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.

Dreaming of Summer
No Pencil by Kenn Nesbitt
No Pencil
Lorenzo Liszt, Non-Scientist
To Some It's Known as Halloween by Kenn Nesbitt
To Some It’s Known as Halloween
Recipe for Disaster by Kenn Nesbitt
Recipe for Disaster
Benjamin Plays Bass Guitar by Kenn Nesbitt
Benjamin Plays Bass Guitar
I'm Growing a Truck in the Garden by Kenn Nesbitt
I’m Growing a Truck in the Garden
My Kiwi Is the Captain
Everything We Learn at School by Kenn Nesbitt
Everything We Learn at School
Transportation Vacation
I Found Myself Upon a Cow
Just a Slug
It's Raining Cats and Dogs Today by Kenn Nesbitt
It’s Raining Cats and Dogs Today
Jim Sox by Kenn Nesbitt
Jim Sox
My New School by Kenn Nesbitt
My New School
I Bought My Mom an Apple by Kenn Nesbitt
I Bought My Mom an Apple
Dizzy Dottie’s Dog Salon
I'll Never by Kenn Nesbitt
I’ll Never
Everyone's from Somewhere Else by Kenn Nesbitt
Everyone’s from Somewhere Else
Perfect Peter Paul by Kenn Nesbitt
Perfect Peter Paul
Betsy Burped the ABCs by Kenn Nesbitt
Betsy Burped the ABC’s
Sam Who Only Ate Jam by Kenn Nesbitt
Sam, Who Only Ate Jam
The Bagel Bird
I Made a Hat by Kenn Nesbitt
I Made a Hat