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.

I Love to Do the Laundry by Kenn Nesbitt
I Love to Do the Laundry
Josh, Who Didn’t Like to Wash
Snow Mail by Kenn Nesbitt
Snow Mail
I Got a New Laptop for Christmas
Snow Day
Digging for Diamonds by Kenn Nesbitt
Digging for Diamonds
Monkey Dream
Bob’s Sled
Costume Classroom by Kenn Nesbitt
Costume Classroom
My Parents Sent Me To the Store
I Went to the Gym
It’s Raining in My Bedroom
Roses are Red
One Warm Sunny Day by Kenn Nesbitt
One Warm, Sunny Day
The Summer's Nearly Over by Kenn Nesbitt
The Summer’s Nearly Over
I Saw a Sloth Play Soccer
My Family’s Fond of Gadgets
My Cat Goes Flying Through the Air
Don't Forget to Floss by Kenn Nesbitt
Don’t Forget to Floss
I Ran for the Chapstick
This Afternoon I Met a Slark by Kenn Nesbitt
This Afternoon I Met a Slark
I Tried to Find a Dinosaur
Halloween Party
Betty Met a Yeti

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