Alphabet Soup

(This exercise involved making a list of words 26 words beginning with the letters of the alphabet, a place name, a person's name, and a colour. These are, of course, just ingredients to help you get started. You'll note I added a lot of words and I did not use a person's name, and the place name actually only appears in the title.)

Escape from Oz
You are too open, they will get to you--
the frenzied ululations feeding your self-doubt.
Enormous bendy agression is no match for
conniving divas.
Greed is human,
but your snide jeers are so random,
hiding your hurt.
I lost the key... please
don't be mad.
Persistant fiery tempers--
xeroxes of each other lose quality.
I am iced over -- the red moods cannot break me.
Now what?

Monosyllabic

(I'm trying to do a virtual poetry workshop, so after a three month absence, I may post a lot of (possibly really bad) poetry. This exercise's objective was to use only monosyllabic words--yes I know "smile" is two, and several words have more than one mora... but it's close. I don't feel that it has a lot of "rhythm" but is the same disjointed feel as most of what I write. Still, I kind of like it...)

I want to go to France
Air is cool, fresh (I guess this)
Spread the word that
I love Coke [your green eyes]
Smile on the way to Spain
          Rain and plains
Glad to be not at home, but here.
Would take a plane to see you.
The feat is nuts, my head aches
          Kiss!