Pony Ride in the Sky

Pony Ride in the Sky

“Pony Ride in the Sky” was my senior year major project – a collection of poetry that, looking back at it now, really captures high school.  I dedicated that project to my grandfather Albert H. Morehead (writer) who met me but who I never really met (since he died the year I was born).  This collection was written during the 1984-85 school
year.

Introduction

This anthology is many things.  It is a collection of my better recent poetry.  It is a cross-section of my experiences.  It is a short history of my emotions.  And in some cases, an
experiment in creativity.  No one mood or theme sustains it – some poems are light verse, others serious, a few diversions in concrete poetry.  Each poem, however, reflets the specific feeling surrounding its creation.  Reading the anthology cover to cover should resemble a journey hinted at by the title poem.

“Pony Ride in the Sky” has been arranged in sections for several reasons.  Though no section is a beginning and end in itself, each covers a time period or emotion.  The reader is left to define these – no “chapter” is titled.  The book has been separated, also, to provide practical breaks in an extended narrative.

Perhaps it is appropriate to begin a student’s anthology with a definition of poetry by T.S. Eliot, “not the assertion that something is true, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.”

James Morehead, 1985