Listening to the Quiet

By Raymond Cooper

is the third installment
to Cooper’s line of poetry
following look & see me
and fading footprints.

As with Cooper’s previous
works, we are taken to a
place that sometimes can
only be found between
a thought and a dream.

Happy and sad both
haunt the following pages.
With simple illustrations
and striking images
this book should reach
out and touch a feeling
in every reader.

Again,
listening to the quiet
is a continuation of
Raymond Cooper’s
philosophy and feeling
about love and living.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Sep 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9781490790985

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 2018 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: 978-1-4907-9094-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4907-9093-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4907-9098-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018911197

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Contents

Author’s Note

A Time Away

A French Time

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Speaking To God On Sunday

6.

7.

8.

9.

Morning

Night

10.

11.

Roma Street

12.

13.

14.

Learning

15.

16.

17.

18.

19.

Fighting Monsters

Grafton

Friendly Shadows

Time

Welcome Home

Magic Quite Enough

20.

Home

21.

Borrowed Time

22.

Richard

23.

Come Out, Come Out

24.

25.

26.

27.

28.

Sandra

29.

30.

To Understand

Wishing

Leaving Softly

Lessons

Roses

Adam

This book is for a time

I’ve yet to reach.

I hope its kind

with open arms.

You’ve gone,

and all that’s left is the quiet.

author’s note

        Listening is something I’ve always much preferred.

        In a room full of people, each attempting to make a

        louder sound than the other,

        I was that one person

        hidden in the darkest corner

        neither agreeing or disagreeing

        on world events

        or if the local corner

        should have a stop sign erected.