Fading Footprints

By Raymond Cooper

This is a book about love, loneliness, and solitude. The overall theme of this collection of poetry is a search for something elusive. Its a search for that person or place weve all dreamt of at some time in our life. Accompanied with haunting images, it will no doubt reach out and touch a feeling in every reader.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jan 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781490753171

Raymond Cooper

Raymond Cooper has traveled extensively throughout his life, and though spending much of his time in Hawai’i, also lives and writes in Aireys Inlet, Australia. He has worked as a lifeguard, flight attendant, photographer, actor, film director, gardener, and more. His skills as both a photographer and a writer allow him to share his most private thoughts and times with us. During a recent interview on a Boston radio program he was asked “what comes first – the words, or the image?” He answered “the feeling”

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Copyright 2015 Raymond Cooper.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

isbn: 978-1-4907-5316-4 (sc)

isbn: 978-1-4907-5315-7 (hc)

isbn: 978-1-4907-5317-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015900000

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Contents

THE FIRST STEPS

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2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

JULY MAN

8.

9.

10.

A TIME TO REMEMBER

11.

12.

13.

14.

PUTTING OUT FIRES

15.

16.

SON

17.

18.

TENNANT PAST

19.

20.

21.

22.

A PASSING FLOWER

23.

HONEST GEORGE

THINGS THAT COULD

24.

25.

26.

27.

28.

29.

30.

REGRETS

31.

32.

33.

34.

RIDING WITH GYPSIES

35.

36.

37.

38.

39.

MY GIFT

IN MY ABSENCE

This is a book for Jillian

the person who stayed

by my side

when at times even I

had sought better company.

Don’t be afraid to die,

be afraid you have never lived.

author’s note

Although my previous book look & see me was a collection of thoughts/poems written over