Check out this piece at The Huffington Post on the revolutionary poetry coming out of Iran.
The piece highlights this emotional video featuring a woman doing what The Huffington Post describes as a kind of free-form poem as protesters in the blackness beyond shout "God is Great" from the unseen rooftops of Tehran.
The Huffington Post piece also notes other poems written about the unsettled instability in Iran, including poems about Neda, the young Iranian who has become an icon.
This one was written by Iranian-American poet Sholeh Wolpe.
I Am Neda
Leave the Basiji bullet in my heart,
fall to prayer in my blood,
and hush, father
-- I am not dead.
More light than mass,
I rise through you,
breathe with your eyes,
stand in your shoes, on the rooftops,
in the streets, march with you
in the cities and villages of our country
shouting through you, with you.
I am Neda--thunder on your tongue.

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