Thursday, July 31, 2008

The Rose,from "Women in Praise of the Sacred"


The treasure at the heart of the rose

is your own heart's treasure.

Scatter it as the rose does;

your pain becomes hers to measure.


Scatter it in a song,

or in one great love's desire.

Do not resist the rose

lest you burn in its fire.


~Gabriela Mistral

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