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.

Mr. Negative by Kenn Nesbitt
Mr. Negative
The Seefood Diet
Fancy Dancer by Kenn Nesbitt
Fancy Dancer
Morning Sports
Autumn Is the Time of Year
Moving to China
Mirror, Mirror by Linda Knaus and Kenn Nesbitt
Mirror, Mirror
School Supplies by Kenn Nesbitt
School Supplies
I’m Not Picky
Halloween Cuisine
Costume Classroom by Kenn Nesbitt
Costume Classroom
Do You See What I See?
My Mouse is Misbehaving
A Dream of School Supplies
My Parents Sent Me To the Store
The Winter Olympics are Practically Here
Mr. Obvious
My Family’s Fond of Gadgets
If I Had a Dollar
My Dog Plays Invisible Frisbee
My Robot’s Misbehaving
Bigfoot’s Bewilderment
I Eat Spaghetti with a Spoon
Our Teacher's Multitalented by Kenn Nesbitt
Our Teacher’s Multi-Talented

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