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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 02.23.13
“All in all is all we are.” Kurt Cobain•••••••••••This last week in Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum... we couldn't unfreeze frozen love, no light could shine through unpulled blinds; we awaited the warm...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 03.02.13
“There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.” Lou ReedDream City (above) by Adam Yeater, one of over 20 featured artists currently coloring the virtual walls in Mad Swirl's...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 03.09.13
“It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.” MichelangeloI enter the void armed only with a paint brush (above) by David Arthur-Simons, one of over 20 featured artists currently coloring...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 03.16.13
“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.” ~ Seamus HeaneyHouse Noshing (above) by this month's featured artist Jack Miller.Right away, I could tell that...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 03.23.13
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate.” ~ T. S. Eliot Her Menace-ness (above) by...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 03.30.13
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.” ~ Vincent van Gogh•••••••••••This last week in Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum... we whipped up a wild wind to...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 04.06.13
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.” Maya AngelouHeart (above) by Jon Marquette, one of over 20 featured artists currently...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 04.13.13
“We are all born mad. Some remain so.” Samuel Beckettsimpleman (above) by Halo Jones, one of over 20 featured artists currently coloring the virtual walls in Mad Swirl's eclectic electronic collective...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 04.20.13
“None but ourselves can free our minds.” Bob Marley•••••••••••This last week in Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum... we sluffed life's slew to hear enough talking sleepwalking to tighten our belt and take a...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 04.27.13
“No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?” C. Day LewisTearing Opals (above) by Christian Millet, one of...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 05.04.13
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” May SartonJello Mirror (above) by K.R. Copeland/Jeff Crouch, one of over 20 featured artists currently...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 05.11.13
“The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.” Salvador DalîBirth Of Insanity (above) by Johnny Olson, one of over 20 featured artists currently coloring the virtual walls in...
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The Best of Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum : 05.18.13
“A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill,what and when to burn, or even how to theorize.It reminds you... where and when and howyou are living and might live,it is a wick of...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 05.25.13
“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.” Bob Dylandigital illustration by Johnny O•••••••••••This last week in Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum... we hefted hydrocarbon hyjinx to map the milk o'...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 06.01.13
“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.” John DrinkwaterInconspicuous (above) by Paula Lietz, one of over 20 featured artists...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 06.08.13
“The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.” Frank Lloyd...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 06.15.13
“A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.” Rene Char••• The Mad Gallery •••Blue Sketch (above) by Ana Vohryzek, one of over 20 featured artists currently coloring the virtual walls in Mad...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 06.22.13
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” Plutarch••• The Mad Gallery •••Look (above) by Jim Fuess, one of over 20 featured artists currently coloring the virtual walls in Mad...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 06.29.13
"A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!" Luigi Pirandello••• The Mad Gallery •••Paradise by the Sea series (above) by Toni Martin.We are proud to...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 07.07.13
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you." Frida Kahlo••• The Mad Gallery •••Paradise by the Sea series (above) by Toni Martin, one of...
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