Poems are poems made, created, tugged into being from the words of others. In this case the words have come from documents about Parkinson’s disease. One way to create a visual poem is to take a found poem and color around the words creating art that reflects the ideas, the poem, or covers over the words and letters not needed for the poem. The mind reads and pulls the words from the page. The heart creates a new pattern as the hand circles, retypes, and colors, engaging the senses in this intuitive delightful process. Where have you found poetry?

Wake Up

Any eyes able to be opened
affect breath remembered
control
dealing with one sign of feeling
want
the brain responsible and significant
all humans must go through
the regular rhythm of the day
wake up

-Found poem / Visual Poetry by Kimberly Burnham. Inspired by Parkinson’s Disease HANDBOOK pg 13 American Parkinson Disease Association, Inc.

Promising Exergame

Another promising rehabilitation
improvement
balance
gait
daily activities
quality of life
Same new
validating worth
potential
exergames
motion capture
motivating potential
do away with seed of boredom
An eye on possible benefits
regaining visual and auditory reaction
rerouting brain activity
for motivation and positive feedback
challenging
adaptable
touch ’n’ explode

-Found poem / Visual Poetry by Kimberly Burnham. Inspired by Parkinson’s disease patient rehabilitation using gaming platforms lessons learnt in International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Science (IJBES), Vol. 2, №4, October 2015 pg 4 by Ioannis Pachoulakis, Nikolaos Papadopoulos and Cleanthe Spanaki, Department of Informatics Engineering, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece and Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Self-Image

Expressive communication
awareness pattern
effectiveness of music
can be used to improve memory
stimulate conversation
by providing a steady rhythmic structure
can be motivating
way to purposefully improve
social interaction cooperation and feelings
self-esteem self-express and creativity
reminiscence of singing
melodic intonations

-Found poem / Visual Poetry by Kimberly Burnham. Inspired by Julie Guy, MT-BC & Angela Neve, MT-BC in Music Therapy & Parkinson’s Disease Fact Sheet pg 2 from the Music Therapy Center, San Diego, California

Alpha-Synuclein

Researchers at National institutes of Health
studied
a large Italian family
three Greek families
a German family
A triplication of a threadlike structure
a protein
an excess of normal
Parkin a protein that normally helps
break down and recycle
PINK1 codes active
mitochondria
several English and Basque families
people in North Africa and the Middle East
GBA gene makes
the enzyme glucocerebrosidase
Seek to understand
tell use about
potential

-Found poem / Visual Poetry by Kimberly Burnham. Inspired by What genes are linked to Parkinson’s disease? Hope Through Research Parkinson’s. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Institutes of Health. pg 4–6.

Decision Making Time

Speed of reaction time
control visual picture
memory visuospatial language
sorting odd man out patterns
design shape detection
Speed of recognition
clock drawing
copying task memory
Verbal fluency
pattern of letter fluency
category fluency
action word fluency
A trend toward performance and solving
decision making time

-Found poem / Visual Poetry by Kimberly Burnham. Inspired by Parkinson’s disease with dementia and dementia with Lewybodies by Richard Camicioli and Nancy Fisher 2005 Neurology Asia 2005; 10 : 79–98. pg 83

Originally published at https://www.linkedin.com on November 1, 2016.