{"id":1203,"date":"2012-03-25T23:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T23:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:17:20","slug":"the-lion-pauses-by-henry-7-reneau-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-lion-pauses-by-henry-7-reneau-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion Pauses by henry 7. reneau, jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/church.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1204 lazyload\" title=\"church\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/church-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/church-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/church.jpg 810w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/176;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Lion Pauses<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by henry 7. reneau, jr.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, February 21st standing at the podium,<br \/>\nThe Audubon Ballroom in Harlem<\/p>\n<p>Preachin to the choir &amp; pauses<br \/>\nIn a moment between tick &amp; tock, a d&#8217;j&#8217; vu that hovered<\/p>\n<p>A glimpse of repetition,<br \/>\nEpiphany that sowed sorrow in the stutter of his heart;<\/p>\n<p>His blood recounts the iron weight of shackles<br \/>\n&amp; a balmy ocean breeze soothing an equatorial shore,<\/p>\n<p>The sound of whiplash striking flesh &amp; shots ring out<br \/>\nHas happened all before as in, Pandora&#8217;s Box,<\/p>\n<p>When freedom became the dream<br \/>\n&amp; hope, handled with a chain inside a frozen scream<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>henry 7. reneau, jr. has been published in various journals\/anthologies, among them, Nameless Magazine; Subliminal Interiors Literary Arts Magazine; The Chaffey Review; The View From Here; FOLLY Magazine; Entering; Tule Review; BlazeVOX; Black Heart Magazine; Forty Ounce Bachelors; Suisun Valley Review; and Tidal Basin Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lion Pauses by henry 7. reneau, jr. Sunday, February 21st standing at the podium, The Audubon Ballroom in Harlem Preachin to the choir &amp; pauses In a moment between tick &amp; tock, a d&#8217;j&#8217; vu that hovered A glimpse of repetition, Epiphany that sowed sorrow in the stutter of his heart; His blood recounts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-123","category-nature-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}