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IN THE SILENCE OF THE HOUSE

ALM No.88, April 2026

POETRY

Anna Kapungu

3/20/20261 min read

brown wooden house near lake surrounded by green trees during daytime
brown wooden house near lake surrounded by green trees during daytime

IN THE SILENCE OF THE HOUSE

In the comfort of this house

The night time is an escape

An escape to hear my inner voice

Speak ,speak words of peace to me

Sugar coated sweet

In this house of consolation

Harmony flying into my freedom

Scents of peace descends in the fortified fragrances tranquillo

The night unleashes its heat

Overwhelming ethereal stillness

With white starlights in the summertime sky

I wish the night would not end

I close my eyes

The bedroom filled with orange light

The night my complexion it mirrors

Complexion of my complexity

THE PEACEMAKER

It was all in the signs

Understood I needed to find myself reticence

Flee the city

Extract myself out of the flow of human traffic

Find solace in my soul

I arrived at a place called Peace

On top of a range of mountains

Listened to the ring of the bells

The ripples sounded and echoed in my heart

I met the Peacemaker

He was contentment in harmony

Craved for him to feed my soul on my path

The path I was walking

Candid he spoke of silence

Take note of the inner voice he said

Hand over indignation

Peel of the layers of the world

And the self sentence of abasement

EMPERORS COVE

We dived deep into the ocean

Tumbled and swirled

Swam up the waves

Reached the swirling tops

Birds sang on high as the angels

Our senses filled us with fragrances

Jasmine and Beach Roses

Spring Holly and purple Petunias

Waters power within us

It held us together pleasurable

Delightful sunlight on our faces

We dived into Emperors cove

The sea waves threw a blanket on us

Water embraced our love

Our love was everlasting

Anna Kapungu’s first book entitled ,`Water falling between words` was published in 2015. The writer has a Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree in Hotel Management from South Bank University London and a Diploma in Public Relations .After reading several of your publications ,the author felt her work may be a fit with your publishing house . The writer's poems have been published in major print and online publications, including Jonah, The Opiate, Aaduna, Mystic Blue Review ,Halcyone, HCE Review, Adelaide Literary ,Oddville Press and Blazevox.