Flamethrower
Highly flammable fuel fire-streams over from you to me,
Like a shark trailing white and red in the pacific deep,
Red-raw, orange-oven, yellow-yolk, white-waves, aloft my benign blue balance.
I am a slippery fish in the Hudson River, gleaming and glistening,
Crossing and turning,
An unaware and pristine prey,
Thrust beneath your ominous keening whale song.
Be gentle with me,
I am water not fire.
Six Modern Haiku
One single lost raft,
Swaying in the serene sea,
Acapella voice.
Pebbles in the snow,
White ices the roaming river-
No birds in the nest.
Little hidden house,
Still upon the rolling hill,
Sun will melt your walls.
Glistening hard rock,
Listening to the rainfall,
Morning lithophytes rise…
Sky crashing and raw,
Honey-roasted canopy,
New day has risen.
Lake spins from my mouth,
Marbling rain massages ground,
Hearts are thinning out.
Carmella de Keyser is originally from Camden, London, she is a University of Manchester graduate who writes poetry that explores her part Balkan identity, ambivalence, otherization, 90’s sub-cultures, liminal spaces, grief and feelings of displacement. She is passionate about providing safe spaces for poets to perform and share their work and is founder of the Harlow Circle of Poetry Stanza. Judge for the ‘Harlow Open Poetry Competition’, 2025, her poems have been featured in magazines and poetry anthologies including: ‘BBC Radio Essex’, ‘Dream Catcher Literary Magazine’, ‘The Dark Poets Club’, ‘Outside the Box’, ‘The Dirigible Balloon’, ‘Your Harlow Newspaper’, ‘Suburban Witchcraft Magazine’, and ‘Wishbone Words Magazine’. She achieved an ‘Honourable Mention’ for the ‘Dark Poets Prize’ 2024 and was a winner of the' Hedgehog Press Poetry Pamphlet Competition’ 2024. She will be featured in the forthcoming Macmillan Poetry Anthology ‘You’re Never Too Much’ 2025 and her debut pamphlet ‘The Liminal Light of the Night’ is out now with 'Hedgehog Poetry Press'.
Bluesky handle: Carmella de Keyser (@carmellapoetry.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Twitter X Handle: https://x.com/CarmellaPoetry
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