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Threads of Trust is a manifestation of an ordinary person’s life to discover love, sensuality, separation, and itself. Each poem lingers in the duality of life between the erotic and exotic, the lost and the aware, the breaking and the healing, and the life and the death itself. These poems will take readers on a subconscious journey where longing often defeats the logic, a paradoxical reality of all living well. These poems will leave the readers with the task of weaving the broken threads of trust. Perhaps this is what poetry is—a perpetually broken thread.
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Threads of Trust is a manifestation of an ordinary person’s life to discover love, sensuality, separation, and itself. Each poem lingers in the duality of life between the erotic and exotic, the lost and the aware, the breaking and the healing, and the life and the death itself.
These poems will take readers on a subconscious journey where longing often defeats the logic, a paradoxical reality of all living well. These poems will leave the readers with the task of weaving the broken threads of trust.
Perhaps this is what poetry is—a perpetually broken thread.
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04/01/2023
Khushi Sunderka
Book: Threads Of Trust Author: Ankit Mishra ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wish we were entangled Like a helix Of twisted emotions A physical emotions Of biological imaginations! This poem is just so perfect, no? When I picked this book I had high hopes from this book and it absolutely stand on it. This book is a collection of poems based on different emotional phases. Each and every poem has a very deep feeling of love, hope, faith, fear and life. My favorite poems are Love Is Synthesis, Lost Words, Being Perfect, and ofcourse Threads of Trust. These above the poems are somewhere so connected to me. These poems will leave the readers with the task of weaving the broken threads of trust. Coming back to the cover of the book is quite attractive and eye-catching. The combination of black and white is the symbol of "being forever "and "never ending" colors. Some books stay with you for a while and this is one such book. I finished this book in a single go as it was a short read but worth it. I definitely recommend this book .
Threads of Trust is a debut poetry collection that refuses the easy consolations of romantic verse, choosing instead to inhabit the paradoxes where love actually lives—between desire and distance, sensuality and separation, the body's knowledge and the mind's refusal. These poems do not resolve their contradictions; they ask the reader to hold them. The collection moves through subconscious landscapes where longing defeats logic, a phrase that captures the book's governing tension: the irrational persistence of feeling in the face of reason's demands.
What distinguishes this work is its willingness to linger in duality—the erotic and the exotic, the lost and the aware, breaking and healing, life and death—without collapsing these poles into false synthesis. The voice is intimate yet unsentimental, mapping an ordinary person's life discovering its own contours through encounter and absence. Readers finish these poems not with answers, but with the active task of weaving broken threads, the book's final image left deliberately incomplete.
What kind of reading experience does Threads of Trust offer?
Threads of Trust offers an intimate, reflective reading experience that moves at the pace of inner discovery rather than narrative momentum. The poems create a subconscious journey through love's contradictions—erotic longing alongside emotional distance, moments of clarity tangled with loss. The feeling it leaves behind is not resolution but recognition: the sense of having named something paradoxical yet true about desire and attachment. It rewards readers who are comfortable sitting with ambiguity and emotional complexity, who seek poetry that mirrors life's refusal to choose between breaking and healing.
Who is this poetry collection best suited for and what does it expect of its reader?
- Readers drawn to confessional and intimate verse that explores love, sensuality, and separation without sentimentality.
- Those interested in Indian English poetry that centres ordinary experience rather than grand themes or historical sweep.
- Readers comfortable with erotic imagery and emotional vulnerability presented alongside philosophical reflection.
- Anyone navigating the paradoxes of attachment—how longing persists despite reason, how trust breaks and tentatively rebuilds.
- Readers who value poetry as a mirror for their own subconscious landscapes, expecting participation rather than passive consumption.
What makes the treatment of love and longing in this collection distinctive?
The collection's distinctiveness lies in its refusal to separate eros from philosophy, sensuality from self-awareness. Rather than presenting desire as either celebration or lament, these poems insist on holding contradictions simultaneously—the erotic and exotic, the lost and the aware—as lived realities. The voice is neither confessional in the spill-everything mode nor detached in the observer mode; it occupies a middle ground where longing defeats logic yet remains knowable. This approach grounds abstract emotion in bodily experience while inviting readers into the interpretive work of weaving meaning from fragmented threads.
How does this collection speak to contemporary Indian readers navigating modern relationships?
In contemporary India, where urban mobility and digital connection create new patterns of intimacy and distance, Threads of Trust speaks to the lived experience of relationships across separation—physical, emotional, temporal. The poems address a generation negotiating personal desire within evolving social frameworks, where traditional narratives of love and commitment no longer fully account for experience. The collection's focus on duality and paradox resonates with readers balancing modern independence and ancestral expectations of attachment, seeking a vocabulary for love that honours complexity rather than resolution, the breaking and healing that coexist in contemporary connection.
What does Threads of Trust leave the reader with after finishing it?
- A vocabulary for naming the paradoxes of intimacy—how longing and logic, desire and awareness, can coexist without resolution.
- The emotional residue of having travelled through subconscious landscapes that mirror the reader's own unspoken attachments and losses.
- An active task: the collection invites readers to weave their own broken threads, completing the interpretive work the poems begin.
- A sense of recognition rather than revelation—the feeling of having seen one's interior life reflected in language.
- Permission to hold contradictions, to be simultaneously broken and healing, erotic and aware, without choosing sides.
