We began as a group that liked books,
After 2 weddings, 4 babes & 7 years we're still hooked.
With unbridled zest,
Great tomes we digest,
And though we still bring books when we gather,
Our enthusiasm is as much for the food and the chatter. - Joette

There once was a group who liked reading
The volumes they picked were all leading
But 7 years is a long time
In which to opine
Now mostly their meeting means eating. - Fred

While this resource cannot be destroyed,
Neither is it that fairly deployed.
In the desert you'll go
Weeks in search of de l'eau
Yet in Deep Cove you're never devoid. - Michael

An engineer in from Nantucket
Was drilling for oil when he struck it.
"I'd sure like a drink
Of cold water, I think;
If we can't pipe it in then we'll truck it." - Michael

There once was a man from Deep Cove
Who was wet from his head to his toes.
But if he had any hair
There would be no need to despair,
For that and a hat would take care of his woes. - Larrie

She was, one would say, solitary,
Not really the type that would marry.
One day in the green
Eddie Bondo was seen.
Passion first, but then oh! so contrary. - Jean

Appalachians they had them a ranger,
Deanna by name, met a stranger.
While at first he was mocked
Once he came, rifle cocked,
He became her short-term heat exchanger. - Jean

A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

An author named Dickens was stirred
To give readers all of the dirt
On Paris and London;
But what of his fundin'?
Well thank God he was paid by the word! - Leith

In the days of the French Revolution
The nobility faced execution.
Dickens' "far better thing"
Was to swap yang for ying
In a Carton/Darnay substitution. - Michael

There once was a geneticist named Barbara
Who studied the corn not les arbres.
She found jumping genes
For her easily seen,
But some thought she'd lost all her marbles. - Rob

You might march through a cold winter (Russian),
Give your heart without further discussion.
Whether out or in fashion
You will find that your passion
Can have quite a broad repercussion. - Michael

Napolean's cook from Nantucket
Had to melt down the ice from his bucket.
"When the boss wants a stew
You should do what I do:
Toss the chicken in whole, never pluck it." - Michael