The contour lines of written words
Can birth a mountain out of ink.
The contrast of white and black
Creates the light that hides
Under the canopies
That dances with shade
Deep in the valleys.
A fork in the road
Leads a traveler
To the left or right.
A poet on the road
Is left to write
Beyond actuality.
Cursive is persuasive
Unifying characters into one.
Bridges have been built
As walls have fallen down.
Conflicts resolve,
New chronicles begin,
Renovated worlds
Are authored on these pages.
And at the expense of trees
We can dream about a forest.
Tyler Carroll was born into a military family and reluctantly enlisted after a failed attempt at college. After his time in the service, where he received numerous awards, he obtained a Bachelor’s in Business and is working on an MFA in Writing. While doing so, he co-founded an independent publishing company, Dead Reckoning Collective. DRC's first poetry anthology, In Love... & War, became a #1 New Release on Amazon. Tyler had a handful of poems included in that anthology. Between writing and running a business, Tyler is a husband, father of 3, and full-time firefighter in a suburb of Dallas, TX.
If you enjoyed “Typography”, explore more of Tyler’s work in Fact & Memory.
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