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by PaulaB 
I love your poem. I wonder if you need the apostrophe in ply’s, though? If you mean it to be a shortened version of supplies I think maybe “plies” might work. The apostrophe to me implies a sense of possession, and maybe it is just me but that doesn’t seem to fit what I thought you were trying to convey. I also wonder if “then” would be a better word than “than” in “twinkling energy then gone” — of course word choice is personal in poetry and maybe I’m not catching the drift. Your words and thoughts are lovely. Thank you for sharing them!
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:) suggest away…and you’re right…plies works better. And I am always getting than and then mixed up.
And thank you…poetry is a personal thing, but spelling errors are spelling errors ;-)
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Beautiful!
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