"For today’s prompt, write a trap poem. There are physical traps—like mouse traps and bear traps. But people also sometimes fall into language traps or social traps. Many competitive types in business and various games try to set traps for their competitors. Of course, for every person setting a trap, there’s likely another person trying to avoid falling into traps." - prompt taken from the Writers Digest website.
No one can set a trap better than Macaulay Culkin in the Home Alone series. I tried to do a "concrete" poem so look for the shape of a house. The door is supposed to be in between the space of the inner sides of the words that follow "boy". “Setting a Trap”
Left home alone Setting a trap was his only Option to defend his house. Using tar, nails, and twine, ice water, glue, and rope, he kept at it. He was a crafty little boy And He Never Once Gave Up On Hope Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgEP1niScLc
Be kind. Stay curious.
XO,
Ro
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