Winged Words

Madhavi Godavarthy is a unique emerging voice in English poetry. Her poetic sensibility is reflected in her simplicity, honesty, economy of words and effectiveness of images. Her poems are an expression of her conflict that finds to resolve itself in the peace that provides a sense of poise and harmony in the innermost core of her consciousness. Her poems have been successful in bequeathing a joy of reading to the readers; a wealth of expression; precise and impregnated with nuanced freshness that keeps the reader engaged even after the poem comes to its physical end on the piece of paper the feeling of a poetic gain remains intact and lingers as the fine blended notes of a raga that wafts itself onto the rungs of the surrounding air.