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Emotionally Connecting to a Heroine in Tehran

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[Editor’s Note: As fresh as this morning’s headlines: Our resident global poetess,  Dr.  Janet Hoult of Sunset Park, retrieves her earlier ties with Iran, and she makes a direct family connection with the martyred young woman Neda Agha-Soltan of Tehran, whom the world is mourning.

[In 1953, Dr. Hoult graduated from high school in Iran where her father was  a foreign service officer. A member of a poetry group in Santa Monica, Dr. Hoult has a granddaughter named Neda. We present the  first of her  two  tributes.]

Neda’s Gift

Neda means “Gift of God” in Farsi, or so we’ve been told

In Arabic, it’s “Morning Dew” promising a day of gold

Today we hear that Neda means “Voice” of people like us

Who dare to speak out against fraud, lies and injustice.
 
Their “voices” are stilled by violence, like
Neda in Tehran

Protesting election fraud, her blood spills on the ground,

Her life is lost at a great cost to more than family and friends

Leaders must now find other ways to make the protests end.
 
By shedding the people’s blood,
they’ve created a new urgency

Neda’s blood was not shed in vain,
but gives life to a growing insurgency.

Dr. Hoult may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com

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