Earth Postage Stamps--World Poets, #3 in a series

The third stamp in this series goes to Chilean poet, Gabriela Mistral. She joins Indian Rabidranath Tagore and United State's Emily Dickinson.

The Rose

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