Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Poetry

Poems published in Piker Press, a weekly journal of arts and literature.

4,206 articles — page 8 of 141


Crush the Hell on Earth: A Prayer in 10 Parts! (2) by Pranab Ghosh

"...The free flow of our blood..."

To Fade Away by Linda Imbler

...a reverie with the potential to reveal something ...

The truth of heart by Rajnish Mishra

"Poetry is the truth of heart..."

Original Jesters by Scott Thomas Outlar

"...Whispered vowels and sigils given form..."

Barren Wind by Thomas Elson

"...Blue skies disappeared replaced by a steel wool skyline..."

Plastic, Poisonous or Persistent, You Have Your Match! by Ndaba Sibanda

"...fungi that can colonize and degrade plastic polymers..."

Lost Shadow by Gopal Lahiri

"...the expiring city of my frozen childhood..."

Ocean City by Nolo Segundo

"...for the child-me it was nirvana..."

Forever by Wayne F. Burke

"...Absence of Time means no reason to kill Time..."

Why Old Friends Go by Zhihua Wang

"...I can't hold too much love..."

Marsh Waders by Sterling Warner

"...Annas Bay shoreline where blue herons stand..."

The Garden Where Nothing Grows by Lucien R. Starchild

"...A barren plot beyond repair..."

Quintessence of Living by George Gad Economou

"...staring at the frozen waters and the ice covering the sand..."

I’m Just Saying Friendships and Friends Should Be Just by Ndaba Sibanda

"...Don’t we need to keep, animate and treasure friendships?..."

A Day on the Farm, Pt. 2 by Jason Ryberg

"...blue, yellow, orange, like the petals of wildflowers..."

No Filter by N. Chamchoun

Nayma Chamchoun is a British Moroccan writer, poet and performance poet. Her writing is influenced by her cultural duality.

Crush the Hell on Earth: A Prayer in 10 Parts! by Pranab Ghosh

"...My imagination?..."

Mosaic by Jerome Berglund

Art as poem, poem as art...

Babeltopia by Jim Murdoch

"...I rehave fondmems of stalenows and felts longgo..."

Flipbook by Sanjeev Sethi

"... I tuned into an unconscious space..."

Ariadne and Doctor Ramani by Kate Hill-Charalambides

"...She got completely lost in his maze..."

Mini-Bike by Jim Bates

"...Engines roaring as those few years raced by..."

Breaking Free from Yesterday by Saadatu Uzairu

"...what my eyes saw wasn’t an illusion, but reality..."

On a Date in Bulawayo by Ndaba Sibanda

"...she had a beautiful blind date..."

Don't Make Me Stand by Bradford Middleton

"My knee aches with age..."

Loneliness by Jan Wiezorek

"...Will you remember me in ten years?..."

The Red Dress by Jackie Chou

"...I must have not wanted it..."

While Worms Pray to Fish Shaped Gods by Richard LeDue

"...No one seems to care either way..."

Mountains, Zero by Kushal Poddar

"...call the emptiness that called us..."

When ZimLitBot Pledges to Help Admin and the Writers’ Group by Ndaba Sibanda

"Say you join a writers’ Facebook group..."