**English Poems ** The Boys Of Winter By __Alan Bold__ * Snow around their boots, they gather * Like and embodiment of the weather: * Huddled there, herded like cattle. * They are animals dressed for battle. * * One smokes, another sprawls, * Three of them sloganise the walls * They look askance at Princes Street * Defiantly in their defeat: * Their breaths clouds in the cold. * * These young boys, horribly old, * Having nothing (heads shorn of hair). * The do nothing, pollute the air * With verbal debris, have nothing to declare. * They look ahead and blankly stare: * Their eyes are onions of despair.