Poems Please

By K.B. Chandra Raj

K.B.Chandra Raj was born and raised in Malaysia with roots in Sri Lanka (once known as Serendib and later Ceylon) is an accountant by training. He served a five-year period of
articles with the prestigious firm of chartered accountants, Turquand Youngs and Company and has worked as chief accountant in Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone as Accountant General, Liberia and the United States of America.

Chandra and his wife Siva have been blessed with two loving grandchildren – granddaughter Neela Chandraraj and grandson Deeran Vermeij.

He presently lives in tranquil retirement with his wife Siva in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.A.

His six previous publications:
1. For the Love of Shakespeare
2. Your Sense of Humor – Don’t Leave Home Without It
3. Mining my own life
4. Reminiscing in tranquility of a time long gone by.
5. Itty Bitty Tiny Tall Tales
6. Rhyme to Pass the Time

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jul 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781698708775

K.B. Chandra Raj

K.B. Chandra Raj was born and raised in Malaysia. He was trained as an accountant and worked in that field before retiring. He and his family immigrated to the United States in 1985. Chandra Raj and his wife, Siva, have two grown children and two grandchildren and live in Hamden, Connecticut. He is also the author of For the love of Shakespeare, Your sense of humor—Don’t leave home without it, Mining my own life, and Reminiscing in tranquility of a time long gone by.

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This book is

dedicated to:

Friends who are family,

Watchful over our sickness,

Kindness in our sorrow,

Glad in our prosperity,

Helpful in our adversity,

True in counsel and in whom

we place our trust completely.

Thank you, Mates.

One hand washes the other.

All along I’ve longed to write good verses,

A tizzy-whizzy verse for every occasion,

Verses whose rhythms do not go tumbling

bumbling and rumbling,

Verses whose words do not grumble and fumble,

Words that do not make your wits numb - as a

frostbitten thumb - that can pick up no crumb.

School days and playdays,

From numerous applications

(Tell me about it)

To endless rejections,

(Can never forget it)

From month-by-month salary

To redundancy,

(It was rough, it was tough)

From adolescence to now obsolescence;

(What an odyssey)

Even though in search of quip and quiddity,

sense and sensibility, I have to sit all alone and

apart in total obscurity.

Ah! Writing verses,

The only vocation to which I have no aversion,

Writing verses,

(Did I hear someone say from verse to worse)

Hoping men and women of every age,

From age to age,

Their eyes will settle on every page.

You now call me a sage?

Ah! Well, if you insist,

Reluctantly will I accept the appellation.

Thank You.

In any undertaking be it as monumental as the conquest of Mt. Everest, the first to run the sub 4 – minute mile or as modest as this publication (Poems Please) one needs help to successfully get across the finish line.

What Tenzing Norgay was to Edmund Hillary in the conquest of Everest, Chris Chataway to Roger