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 11626 couplets later we're to...
Can't believe -- 200 weeks?
I've been gone that long?
I've been gone that long?
Glad the site has such good friends,
New and old alike.
New and old alike.
Keep it up, you crazy bunch!
Choka on, it's great!
see it all (or even add your own)>>>
Choka on, it's great!
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>>>
