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    Crackers and Crumbs
    Crackers and Crumbs
    Crackers and Crumbs
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    Crackers and Crumbs

    By Barry Plamondon

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    A poetry book which is a varied garden of verses by Barry Plamondon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSilver Bow Publishing
    Release dateMar 16, 2017
    ISBN9781927616307
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      Crackers and Crumbs - Barry Plamondon

      Crackers and Crumbs

      By Barry Plamondon

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      Title: Crackers and Crumbs

      Author: Barry Plamondon

      Cover Photo: Candice James

      Cover Design: Candice James

      Layout Design: Candice James

      © 2016 Silver Bow Publishing

      All rights reserved including the right to reproduce or translate this book or any portions thereof, in any form

      ISBN 9782927626307 (e-book)

      ISBN 978-1-927616-24-6

      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Plamondon, Barry, author Crackers & crumbs / Barry Plamondon.

      Poems.ISBN 978-1-927616-24-6 (paperback)

      I. Title.  II. Title: Crackers and crumbs.

      PS8631.L3C73 2016 C811'.6 C2016-906209-0

      ISBN 9782927626307 (e-book)

      Silver Bow Publishing

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      Email: info@silverbowpublishing.com

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      Books by Barry Plamondon

      This ‘n’ That, Bric a Brac (Friesen Press 2016)

      Silver Bow Publishing

      Box 5 - 720 Sixth St.,

      New Westminster, BC

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      Email: info@silverbowpublishing.com

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      "Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible

      and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

      ~ Saint Francis of Assisi

      Acknowledgements

      I thank the many people who have crossed my path of poetry and enriched it, including Candice James, the staff of Silver Bow Publishing, and fellow poet Deborah Kelly. I especially thank my lovely wife Sandi and our beautiful children Danielle, Jarred, Dominique, Jakob, Desirée, Juliette and Darian for their love and support.

      ~ Barry Plamondon 

      Tiny Words

      Why? you ask, taking me into your trust

      Because, I answer, because I know I must

      To put these tiny words onto a page

      When I know I am neither a poet nor a sage

      This would be difficult to explain to you

      When in truth it dumbfounds me too

      I’ve taken my share of what life had to give

      In the end the best I could hope for was to simply live

      And when my downtrodden spirit needed a lift

      The good Lord saw fit to give me a gift

      It was those same tiny words

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