Maintaining Standards. for M'Lady Emma

narrative verse just for fun

Maintaining standards.

 

To make the grade in Biggleswade.

Teatime is taken seriously.

The cake you serve must be home made

 and rather plain not too fancy.

 

Of course the table must be laid

with your best china on display

A snow white cloth the finest made.

Things must be done the proper way.

 

The good ladies of Biggleswade.

Intent on keeping standards high,

 will try their hardest to persuade

 new ladies that they must not buy

 

Rich fresh cream cakes to serve for tea.

They must maintain tradition.

I’m not convinced too easily

and so I wait’ til they have gone.

 

My man and I prefer our tea.

Strong hot and sweet from half pint pots.

We eat while watching the TV.

We think they are a stuffy lot.

 

But we are not from Biggleswade

and we do things a different way.

More casual not stiff and staid.

 More suited to the world today.

 

We don’t fit in, in Biggleswade,

we do not like formality

we never will I am afraid.

But we don’t care we’d rather be

 

allowed to live the way we choose.

And not by rules we must obey.

So quite politely we refuse

and send the ladies on their way.

 

The leading ladies of the town.

The great and good of Biggleswade.

I am quite sure have marked us down

Unsuitable to make the grade.

 

Sunday, 13 June 2010

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Reviews

[Tomás Ó C..]

Another enjoyable rolling rhyme!!!