Highlights from various past issues of bottle rockets
(please note bottle rockets is not an online journal)
The purpose of this page is specifically intended to offer a person new to bottle rockets:a collection of short verse various examples of the type of haiku, senryu, and tanka the editors lean towards accepting.
The editors lean very, very far away from the misinterpreted and outdated English 5-7-5 model, which seems to be perpetuated by the American public school system.
Though it is probably best to order a back issue of bottle rockets before submitting to get a feel for what is a fit, this page is offered as an alternative free option.
haiku, senryu and small poems
train ride
I’m only seeing
one side of things
Michael Fessler
just happy enough
I cross
Felicity Stree
David G. Lanoue
even
in my death poem
Brooklyn accent
vincent tripi
in the envelope
I addressed,
rejection slip —
Steve Calamars
courthouse clock tower
on each side
a different time
Tanya McDonald
e-mailing dating
she tries to sound
pretty
Johnette Downing
petals on a breeze
the sumo wrestler
shoved from the ring
Tom Tico
Nihilist
Funeral —
no blossoms
Erik Linzbach
midnight moon—
from aloe to sage
a spider’s web
Edith Bartholomeusz
all black zendo —
my official Buddhist cushion
rejected
Robert Ertman
Veteran’s Day —
counting myself lucky
to have 10 fingers, 10 toes
karma tenzing wangchuk
waiting
at the window
night comes first
Rohini Gupta
Tanka
slowly unfolding
an old love letter
if only
I treated her
with such care
Tyrone McDonald
a wooden ladder
leans against a leafless
apple tree —
not everything
stands for something else
Bob Lucky
this dress
from our honeymoon
too small now
tonight
a full moon
Elizabeth Bodien
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