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 115 of 141


The Fading Line by Edward Lee

"...unable to lift our eyes..."

Polaroid by Linda Imbler

"...so dear to me, yet lost in time..."

Winter of Days by Ken Allan Dronsfield

"...soft whispers echo upon the cellar walls..."

This Is How the Earth Cries by Eddie Awusi

"...Stunting roses on senile soils..."

Thud by JD DeHart

"...waiting for the charge..."

I Don't Know How To Grieve by Charles Cicirella

"...Grief and I have never quite seen eye to eye..."

Over the Phone by Ed Krizek

"...Soon there will be no more time..."

Grind by John Patrick Robbins

"...how could I say no..."

Forerunners by Sanjeev Sethi

"...follow your feather..."

walking to work poem (after frank o'hara) by John Grochalski

"...and i have every house on this walk memorized like bad poetry..."

Fremont Street Stormtrooper by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

"...so that you never have to stop gambling..."

Thoughts Race by Rajnish Mishra

"...the sky is the same but the ground beneath is not..."

On the Verge of Saying It by Ndaba Sibanda

"...at all times she wondered whether his head wasn't full of wind..."

Forbid My Sunrise on a Foreign Sky by Eddie Awusi

"...A refugee; a piper; a homeless boy, a castaway..."

Crosses by Frederick Foote

"You suffer me, I tolerate you..."

Thoughts and Theories of Spaces and Distances by Tony Gloeggler

"...Five days a week, you stand on a platform with people who glance at watches..."

Sitting Behind the Empty Cheap Seats by Edward Lee

"...leave the poems to the poets..."

Tyrant Fallen by Linda Imbler

"...an exhalation of breath, blessed relief..."

The Beginning of Universal Awareness by Jake Cosmos Aller

"...Yet life sometimes needs clarification..."

poem drunk on blood by John Sweet

"...when the trigger is pulled..."

Yard Work by Michael H. Brownstein

"...into a wind across an edge of yard..."

Platinum City by Hongri Yuan

Hongri Yuan, born in China in 1962, is a poet and philosopher interested particularly in creation. His poetry has been published in the UK, USA, India, New Zealand, Canada and Nigeria.

Dirty Martini by John Dorroh

"...The dark gray cloud bank rolled over the hill from St. Louis..."

Giant's Poem by Hongri Yuan

"...the temple of the soul is in a garden beyond time..."

Migration by JD DeHart

"...Enough gets to be enough..."

Unthreading Emotions by Sanjeev Sethi

"... how do I set asunder yours and mine?.."

fat american kids at the anne frank house (amsterdam) by John Grochalski

"...not a single one of them has a clue..."

The wild girl by Abigail George

"...Nan also told us about her summer dad. The winter woman who was her mother..."

My Lines by Rajnish Mishra

"...Would it not be dead, not dead if read?.."

I Don't See Them Here by Ndaba Sibanda

"...Hence cranes are like the thighs of a tortoise..."