<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=401177" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>All Apologies to Athene</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm so sorry dear Athene<br>lighting guiding <br>gentle musing queen<br>for my youth is rude <br>past acts oft've been obscene<br>my apologies for all I said I did not mean</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh wait! do not leave Athene! <br>For I never meant to break Hermes' playful wings<br>locked in the tangled strangle hold<br>throws of emotive word wrestling </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do apologize oh Dear Athene<br>for all the dissonance I disgorged <br>in Orpheus's pure Pierian Spring<br>all the holes poked in Melpomene's self esteem<br>I never meant to make Thalia cry<br>It was wrong of me to so wantonly feed<br> my self destructive side<br>I need your love please<br>Oh Athene wait don't go! <br>send back to me my fair sweet Erato! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh Athene <br>although I tease Sapho <br>and quite a lot<br>henceforth <br>I give my solemn word to stop</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gift of beauty you've granted me<br>every stanza every verse<br> line and syllable of my poetry<br>forever grateful shall I be<br>I never dare take your voice for granted</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a life long habit toying with human sensibility <br>as a child twas you whom sensed this in me <br>my authentic American egodacity! <br>Athene, you keep me humble <br>impel me forward making sure I stay strong <br>illuminating all I write <br>never judging editing or censoring <br>when what I write is wrong</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh Athenaeum! Athenaeum! <br>Athenaeum established eternal upon the earth! <br>Glorious Age of Athenaeum! <br>Renaissance Awakening and Rebirth!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gregory+Allen+Uhan">Gregory Allen Uhan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=401177" data-title="All Apologies to Athene de Gregory Allen Uhan" data-description="I'm so sorry dear Athene lighting guiding gentle musing queen for my youth is rude past acts oft've been obscene my apologies for all I said I did not mean Oh wait! do not leave Athene! For I never meant to break Hermes' playful wings locked i..."></div> </div> </div>

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