"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

"Ash Wednesday Blues," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Ronn Jerome, Vocals

"The Going Away Blues," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Axel Y. Lutter, Music.

"Sugar Blues Again," by Hans Ostrom, Lyrics, and Weldon Keystone, Music

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

"The Phantom Blues," by Hans Ostrom (Lyrics), The Reggie T. Irons Blues...

"The Wait Til Next Year Blues," by Hans Ostrom (Lyrics) and the Stabler ...

"She's Got the Tattoo Blues," by Hans Ostrom (Lyrics), Jackie D. (Music)

"Dreamy Blue," by Hans Ostrom (Lyrics) and Clarita G. (vocals)

"The Autumn Blues," by Hans Ostrom (Lyrics) and Miss Audrey M. Blue, voc...

"Charlotte's Blues (Wheels, Money, Men, and Soul)," by Hans Ostrom (Lyri...

"She Refuses to Get the Blues," by Jacquelyn Ostrom and Friends

"(Two) Haiku," by Etheridge Knight

Gregg Allman, Taj Mahal and Chris Stapleton with "Statesboro Blues" from...

"Worrier Blues," by Roger Illsley

One-Year Old Henry's Blues

   ... start with a higher-

pitched whine followed by grumbles
          low, real low: fussy

Bayou Blues

 Sulfur yellow sky

seals in obese,
humid air.

Just sitting on
our slumped porch,
us, still we sweat creeks.

A sick boat motor
coughs over there
on the bayou canal.

A sedan drives up.
Looks like a Fed car.
Our neighbors scatter

like water drops
on a griddle. We
have to breathe

this air. We have
to breathe this
here hot, wet air.

hans ostrom 2023

"Sinister Blue Vine," Roger Illsley

Blue Vine

 

Sinister blue vine

In the jungle of your mind

Reaching out to pull you in

Drag you down to blues again.

Sinister blue vine.

 

I am ashamed

To feel so bad

When life's all right

And things are fine.

 

Still sometimes sadness

Smothers me

Like a wicked jungle vine--

A sinister blue vine.

 

It grabs and grips you

On your path

And pulls you off

Your daily way.

 

It wraps you in

Its greasy branches

Sinks you, drowns you

In quicksand day.

 

Sinister blue vine

In the jungle of your mind

Reaching out to pull you in

Drag you down to blues again.

Sinister blue vine.

Grab a machete

Cut and slash

Rip away that awful vine

Find that path

Too feeling fine. 

Damn that sinister blue vine. 

hans ostrom 2023

"Phantom Blues"

A couple years ago I posted a short poem called "Phantom Blues," and I made a recording/video of it. So there's that.  Apologies to Taj Mahal, who has an album called Phantom Blues. And apparently there's a Phantom Blues Band.

a link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT9EzML0zhY