I loved these literary arrangements — and I appreciate the brave voice of poets who share of themselves like Sandeep Kumar Mishra has done in this work.

"Every book has its shining creed
Which we fail to read and believe."
Sandeep Kumar Mishra, One Heart-Many Breaks (Pg.67)

A beautifully put together collection of books that any introvert could find some relation with.

In this collection of poetry written by Sandeep Kumar Mishra, you are taken on a smooth ride of this man's life through poems. With so many poems in this book and all of them being beautiful, I decided to pick one to review:

***The Books***

'Books are in restless wintery mood,
Their voices seem urgent,
What the books of whisper, we prefer
not to mention in social circles, yet
they know more and have been where
we can't go in the clothes we wear,
- books have a lot to say, they have been to more places in more ways than one.

'They are unsettled, we are motionless,
Their voices are foreign to our ears,
They disdain, they will shake us off,
Too many voices, too many lost conventions
- as we sit still reading books they are constantly taking us on adventures, teaching us new things.

'When I open a page, fall into its frosty
profundities to sink like a stone,
I talk in cliches, They hover in time like bad
omens and flap wings as their frantic
pages cloud the sky
- when opening a book you are pulled into the pages leaving everything behind.

'They are the darkness in our bones
that keeps on sparkling like dead flames,
What a struggle they endure day and night!
Some books unopened stay to sight,
Books of some pasts have been scorched
or may long live not a page turned
- society has lost the need for books, leaving them to collect dust and be burned because they don't fit in with our views. I believe this is a reference to the band list.

'To die unread of ripe old age
or by next generation earned,
Yellowed-book-worms devoured in rage!
There's a thing common- books or men,
but a few significant can,
Every book has its shining creed
which we fail to read and believe
- as books sit on shelves being unread they age, and never being truly enjoyed.

As a book lover, I really loved this poem. I knew what he is talking about how people have given up on books.

Each poem was placed in an order that told a story. From the very beginning, I could feel pain, depression, and the struggles that one has within their own mind.

Overall the collection was nice but a bit all over the place. There were many repetitive words which threw me off a bit. It was a nice collection but not my style I suppose.