Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Rejection

rejection
noun 1. denial, veto, dismissal, exclusion, abandonment, spurning, casting off, disowning, thumbs down, renunciation, repudiation, eschewal
Collins Essential Thesaurus 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2005, 2006








“Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good”
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)


*Photo By Rafael Iturrioz



Well, I Have Lost You


Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say what you will, kings in a tumbrel rarely
Went to their deaths more proud than this one went.
Some nights of apprehension and hot weeping
I will confess; but that's permitted me;
Day dried my eyes; I was not one for keeping
Rubbed in a cage a wing that would be free.
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly,
And no such summer as the one before.
Should I outlive this anguish—and men do—
I shall have only good to say of you.

Edna St. Vincent Millay