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The Best of Mad Swirl : 07.20.13
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." Petrarch••• The Mad...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 07.27.13
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." Aldous Huxley••• The Mad Gallery •••Aldous Huxley (digital illustration above) by Johnny O, one of over 20 featured artists currently...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 08.04.13
“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.” Ani DiFrancoHello, Johnny O here. Breakin' the mold a bit this week with this intro note because...
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the Best of Mad Swirl : 08.10.13
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word” Mata Hari••• The Poetry Forum •••This last week in Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum...we stood still for a stop-voiced, stop-eared, heat seeking comfort...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 08.17.13
“It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it” Mae Westdigital illustration by Johnny O••• The Poetry Forum •••This last week in Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum...we...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 08.24.13
"No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 08.31.13
"I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward." Seamus Heaney••• The Mad Gallery •••Poetry Never Sleeps (above) by this month's featured artist,...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 09.07.13
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." Alfred Lord Tennyson••• The Mad Gallery •••Noir (above) by this month's featured artist, Tyler Malone.••• The Poetry Forum •••This...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 09.14.13
"I hope that my story, I hope that my life is an encouragement for people..." Iyanla Vanzant••• The Mad Gallery •••Homeland (above) by this month's featured artist, Tyler Malone.••• The Poetry Forum...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 09.21.13
"All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen." Stevie Smith••• The Mad Gallery •••The Longest Mile (above) by this month's featured artist, Tyler Malone.•••...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 09.28.13
"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." Henri Frederic Amiel••• The Mad Gallery •••Corn Hill (above) by this month's featured artist, Tyler...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.05.13
"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life." Robert Penn Warren ••• The Mad Gallery •••Fat Bottom Girls (above) by this month's featured artist, Tyler Malone.••• The Poetry Forum •••This last week...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.12.13
"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me." Eugenio Montale••• The Mad Gallery •••Pioneer of No Frontier (above) by this month's featured artist, Tyler Malone.••• The Poetry Forum...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.19.13
"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself" Jack Kerouac••• The Mad Gallery •••Digital illustration (above) by Johnny O.••• The Poetry Forum •••This last week in Mad Swirl's Poetry Forum... we...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 10.26.13
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." Edgar Allan Poe••• The Mad Gallery •••Conversing with Ravens (above) by this month's featured...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.02.13
"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully." William C. Bryant••• The Mad Gallery...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.09.13
"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard." Anne Sexton••• The Mad Gallery •••When There Was Ivory (above) by this month's featured artist, Pd Lietz.••• The Poetry Forum •••This last week...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.16.13
"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else." Georgia O'Keeffe••• The Mad Gallery •••Another School Shooting...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.23.13
"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning!" Voltaire••• The Mad Gallery •••Reverse Osmosis (above) by this month's featured artist, Pd Lietz.••• The...
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The Best of Mad Swirl : 11.24.13 - 12.07.13
"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." Nelson Mandela••• The Mad Gallery •••Digital illustration (above) by Johnny O.••• The Poetry Forum...
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