poetic device: List Poems

A “list poem” is a poem that incorporates some kind of list, often in the middle of the poem. It can be a list of objects, actions, ideas, or even words or people. If you’d like to learn to write your own list poems, check out this lesson.

All of these poems are list poems to some degree. Many of them are pure list poems, while others have a small list somewhere in the poem.

Dear Santa, Did You Get My Tweet?
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Random Recipe
The Birds Are Chirping Happily by Kenn Nesbitt
The Birds Are Chirping Happily
Opposite Day
My Mother Drives Me Everywhere
The Life of a Pirate Ain’t Easy
I Played a Game
I’m Staying Home From School Today
Not-So Fast Food
My Lunch Gave Me a Tummy Ache
Today I Decided to Make Up a Word
I’d Like to Meet an Alien
You Can Argue with a Tennis Ball
You Can Argue with a Tennis Ball
My Parents Both Are Humans by Kenn Nesbitt
My Parents Both Are Humans
I Went to a Wishing Well
Xbox, Xbox
Rules for School by Kenn Nesbitt
Rules for School
Busy Jack by Kenn Nesbitt
Busy Jack
Sunday’s Somewhat Melancholy
The Reason Vance Learned How to Dance by Kenn Nesbitt
The Reason Vance Learned How to Dance
I'm a Pirate and a Pumpkin by Kenn Nesbitt
I’m a Pirate and a Pumpkin
My Senses All are Backward
My Smartphone Isn’t Very Smart
The Monster's Thanksgiving by Kenn Nesbitt
The Monsters’ Thanksgiving

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