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PURCHASE LINK: THE TAVERN ON OLD LOG CABIN ROAD, BOOK OF NARRATIVE POETRY

PURCHASE LINK: THE TAVERN ON OLD LOG CABIN ROAD, BOOK OF NARRATIVE POETRY

This product is a Book Of Narrative Poetry, penned by the Poet. 5x9"" in size. THE TAVERN ON OLD LOG CABIN ROAD has much poetic license in it. As a fictional location, the characters in the narrative poetry following are Read more

This product is a Book Of Narrative Poetry, penned by the Poet. 5x9"" in size.

THE TAVERN ON OLD LOG CABIN ROAD has much poetic license in it. As a fictional location, the characters in the narrative poetry following are also fictional. However, all of the narrative poetry following is based on actual places in Randolph County, North Carolina. They follow the times, the geography of the county with it’s streams, roads, history, and townships.

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OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC DECEMBER 21ST, 2005!

THE TAVERN ON OLD LOG CABIN ROAD has much poetic license in it. As a
fictional location, the characters in the narrative poetry following are also
fictional.
However, all of the narrative poetry following is based on actual places in Randolph County, North Carolina. They follow the times, the geography of the county with it’s streams, roads, history, and townships. While Old Log Cabin Road exists to this day, the actual location of The Tavern is a bit south of there.

The old chimney that stands just to the south of the intersection of these two roads, has been the inspiration for all the narrative poetry that is found in this book.

A double chimney of the old Tavern building.

What original remains of The Tavern are now only the double, two story hearth, and the foundation stones laid out showing the enormous size of the place, a depression that was once the cold house, remains of a separate set of timbers that might have been an adjacent nice sized old home, and some barn areas with rotten iron posts and fence remnants. All else found in this book are dictates of the muse, and dutifully written down in a rush my this writer in order to not lose what the muse showed me to write.

This Poet was on his way to Weymouth North Carolina Center For The Arts, in Southern Pines, North Carolina; for a week long residency there. In January of 2017, the snow was just starting to come down when he saw, and passed by, the old chimney of what was to become The Tavern. Turning around, and going back, then was inspired by whom I have come to know as my green-haired muse. The first chapter of this book was started in minutes after getting to Weymouth and getting my computer set up in the corner room named for Thomas Wolfe.

I have found that such is the way of muses... dictating inspiration, leading by intuition, and the urgency to get it all down before the muse rounds the poetic corner and goes out of sight.

Six hundred thirty-three years ago, when Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was written, well, maybe not exactly six hundred thirty three -the tales were written in a period from 1387-1400. 633 sounds better than “a period from.” Geoffrey Chaucer wrote over 17 thousand rhyming lines, about a group of people traveling together in a storytelling contest. The poetry not only rhymes, it is in a narrative form, and would today be considered in the “Epic” class.

Not too many poets have chosen to write in such a way today in 2025.

The Tavern is a series of narrative poems spanning 240 years, Starting in 1777, and ending in 2022. It is poetry about North Carolinians being human beings in amongst their lives. The places in the chapters their travels take them to are not specifically for one place to another, their travels and the stories told about them are from places to times, to places within their lives, There are many locations covered as places, and always with a southern view, complete with well-placed “southernisms” to give some realistic auralism to the chapters. The chapters are organized in somewhat of a chronological order, however the time between chapters are not from one day to the next, rather they are annotating the tales of specific family members, kept alive by storytelling around an large family get together, such as a Thanksgiving meal or perhaps a Christmas dinner having been eaten, and the family folks talked then. -Ray Whitaker
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THE TAVERN ON OLD LOG CABIN ROAD

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This year , this is my second book offered to lovers of poetry.

However, that is another set of excellent poems altogether.

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