ndtewarie

Just a simple poet Book Published: A Garden of Happiness ; A LONELY VOICE; DRINK FROM MY CALABASH; MANKIND IS NOT VERY KIND; RORAIMA; EL DORADO; NOVEL: THE BERBICIAN .               Born at Nabaclis Village in Guyana, a few miles from the Capital, Georgetown, Naraine came to the Berbice province when he was about 10 years old. At Bush Lot he went to school and later became teacher and taught at the same school he attended, the Lachmansingh Canadian Mission School. He eventually taught all over Guyana including Anna Regina on the Essequibo Coast and then at Redeemer Lutheran in Campbellville, Kitty and finally at Bush Lot, W.C. Berbice where he was Trained in the In-Service Training System. (You teach in the day and go to lectures at nights for 2 years). Naraine had a yearning to study Art abroad and eventually went to New York in 1969 where he studied Commercial Art & Design. He graduated with Honors as a Commercial Artist. He still dabbles in oil, watercolor and ink. He lived in Manhattan and then migrated to Canada where he joined his wife and 4-year-old son Sunil, in 1972, lived in Scarborough for about 12 years before he moved to Pickering. He tried teaching in the Public Schools a few years but was always reprimanded for his too strict discipline. He went into real estate, spent 25 years with Century 21 then opened his own firm called Global Realty & Financial Inc. He has been writing doggerels and ditties since he was 12 and now writes poetry. He just published his first 2 books A Lonely Voice and Drink from my Calabash (100 poems). He's working on a novel, The Berbician and 4 other books of 200 more poems My Life is too Short, Things We Don’t Understand, and A Portrait in Verse. Presently retired, his hobbies are writing, reading, art, cricket and fishing. His favourite quote, which he got from his grandmother his Nanee is: “He who tries to ride two asses bound to fall on his own" A Garden of Happiness by NARAINE DATT