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
Lorenzo Liszt, Non-Scientist
To Some It’s Known as Halloween
Recipe for Disaster
Benjamin Plays Bass Guitar
I’m Growing a Truck in the Garden
My Kiwi Is the Captain
Everything We Learn at School
Transportation Vacation
I Found Myself Upon a Cow
Just a Slug
It’s Raining Cats and Dogs Today
Jim Sox
My New School
I Bought My Mom an Apple
Dizzy Dottie’s Dog Salon
I’ll Never
Everyone’s from Somewhere Else
Perfect Peter Paul
Betsy Burped the ABC’s
Sam, Who Only Ate Jam
The Bagel Bird
I Made a Hat