<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=464473" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Sustaining Strokes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A slight before the wintry nights, <br>The vivacious children of the street, <br>Signaled whistling with inviting voices, <br>That we all should come out of the houses, <br>To be beaten amusingly playing a game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We could not resist and came out all, <br>Gathered in the yard with no wall around, <br>And squatted in circles with bending heads, <br>Then was twisted an Anchal, pale or red, <br>Into a flog hard, longer than a yard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One of the older moved and moved around, <br>And placed silently behind one of us, <br>On the turn next, he began to beat, <br>We ran and ran around in circles, <br>Sustaining strokes on the delicate backs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While running around and being beaten, <br>I did feel perhaps the participants older, <br>Lashed to harden, toughen us more, <br>To face beats and callous odds of life, <br>When we would grow up, pacing on the path.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Muhammad+Shanazar">Muhammad Shanazar</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=464473" data-title="On Sustaining Strokes de Muhammad Shanazar" data-description="A slight before the wintry nights, The vivacious children of the street, Signaled whistling with inviting voices, That we all should come out of the houses, To be beaten amusingly playing a game. We could not resist and came out all, Gathere..."></div> </div> </div>

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