Mahathi CLEOPATRA
And there Cleopatra...oh so ambitious wasn't satisfied being a queen, just a queen of Egypt... threw her dragnet wide & vicious with bait of beauty and waited long and keen.
Lucky was she...the aging Caesar whale that ruled oh half the world became her prey. The whale wiggled in her embrace, turned pale, for more of cunning love started to pray.
And when one brutal Brutus butchered king, towards the able Anthony she turned her peers... first time to relish love and swing on heart-hammock. Didn't see her throne got burned!
When seized Octavian's legions; couldn't fight! Still dreaming, dreaming... died to cobra's bite.
MYDAVOLU VENKATA SESHA SATHYANARAYANA who writes with the penname 'mahathi' is a postgraduate in law and once a practising lawyer in Nellore and later an officer in Central Industries ministry. He retired from Government service in 2014
'Mahathi' is considered as one of the finest Indian English poets of modern times, whose poetry is replete with high imagery, clear diction, humour, pun and satire. He is adept with both formal and free verse though most of his later works were composed in formal verse.
So far his poetry was published as 6 collections and 3 epic long poems. His poems were published in a number of print journals and magazines like POETS INTERNATIONAL, METVERSE MUSE, ROCK PEBBLES, WESTWARD QUARTERLY MAGAZINE(Illinois) Society of Classical posts (New York), Bhakti Nivedana (US) and won many prizes. His SUNDARA KANDA was serialized in SAPTAGIRI English MAGAZINE (TTD Publications) and many other articles and poems were published in the said magazine. His poems are published regularly in the New York based journal Socieof Classical Poets and WestWard Qiarterly magazine from Illinois.
