Song From The Mountaintop

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The cry of an eagle floats across a distant peak
bear tracks visible in the Spring thawing snow

Sunlight, spreading its dance upon the land
the Ponderosa Pine and Aspen in bloom

The glaciers look down smiling the higher you climb
searching for that redemption never offered below

The wolf trails the hare back inside its snowy den
the road to all new entry having now been cleared

Permission never asked for, granted, as the music starts
it’s early May in the Rockies—the January of renewal

In a celebration of new life, flowers wrap the landscape like ribbon
tying close the promises like good wishes on a Christmas morning

It’s springtime even on the highest peak, and old questions lost of meaning now seem gone away…

Reborn in the arrival of yet another desperate beginning,
—holding nothing back

(Columbia Falls, Montana: September, 2003)                                     

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Published by Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with 21 books published to date—one best seller. Much of my writing is about the deception of time and its many disguises. My Poetry 'An Anthology Of Perception,' is now available in four volumes. In addition I have a 175 page Poem 'After Midnight,' that was published in 2014. My Historical Fiction series, 'The Sword Of Ichiban' is now up to volume 8 which is being published this Spring ... Vol #1- The Sword Of Ichiban Vol #2- Darkening Sun Vol #3- Revenge Along The War Trail Vol #4- Death From The Sky Vol #5- Jumping Into the Darkness Vol #6- The Fall City Mandate. Vol #7- Approaching Storm Vol #8- Brothers In Blood One autobiographical novel, 'The Death Of The Playground' a Best Seller, published in 2007. One travel novel, 'Searching For Crazy Horse,' published in 2005, recapping my forty years of motorcycle touring in the American Rocky Mountain West. I have written one Children's Book, 'Sammy & Bumpers' that was published in 2016. All of my books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and better Book Stores world wide. Kurt Philip Behm

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