Opening of the Heart- is Prakash Mahajan's first collection of fifty poems. Most of the poems voice responses to deeply personal experiences, situations and events. The expression is generally transparent and shows no excessive fondness for figuration and embellishment.

Although one can easily group many of these poems in thematic dusters like love, music, nature, tribute to artists poets and the great people( like J. Krishnamurti ) and reflections on the nature of suffering grief,the mood is generally sombre. A lucid and laconic expressions of this entire emotional gamut is available in in lines like this : "I have been in love/ I wait and face my gloom so dark"(The Floating Fear).This abiding premonitory tone is reinforced in a powerful phrase like "But I know ,hurricane comes one day" (The Awareness). In ''Heart Patient' it is dramatized more impersonally.

One easily notices the poet's love of music. Indian classical...