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.

This Afternoon I Met a Slark by Kenn Nesbitt
This Afternoon I Met a Slark
I Saw a Sloth Play Soccer
I Went to the Gym
It’s Raining in My Bedroom
One Warm Sunny Day by Kenn Nesbitt
One Warm, Sunny Day
Roses are Red
My Family’s Fond of Gadgets
My Cat Goes Flying Through the Air
I Ran for the Chapstick
Don't Forget to Floss by Kenn Nesbitt
Don’t Forget to Floss
I Tried to Find a Dinosaur
Halloween Party
Betty Met a Yeti
Sharpen Sharpen Sharpen by Kenn Nesbitt
Sharpen, Sharpen, Sharpen
Mr. Meecher, Science Teacher
My Dad Was a Custodian by Kenn Nesbitt
My Father Was a Janitor
Science Unfair
I Wrote an Awful Poem by Kenn Nesbitt
I Wrote an Awful Poem
My Brother Made a Snowball
The Summer's Nearly Over by Kenn Nesbitt
The Summer’s Nearly Over
I Have to Write a Poem
Emilio, Emilio
Fearless Frederick by Kenn Nesbitt
Fearless Frederick
The Tiger and the Zebra

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