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 11566 couplets later we're to...
woolly mammoths are extinct -
fossils of past age
fossils of past age
i fear the day choka goes
the way of mammoth.
the way of mammoth.
may such a day be distant!
i'll keep visiting.
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i'll keep visiting.
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>>>
