I’ll be keeping this piece at the top of the home page (perhaps updating it).
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SEARCHES – Click on any post’s icon on the home page. Scroll down nearly to the bottom of the page you’re brought to. There you will see a search field and search button. Type in your search and click the button.
VIEWING POSTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER –
Method 1: Do a search (see above) for the first Post (“Your singing voice”) or whatever post you choose to start with and click the given post icon. Then, repeating as desired, view the post and then click the circled > icon at the right bottom of the screen to go to the next post.*
Method 2: (This method takes much longer but can come in handy.) Pt. 1: Scroll down the home page till you see the “Older Posts” button and then click that button. Repeat this scrolling and clicking process until you come to the first post, (“Your singing voice”), or to whatever post you choose to start with and then click the given post icon. — Pt. 2: View the post then click the circled > icon on the right bottom of the screen to go to the next post.* Repeat Pt. 2 as desired.
*(To go to the previous post click the circled < icon on the left bottom of the screen.)
MEDALS & STARS WON (Here I somewhat haphazardly but fairly solidly award all of my poems in the first wave of posts on this site. Hopefully the discerning stranger etc. will be kept longer once guided by the gold, then maybe the silver, then maybe even the bronze. And the stars that shine in the darker aspects of ranking categories may further illuminate their awestruck minds.) (This section being in a gray block, the margin being further indented, and the words being spaced farther apart were not things I was aiming for - they just happened when I copied and pasted this section - angering. Also the line breaks in this paragraph were ridiculously messed with between editing and posting.I do like the gray block look though for this part.) 30 Gold: ●PRETTY GIRL/★TO A SITTER/★NERVOUS SPRING/●LEAVES/ ★ARGUMENT/●I would wish to fall in drops/★HARBINGERS/ ★WHAT IF MEDUSA/★THE GALLERIES/●CAT'S EYE/ ★CHILDREN IN A PARKING LOT/★MONEY MAN/●TAKING ISSUE WITH TESS OF THE d'URBERVILLES/★That crawlin'/★END OF SUMMER DEATH BLUES/★They dance around in rings—/★If my slate is wiped clean/★What do you want to do when you feel drained?/★My blue blue-eyed baby/★I'd drink in the sky! —heartless yearning/●Everyone turns on oneself/●No more/ ★Hamhanded droopy horses/★INSOMNIA FREEZE TAG/●LEO/ ●PIN SCULPTURE IMPRESSIONS/●METAPHORES OF THE FORBIDDEN/●ECONOMIC REALITY/●THUS SPAKE THE BEAN MAN/★I just stand and interact with the trees 14 Silver: ●Your singing voice/●DEVOTION/●FAKE DEATH/●LIFE/★WALKING BACKWARDS/★SKYLINE/●SUDS & STUDS/●GREEN CANOPY/ ●CANDLES/●Clinging words like— uncertainties/●Slapped in the face by logic/●As if the tears you shed could be the measure/ ★When you've made your point/●Hopeful things I've been told 9 Bronze: ●Born with a plastic pen between my fingers/●When the silence is all too much/●DESIRE/●SLAPPED/●'85 (PERFECT WAY)/●DYING BY DEGREES/★PEACE OF MIND/★I could work if I could work with somebody/●HOUSE CATS OF DURHAM Special Mentions: Most Accomplished: CHILDREN IN A PARKING LOT Best Poem: I'd drink in the sky!—heartless yearning Others?:
FIRST WAVE OF POSTED POEMS — IN POSTED ORDER
(First line(s) by themselves if no title. All caps title followed by parenthesized first line(s) if there is a title.)
Milnor:
•Your singing voice/•Born with a plastic pen between my fingers,/
•When the silence is all too much—/•DESIRE (She likened my desire)/
•SLAPPED (Her hair hung down,)/•PRETTY GIRL (Pretty girl/all alone)
/•DEVOTION (By the thickets)/•FAKE DEATH (I want to die a fake
death—)/•TO A SITTER (When I reach your age)/•LIFE (Life/is a
laughing sob)
Greenwood:
•'85 (PERFECT WAY) (You know that I'm a desperate man,)/•WALKING
BACKWARDS (Take your first steps like a man,)/•SKYLINE (When I
look at the skyline I can't help but love it)
Lancaster:
•NERVOUS SPRING (Oh Spring-/it is a nervous thing.)/•LEAVES (I had
learned to hate God,)/•DYING BY DEGREES (We don't seem to care/
when we're walking on thin air.)•ARGUMENT (Do I walk so blindly)/
•SUDS & STUDS ("Dude..."//Suds not studs)
McBride:
•GREEN CANOPY (A green canopy - near above.)/•I would wish to fall
in drops,/•PEACE OF MIND (Peace of mind — is hard to find)/
•CANDLES (Are we burning, shrinking candles)/•HARBINGERS (Birds!
/black in the city night's white WINTERtime.)/•WHAT IF MEDUSA
(What if...//Medusa had a heart of gold,)/•THE GALLERIES((Libr. ...)//
This town hasn't the mercy)/•CAT'S EYE (The cat's iris landscape—)/
•CHILDREN IN A PARKING LOT (Of children's laughter)/•Clinging
words like— uncertainties/•MONEY MAN (I am the money man,)/
•Oh stupid mantra/•TAKING ISSUE WITH TESS OF THE
d'URBERVILLES (Izz Huett you darling)
Westmoreland:
•That crawlin'/vampire's you're what?!/•END OF SUMMER DEATH
BLUES (As afternoon darkens,)/•They dance around in rings—/•If
my slate is wiped clean
Columbus:
•What do you want to do when you feel drained?/•My blue blue-
eyed baby/•I'd drink in the sky—heartless yearning -/•slapped in the
face by logic/•Everyone turns on oneself;
Comstock:
•No more/kissing the air and all the love that's in it
Marlborough:
•Hamhanded droopy horses
Summit:
•As if the tears you shed could be the measure
New Mexico:
•INSOMNIA FREEZE TAG (Even in their sleep (unfair!))/•LEO (Leo,
noble dog of the North New Mexican highlands)/•PIN SCULPTURE
IMPRESSIONS (Like pin sculpture impressions the legs spread—
support under blankets;)/•WHEN YOU'VE MADE YOUR POINT
(When...)/•METAPHORS OF THE FORBIDDEN (Metaphors...)/•I
COULD WORK IF I COULD WORK WITH SOMEBODY (I could...)/
•ECONOMIC REALITY (Make me an apprentice)/•THUS SPAKE THE
BEAN MAN (I took enormous pride in the way that I stated)
Rochester:
•I just stand and interact with the trees/•HOUSE CATS OF DURHAM
(EdnaCreampuff & Gertrude Brownie sat down once for tea.)/
•Hopeful things I've been told
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Writings By Erick Heins 
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