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 Sat Down on a Seesaw by Kenn Nesbitt
I Sat Down On a Seesaw
Robots in the Classroom by Kenn Nesbitt
Robots in the School
Antigravity Machine
Antigravity Machine
Has Anyone Seen My Chameleon?
Bored by Kenn Nesbitt
Bored
A Kangaroo at London Zoo by Kenn Nesbitt
A Kangaroo at London Zoo
The Ugly, Ugly Duckling
I Built a Castle on the Beach
Gobble, Gobble Went the Turkey
Patricia Brought Her Parakeet by Kenn Nesbitt
Patricia Brought Her Parakeet
I Think Achoo I Have the Flu by Kenn Nesbitt
I Think, ACHOO!, I Have the Flu
Green Rain by Kenn Nesbitt
Green Rain
Forty Purple Porpoises by Kenn Nesbitt
Forty Purple Porpoises
I Named My Dogs the Strangest Names by Kenn Nesbitt
I Named My Dogs the Strangest Names
Octoproblem by Kenn Nesbitt
Octoproblem
Rosemarie Rassmussen by Kenn Nesbitt
Rose Marie Rassmussen
Mall Crawl
Gordon’s Garden
An Awesome Opposum
I Grew a Foot this Summer by Kenn Nesbitt
I Grew a Foot this Summer
Peter Prim the Fire Eater by Kenn Nesbitt
Peter Prim the Fire-Eater
My Brother Is Still in His Bedroom by Kenn Nesbitt
My Brother is Still in His Bedroom
I Have an Amoeba
Auntie Gravity

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