The choka starts with:
Oh great Internet
Home to world's information
I have learned so much
Home to world's information
I have learned so much
...now 10853 couplets later we're to...
I forgot the phone wasn't
cordless. I broke it
cordless. I broke it
last night. Ditto, the pink vase
it smashed on the floor.
it smashed on the floor.
Tragic mess. Too late for wind
water or feng shui.
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water or feng shui.
Choka is a Japanese form of poetry, related to, but pre-dating haiku. It starts with three non-rhyming lines of 5-7-5 syllables, then repeats with 7-5, 7-5, 7-5. That's where you come in ... more>>>
It's easy. Just have a look-see at the choka and add two non-rhyming lines of 7 and 5 syllables. Whatever you write (within reason) gets tacked onto the poem ... more>>>
