ScreenplayFormalityAt the CopaThe Reyarp (from a poem by Joyce, backwards)PrivacyMistake in IdentityTruthOn VacationBack AgainTwo Hour TuesdaysterrifiedWaterfallDesert SnowNirvanablack iceMomentSummer CyclistRainmy shirtPony Ride in the Sky (poem)Piano PlayerPatiencePatrick Stares Into a DreamLoverMessageThe InternationalSouthern JusticeShhhhElevator ShoppingRendezvousGrey Beneath Sparkling TreesSilk Suspenders Pony Ride in the Sky Overture to SilenceSad EyesCat-TracksBalanceThe Song of Wind-Blown PaperInsomniaMirrorsPoison Blood Excerpts from Viewless Wings Small TalkSunday AfternoonL.A.LetterBad TimingTravelingApproaching ThunderCity TourBed TimeHomecomingNothingWelcomeA RealizationPeaceSome Sort of MonologueBeachFloating Under MoonlightCity DwellerLifeA Place to HideEmeraldsSpiral Dream More Poems from High School portraits of red and grey - 1portraits of red and grey - 2portraits of red and grey - 3portraits of red and grey - 4portraits of red and grey - 5portraits of red and grey - 6portraits of red and grey - 7portraits of red and grey - 8portraits of red and grey - 9portraits of red and grey - 10portraits of red and grey - 11portraits of red and grey - 12portraits of red and grey - 13portraits of red and grey - 14portraits of red and grey - 15portraits of red and grey - 16portraits of red and grey - 17portraits of red and grey - 18portraits of red and grey - 19portraits of red and grey - 20portraits of red and grey - 21portraits of red and grey - 22portraits of red and grey - 23portraits of red and grey - 24 portraits of red and grey pays de leau - 1pays de leau - 2pays de leau - 3pays de leau - 4pays de leau - 5 pays de leau WarmthPurr waiting for sunrisemagical memoriesmillenium bearmusic for an abandoned warehousei droverichochetsthe price of love (is fear)midnight wandereretchings

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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 Formality At the Copa The Reyarp Privacy Mistake in Identity Truth	On Vacation Back Again Two Hour    Tuesdays "terrified" Waterfall	Desert Snow Nirvana "black ice" Moment Summer Cyclist Rain "my shirt"	Pony Ride in the    Sky Piano Player Patience Patrick Stares    into a Dream Lover Message The International	Southern Justice Shhhh Elevator    Shopping Rendezvous Grey Beneath    Sparkling Trees Silk Suspenders