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
One | Two | Three | Four | Five |
Screenplay | On Vacation | Desert Snow | Pony Ride in the Sky | Southern Justice |