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 Teacher Calls Me Sweetiecakes by Kenn Nesbitt
My Teacher Calls Me Sweetie Cakes
The Reason Vance Learned How to Dance by Kenn Nesbitt
The Reason Vance Learned How to Dance
I Don't Know What to Do Today by Kenn Nesbitt
I Don’t Know What to Do Today
Today I Packed My Lunch Myself by Kenn Nesbitt
Today I Packed My Lunch Myself
My Lunch
Melinda Made a Snowman
My Legs Both Understand Me
This Poem's Not About a Dog by Kenn Nesbitt
This Poem’s Not About a Dog
Octopus for Lunch
Thanksgiving
My Mother Said to Do My Chores by Kenn Nesbitt
My Mother Said to Do My Chores
My Purple Unicorn by Kenn Nesbitt
My Purple Unicorn
My Absolutely True Life Story by Kenn Nesbitt
My Absolutely True Life Story
Santa Brought a Bar of Soap
Wayne the Stegosaurus
My Parents Both Are Humans by Kenn Nesbitt
My Parents Both Are Humans
Merlo the Magnificent
How Not to Cook by Kenn Nesbitt
How Not to Cook
What to Remember in School
I'm Great at Almost Catching Things by Kenn Nesbitt
I’m Great at Almost Catching Things
Christmas Shopping
It's a Farmer's Job to Farm by Kenn Nesbitt
It’s a Farmer’s Job to Farm
Thanksgiving Leftovers
I Went to the Doctor

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