poetic device: Narrative Poems

Narrative poems are poems that tell a story. It doesn’t have to be a long or complex story. It can even be a short narrative poem that describes something that happened.

Narrative poems are one of the main poetic styles. Others include lyric poems, which describe the narrator’s emotions or feelings, and descriptive poems, which give a detailed description of a person, an object, or an event.

Each of these poems tell a story. Some are short and some are long, while most are somewhere in the middle, but all of them are fun.

Helping the Teacher by Kenn Nesbitt
Helping the Teacher
The Tighty-Whitey Spider
I Bought Our Cat a Jetpack
I Never Want to Go to Bed
Bernadette the Burper by Kenn Nesbitt
Bernadette the Burper
On Dinosaur Island
I Didn’t Go Camping
My New TV
Foolish Fiona
I Took My Canoe to the Ocean by Kenn Nesbitt
I Took My Canoe to the Ocean
Juan and Tu by Kenn Nesbitt
Juan and Tu
Today I Ran a Single Step by Kenn Nesbitt
Today I Ran a Single Step
Teacher, Teacher, How’s My Singing
Rosy the Dozer
Today I Had a Rotten Day by Kenn Nesbitt
Today I Had a Rotten Day
Electronic Christmas
Alphabet Break by Kenn Nesbitt
Alphabet Break
December 26
The Pretzel, the Pig, and the Baby Baboon
My Frog Was in an Accident by Kenn Nesbitt
My Frog Was in an Accident
Computer Boot by Kenn Nesbitt
Computer Boot
I Knew a Guy poem by Kenn Nesbitt
I Knew a Guy
The Aliens Have Landed!
Imaginary Friend

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