Piano: Acrotrion

By Hugh Throne

This book provides a poetic awakening to the eyes of readers. It brings to life a new vision with the use of acronyms and a vista created with alphabetic letters. This introduces readers to a new Poetry Highway with noticeable designs and poetic points of view in stories to reside in memory.

It takes an acronymic AIM: An Imagery Manufacturer to urge your mental moves to reach, read and recommend this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: May 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781491898697

Hugh Throne

Hugh Thorne is a songwriter and record producer. One who came up with an astounding idea to write a new genre of poetry. He did it with purpose, perspective and a mute piano portrayal in acronyms to present “Poetry In A New Outfit” in ACROTRION. I hope it will be accepted by the minds of readers as it was by my mind. The picture is he and his wife, Phyllis. They live in Hartsdale, New York. I am proud to be his friend, Austin.

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Published by AuthorHouse 05/26/2015

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Contents

Poem

Speed

Abuse

Age

Death

Direct

Educate a Child

Spirit

The Pillars of Faith

The Rough Road

Inspiration

Moments of a Dream in Birth

Backcountry

Borders

Broken

A Will to Write

Awesome

A Reflection Lives On

Change

Control

Crime

Dreams

Failure

Foreign Language

Friend

Graduate

Grow

Learn to Wind

Library

Life

Life and Love

Money

Music and Songwriter

Names

Obese

Once Upon a Time

Pray

Racism

Rise

School

College

Secrets

Share

Rumors

Smart

Streetwise

Water

Bridge

Teacher

The Holy Bible

The Road Taken

The Way You Are

Traveler

Poetry

Broken

Backcountry

Streetwise

The Road Taken

Acknowledgments

My AIM: Admiration In Mind is stepping out to openly express thanks to my wife, Phyllis; my brother, Ken; my daughters Cheryle and Michele; my stepdaughter, Lisa; my blood brother, Howard; and my sister-in-law and editor, Tricia King-Edwards.

—SMACK—

My GIFT: Gratitude In Friendly Terms goes out to Francis Apicella, Lawrence Edmund, Venice Lewis, Lyn Halper, my family, friends, and neighbors.

Preface

In this book, I am introducing the world to a new presentation of poetry. This new style emphasizes a form of poetic writing that leaves an impact! One late evening in 2012, I was alone, writing the lyrics to a song I had composed. I decided to read the lyrics and comply with the melodic structure of the song. In reading it, I realized that it was impressively moving with the rising relevance of a poem. The idea to write a poem then came to me immediately. I wrote a few lines down and then decided to create something challenging as a new type of poetry. The idea came to me to make the initial letters of the first and last words on every line the same and be capitalized. I later created an identification for this type of poetry.

Acrotrion is a mixture of acronym, poetry, and vision. I joined a literary workshop and found my new poetry was accepted by many as a new avenue for poets. I continued to work with this idea and realized that I was falling more and more in love with it. I decided to write a book with poems in acrotrionic style. A few days later, I went to the library to research different genres of poetry. I discovered a type of poetry that uses the successive letters of a name to portray an idea with a different title. The initial letters of each line did not correspond with the sequential letters of the title. The initial letters were only on the left side of the poetry and not on the first and last words of every line as in Acrotrion.

This new type of verse structure creates an alphabetic vista with the identical initial letters of words—the first and last words on every line – to mold sensible statements relevant to the poem. I want readers to realize the partnership of words residing in a word like AIM, that makes a sensible statement, when acronymic attachments are applied to the successive letters of that word stating: An Interesting Melody. This can create a goody-goody imagery with a melody. The first thing I want a reader to focus on is this type of poem, where the title is at the head and on both sides of every verse of the poem. Then, the reader may focus on the realistic description or essay that follows, which is optional. It is a personal concept and description of a feeling with no desire to mentally or emotionally disturb anyone.

Over the years, I have played with this idea by sending messages to my daughters, especially on their birthday cards.

This type of poetry is designed to stir one’s imagination and tickle the curiosity of a reader to understand and write this type of poetry. I hope you will love this new style of poetry, Acrotrion, as much as I do.

Introduction to Acrotrion

Acrotrion, a new form of poetry, is a mixture of acronym, poetry, and vision that deviates from the more traditional and abstract forms of poetry. It portrays a poetic vista, with successive letters of the title on both sides of a verse. This structure enlightens and enhances the poetry as well as adding texture to the concept and appearance of each poem.

Every line of this type of poetry starts and ends with the same initial letters of the first and last words.

Example: The title is EYES.

EYES

Every human being has two Eyes.

Yes, they do to see hue and Yonder.

Every day comes with an Evening,

So the eyes can see the Sunset.

The initial letters of the first and last words on every line are the same and capitalized to highlight the significance and maintain poetic relevance to the title. This is the basic structure of acrotrionic format in this type of poetry.

One can write a poem in Acrostic style with added acrotrionic lines anywhere to add versatility. The first step is to use a word, phrase, or name as the title. The structure is applied with the successive letters of the title corresponding to the next lines of the verse to identify the poem as Acrotrion shown in the example. This new structure has been created to stir and stimulate the imagination with the words of the title, which the dictionary defines as a legitimate word. Acronymic attachments add a new flavor to the words or title, giving it dimensional dynamics. The words or title can be expressed in an innovative way to widen one’s vision, understanding, and ability to see what it says. For instance, a sensible acronymic interpretation selected from the successive letters of the words or title can expand one’s visual image, invite inclusive thoughts, arouse curiosity, and capture the interest of a reader’s senses to see the words or title as a form of enlightenment.

This type of acronymic configuration immediately focuses on the value structure of the words used and the many possible arrangements of the words or title that can be added to firmly plant an image in the reader’s mind as a new concept. Poetic patterns are easily created in acrotrionic style by using the letters of the title in a vertical layout, standing as sentry-like images on both sides of each line. This redesigns the poetry from a traditional poem to acrotrionic mode with a sprinkling of aphorism, didacticism, and realism in the formation of a story. It opens a mental door to an imaginary room inundated with acronymic ideas and invaluable initialism to introduce a new insight to the reader.

My poems will attempt to take you on a journey. Consider yourself walking in a poetry-and-writers mall, one that has rows of poems, acronymic attachments, and essay writings in new outfits, standing at show windows designed as pages to attract readers and grasp their attention and interest to see a new POP: Presentation Of Poetry, in an effort to bring everyone a SMILE and to hear them say, "It Simply Means I Love Everything at the mall."

There are one or two sensible phrases with acronymic attachments added at the end of the poem to increase its substance and quality to magnify a meaningful concept of the story. This gives a vibrant force to the phrase, which is different in structure and presents a poignant view that increases the impact, purpose, and effect of the title in various forms to reside in one’s imagery. The alphabetic letters of the word(s) or title can be reversed successively to produce a windshield-wiper effect and a positive phrase as an answer or advice. This effect makes the description more striking. The narrative framework presents a view cushioned by simplicity to manifest better understanding of its format.

The process of enhancing the poem is optional. It comes in two forms. Form one is the infusion of added acronymic attachments to the successive letters of the words or title in a juxtapositional format. Form two can be done by highlighting and underlining selective words to make sensible statements relevant to the poem. First, read the entire poem, and