Excerpt for Poems in my Heart by Joanna Marie delos Santos, available in its entirety at Smashwords

In Love with Peony


Such a fragrance that lingers every night

Engulfs my heart when it aches so much

In my empty room you never come

Yet I’ve seen your beauty, the eternal one


You belong where the sun shines with smile

Like Goddess that would kiss a poet in my hand

Not to gleam of darkness but moonlight

Where my soul asleep in the cold forest dim…


I’m incomplete when you blinded me

Through which the eye seeks for your LOVE

To see again the color of those petals

But I might drink and taste a glass of flora!


I bestowed you with my sole self

That glimpse of yours, enchanted me for so long

The scent that every ADONIS hungers of

Just like a bee sucking your forbidden nectar


I cannot see what the world must be!

Forlorn! You deceived me a cheating elf.

Now I’m drowsy found in the path of nowhere

Have to sleep and be in love with easeful DEATH!














The Strings of Guitar



One voice is calling me

In the midst of my silence

It awakened all my senses

And the tears fell down my cheek


I never knew that it as you

Who broke my heart in pieces of two

You locked so many memories

And somehow it destroyed my soul


Six strings are so important

It is the love that grows a year

I never thought that it’s your guitar

The melodies of midnight blue


Pain seems to last

Your love not seem to care

You took my heart completely

And then you left me with a broken heart


You sang a song of sadness

Completely with the strings of guitar

Telling that your love is endless

And now your love has end


And now that I’m in silence

With LOVE you called me once more

Holding only your guitar

The strings of fresh memories


Why do you have to leave me?

When I’m pleasing him not to leave?

Hope I’d learn to forget

The mistakes that we have made


I think this love is too much

The pain will just fade away

Leave me together with your guitar

To forget you with our memories…







Thee Imprisoned Me


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