The Sapphire

a haiku

By Bernadette JohnsonPublished about a year ago • 1 min read

Photo by Abhishek Chadha on Unsplash

Corundum survives

Fire and crush of earth above

Reborn as beauty.

nature poetry

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Bernadette Johnson

Bernadette “Berni” Johnson is the author of The Big Book of Spy Trivia, many tech articles, movie reviews, short stories, and two novels in perpetual editing.

You can find her blog, other work, and mailing list at bernijohnson.com.

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Babs Iversonabout a year ago
Wonderful!!!💕😊❤️

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