Listing pages only through routes

Developer help
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I am trying to come up with a route that jus list pages. I am playing around with the following ways. Neither of them work. When i hit either www.xyz.com/pages/ or www.xyz.com/articles/, I am getting a page but the list of pages I expect is empty.

routes:
  /pages/:
    controller: channel
    template: pages
    filter: page:true

collections:
  /articles/:
    permalink: /articles/{slug}/
    template: pages
    filter: page:true

Is it possible to achieve this the way I am trying? Help appreciated.