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.

My Lunch
I Don't Know What to Do Today by Kenn Nesbitt
I Don’t Know What to Do Today
How Not to Cook by Kenn Nesbitt
How Not to Cook
Horror Movie Marathon by Kenn Nesbitt
Horror Movie Marathon
My Legs Both Understand Me
Melinda Made a Snowman
My Mother Said to Do My Chores by Kenn Nesbitt
My Mother Said to Do My Chores
This Poem's Not About a Dog by Kenn Nesbitt
This Poem’s Not About a Dog
What to Remember in School
My Absolutely True Life Story by Kenn Nesbitt
My Absolutely True Life Story
Merlo the Magnificent
Octopus for Lunch
My Purple Unicorn by Kenn Nesbitt
My Purple Unicorn
Wayne the Stegosaurus
Santa Brought a Bar of Soap
Thanksgiving Leftovers
Christmas Shopping
I Went to the Doctor
This Winter I Went Sledding
Today I Packed My Lunch Myself by Kenn Nesbitt
Today I Packed My Lunch Myself
Mammals by Kenn Nesbitt
Mammals
When Chemists Die They Barium by Kenn Nesbitt
When Chemists Die, They Barium
I Went for a Walk by Kenn Nesbitt
I Went for a Walk
I Am a Cow

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