Today’s prompt: take any random song playlist (from  your iPod, CD player, favorite radio station, Pandora or Spotify, etc.) and use the next five song titles on that randomized list in a poem.

The songs that came up:

‘Gold’ (Spandau Ballet)
‘Stay’ (The Blue Nile)
‘Two bit’ (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
‘The God of Small Caresses’ (David Sylvian/Jan Bang/Erik Honoré/Arve Hendriksen/Sidsel Endresen)
‘The Christmas Waltz’ (Nancy Wilson)

The result:

I’ve never danced the Christmas Waltz
There was never any reason to stay that long
except maybe for the girl in the polka-dot skirt
who was too engrossed in two-bit dance steps
with the God of Small Caresses to notice much
outside the circle of gold

(9 April 2014)