Rules of engagement:[ul][li]Original work only please[]Try to emulate the style of the original in some way (in case someone doesn’t know it)[]Include a link to the original if possibleUse the spoiler box[/ul]Here’s my first attempt.[/li]
Follower by Seamus Heaney
When young, I recall quite enjoying
my dad’s skill at ploughing the cloying
earth of the ground.
I followed him round.
But now he’s just old and annoying.
Correction:[ul]Include a link to the original if possible (in case someone doesn’t know it)[/ul]
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MacBeth – a Limerick
[First Witch]
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, in lightning or rain?
[Second Witch]
It gets rather boring
To meet where it’s pouring.
[Third Witch]
I vote for the south coast of Spain.
jr8, that’s perfect! 
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Xanadu had me really impressed.
Kubla’s dome was completely the best:
It had gardens and hills,
And some babe with the chills,
And… oh shit. I forgot all the rest.
More Shakespeare:
Hamlet
To be or, perchance, not to be;
It’s hard to decide it, you see:
To snuff it and end it,
To stay here and mend it,
Or bump off my whole family.
Romeo and Juliet
Although Juliet’s ‘death’ was a myth,
She and Romeo perished forthwith.
One might well have hoped
That, instead, they’d eloped
Under “Mr. and Mrs. John Smith”.
Why are we using spoiler tags again?
Well my thinking was this: if you saw a parody without first knowing the thing being parodied, it might lessen the impact of the parody. Hence the request for the link and the spoiler tag.
Perhaps I’m being a bit picky.
Bilbo, you see, found a ring
And it seemed and innocuous thing
But 'twas Isildur’s bane
And the cause of much pain
And songs for Led Zepp’lin to sing
Get Eve’s ass in here! I want her to do one.
::chanting like a drunken Philadelphia Eagles fan::
EVE! EVE! EVE! EVE! EVE!..
To Kill a Mockingbird, with apologies to Harper Lee and anyone who appreciates proper scansion:
When Atticus described his dissent
With killing, I didn’t get his intent.
But when dressed as a ham,
I got attacked by a man,
Then Boo killed him, and I understood what he’d meant.
The Grapes of Wrath (final chapter - SERIOUS spoiler)
There once was a young female Okie
Stuck in a barn wet and soakie
Who said a man needs to eat
So come suck on my teat
And it will all turn out okey-dokey
I’m so sorry.
Jurassic Park
There was a rich man named John Hammond
Who had scientists at his commammond.
One day on a lark
He built a dinosaur park,
Chaos Theory and OSHA be damnoned.
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand.
There once was a man named Galt,
Who said it was communists’ fault,
While the lefties were preying,
He went on strike, saying:
“It’s the engine of the world that I’ll halt.”
The Bible (not for the easily offended):
Eve and Adam were cast out of Eden,
For Moses, the Red Sea’s recedin’,
The Flood was a killer,
Lot’s wife is a pillar,
And we’re all saved by Jesus’ bleedin’.
I don’t know how to do spoilers (someone will inform me how, I’m sure), so I’ll just get right to my Aeneid limerick:
I sing of arms and the man
Who had a magnificent plan:
“Since the Greeks burned my home,
I’ll ship out and found Rome.
With my Pop and my whole Trojan clan.”
Just type {spoiler} bla bla bla {/spoiler}, but replace { } with .
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
There once was a thief named Laroche,
Whose manner was vulgar and gauche,
But on the topic of flowers
He’d go on for hours
With a passion that was beyond reproach.
1984:
A fellow named Winston did some drinking,
The kind that leads nat’rally to thinking,
He was a follower of Goldstein,
And with Julia did dine,
But in the end Room 101 got him finking.
I’m not so great at this game.
There once was a clown oh-so scary
Who haunted the sewers of Derry
But with Turtles & Chud
Kids nipped “It” in the bud
But was the pre-teen orgy necessary?
Literature?
Well…it’s a book…
Not many words can do justice
for the gentleman out there who lost us
his hat is absurd
he speaks nary a word
Yet we search for dear Waldo amongst us
How about this?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck Finn was a young orphaned lad
Who found civilized life pretty bad
But then Jim the slave
He decided to save
And oh! what adventures they had!