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.

I Don't Know What to Do Today by Kenn Nesbitt
I Don’t Know What to Do Today
Melinda Made a Snowman
How Not to Cook by Kenn Nesbitt
How Not to Cook
My Legs Both Understand Me
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
My Absolutely True Life Story by Kenn Nesbitt
My Absolutely True Life Story
Wayne the Stegosaurus
Merlo the Magnificent
Octopus for Lunch
What to Remember in School
My Purple Unicorn by Kenn Nesbitt
My Purple Unicorn
Santa Brought a Bar of Soap
Thanksgiving Leftovers
Christmas Shopping
When Chemists Die They Barium by Kenn Nesbitt
When Chemists Die, They Barium
I Went to the Doctor
This Winter I Went Sledding
Mammals by Kenn Nesbitt
Mammals
I Raised My Hand in Class by Kenn Nesbitt
I Raised My Hand in Class
I Went out Exploring by Kenn Nesbitt
I Went out Exploring
I Went for a Walk by Kenn Nesbitt
I Went for a Walk
That Explains It!
New Year's Day Promises by Kenn Nesbitt
New Year’s Day Promises

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