"La Belle Dame Sans Merci," by John Keats, set to music

 Keats's famous ballad (1819) sung and set to music via suno.com with prompts from Hans Ostrom

w/ video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbqcC0odLz0

"Downward Dog Blues," by Hans Ostrom, lyrics

 genial yoga satire

got them sad, downward dog blues

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTZcBwhKyl0

"Strong and Sweet," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom

 folk-country song--arch-top guitar--harmonica

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogYNRWoyS7w

"Penelope Calliope," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom

upbeat folk-pop, positive vibe

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcacb2iw3hM 

"Life Is Just a Breath," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom--soul jazz

 soul jazz ballad

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeIW0kG5Yb8

"Ash Wednesday Blues," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom

 traditional blues

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnlfe87X27U

"Don't Be That Guy," Lyrics By Hans Ostrom

 Hard rock re: lazy men. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezn7wpxEBHI

"MonoSyllabicSphere," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom

 the monosyllables of the digital world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1Bz_xUr74

"You Whispered My Name," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom

 Swing jazz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kIsuXSOrYA

"Sunday After Rain," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsNyYLoy0tM

"Each," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom--Electronic Music w/ African drumming

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D_9F3dODYU

"Our Hot Tropics," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom

 Erotic folk rock/tropical rock

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDDsjD_9IJs

"What Is Your Best Life?" Lyrics by Hans Ostrom. Indie folk ballad

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-RT1bzArY

Yeats, "The Second Coming," read & set to music

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up5kRwdlqUw

"The Password to Your Heart" funky R&B/Soul

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-CH_phRLfI

The Superb Owl

 reposting one from 2015

 (super bowl)

What is this superb owl
that everyone's talking about?
It sounds fantastic. I would
like to watch it, to see it glide
in moonlight across
a clearing, alighting in a grove.

Well, yes, of course, we may hold
a superb owl press-conference
and attend superb owl parties!
I don't yet know what in particular
the superb owl even better
than other owls I've seen.
I will not quit until I find out.

In the meantime, let be known
that near barns and in woods,
in city parks and gullies,
on plains and in mountains,
I am a fan of the superb owl,
its perfect wingspan cutting
silently, like longing,
through the air.


hans ostrom
copyright 2015

"Surrendering to Tenderness," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom

 romantic jazz ballad

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QT2JgvbSxo

"Two Secrets," Lyrics by Hans Ostrom--Folk Rock

 He kept one secrets and finally shared a second one . . . .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plqM4dmqa9Q

"He's a Travelin' Cat," lyrics by Hans Ostrom, vocals by Jerry O.

 Electronic-chill for cat lovers who dance

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi-LhbQPgm4

"Song of Solomon: Canto 7," rendered in a soul-jazz/R&B song

 A Canto often noted for its sensual, erotic qualities. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l36Z8AlV0mA

"The Weary Blues," by Langston Hughes [in the public domain], sung and set to music--

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_UFrkbmw2U 

"Bread from the Fire," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Bertha Brady (vocals)

"ABCDerian Menagerie," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, Leonard Nilquo, Vocals

"The Listeners," by Walter de la Mare, set to music, vocals by Simon and...

"Take Down an Instrument," by Rumi

"Witch-Wife," by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Run to the Sun," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Antonio Spiaggia, Vocals

"A Trip Inside," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Les Edsel, Vocals

"sorrows," by Lucille Clifton (1936-2010)

"Common Dust," by Georgia Douglas Johnson [poem by GDJ -- Black History Month

"The Empty House," poem by Walter de la Mare, set to music, vocals by Si...

"Escape," by Georgia Douglas Johnson (Black History Month)

"Could Be," by Langston Hughes (Black History Month)

"Here Comes Time," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and the Charlie Botting Band,...

Awkward Blues, by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Roanoke Detwiler, Vocals

"Define Okay," by Hans Ostrom (Lyrics) and Wilsey Johns (Music)

‘Masked Agents In Our Streets’: Bill Clinton Slams Donald Trump Over ICE...

"The Want of Peace," by Wendell Berry (a timely poem to consider, to say the least)

Three Short Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay--"City Trees, "To Those Wit...

"Beautiful In Spring," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Inez Fanny Winstead,M...