Song From The Mountaintop



(From My Novel 'Searching For Crazy Horse': Published 2011)

         Song From The Mountaintop
Columbia Falls, Montana- September, 2003

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 all 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...

Until reborn in the arrival of yet another desperate beginning,
  —holding nothing back
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 28, 2016

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Scheme X XX XA XX XA XX XX XB BX BX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 958
Words 158
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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