OctPoWriMo 2014: Day 22

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For Amy Winehouse

(14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011)

They tried to make me do a video

Of myself reading a poem

But I said "no, no, no"

I'm going to write a poem

About Amy Winehouse instead

In many ways, Amy was the kind of girl

Who said "I can do anything I set my mind to"

She was adventurous

She was audacious

She was spontaneous

Her voice was tantalizing

Her look, provocative

But in some ways, perhaps Amy 

Was not as impulsive as she might have appeared on the surface

She may have needed substances

To feel encouraged to step outside her fears

To continue to feel elated when she came down

To feel motivated to keep on

When I think of Amy Winehouse

I feel sad for her troubles

I feel admiration for her talents

And perhaps I feel a little jealous

For although she was troubled and tumultuous

She packed a lot of living

Into her twenty-seven short years

~Tempest~

Avoid viewing the comments on this video if you don't want to start thinking that the human race would be better off obliterated; they're a worse cesspool than usual.

Word Prompts:

Tantalizing

Adventurous

Audacious

Valiant

Spontaneous

Feeling Prompts:

Encouraged

Motivated

Provocative

Impulsive

Elated

Sentence Starters:

I can do anything I set my mind to...

When I think of...

I feel...