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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.