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 119 of 141


The Wrath of January by James Nichols

"...December dies in solitude..."

It Doesn't Matter Where, It Only Matters Who by Scott Thomas Outlar

Merry Christmas, happy holidays to all who love...

Haunted By His Mentor's Disastrous Ghost by Ndaba Sibanda

"...Were they not in that mess because of his master's inanities?.."

Weaponized by Sarah Ito

"It has come time to mix and mingle..."

I Have Held Your Face, with a Favoured Bowl by Eddie Awusi

"...You were my life's breath, my annexed light's Indigo beauty..."

Hear What They Won't Tell You by Ndaba Sibanda

"It is the wish and prayer of every patriotic African..."

Bone and other stories by Abigail George

"...Fade away to wise-everything..."

Asset by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

"...victory for compression sock gentrification..."

US by Frederick Foote

"...a hand at every throat a knife for every back..."

My City Rises by Rajnish Mishra

"...a slow and sure rise of memories, thoughts and emotions..."

To the Bicycle Rider, 5:58 PM by Alyssa Trivett

"...you play human dodgeball with cars..."

Broken Dream by Joan McNerney

"...a dream of grey imprisoned within grey stone..."

Stupefied by Ken Allan Dronsfield

"...Forgetting today's dragooned folly..."

Tenderness by Abigail George

"...For every sinner, there's a Dreamer..."

Foreplay by Tony Gloeggler

"...in the fifth grade giggling girls drew fat hearts..."

Point of No Return by Charles Cicirella

"...truth will not fail you nor will it take you for a ride..."

Poetry Is by Frederick Foote

"...Pretentious, modest, A mummer, a scream..."

Disillusion by Daginne Aignend

"...I praise the immaculate snow white beach..."

Poisoned Pleasures by Ann Christine Tabaka

"...of a time I still try hard to forget..."

Dining with the Dead by Eddie Awusi

"...A plenipotentiary of the services of worms..."

Time and Life to Death by Rajnish Mishra

"...Life goes daily, usually on..."

A Cold Crimson Mist by Ken Allan Dronsfield

"...buried alive it now seems..."

Through the Kitchen Window by Amanda Girard

"...They animate themselves as if I have triggered their movement..."

Hiding in a Hub of Inspiration by Ndaba Sibanda

"...let a hunger for story-telling eat me up..."

Knave by Joan McNerney

"...Headlight eyes scoping each corner searching prey..."

Waiting at the Gates by Scott Thomas Outlar

Know that you were loved...

Einstein Is Dead by Ryan Quinn Flanagan

"...mating in the warring dogfight sky..."

Vertigo by Abigail George

"...Dreams are made up of stardust, The origins of heat and dust..."

Fall For It by James Nichols

"...Her ochre now home among the yellow friends..."

Earthling by Adam Levon Brown

"...in the mirror of the cosmos..."