Your March longette prompt: Protest!

The very name of this month screams at us to stand up and be counted, to MARCH, to Protest, to Rally. Our right to protest is important…and it is constantly in danger of being stripped away.

Just yesterday my friends from Pride in Protest were denied the right to march in Sydney’s Gay & Lesbian+ Mardi Gras Parade because they aren’t afraid to tell the truth, and that simply doesn’t gel well with the Mardi Gras board’s increasing need/greed for government and corporate sponsorship.

On 22 March I’ll be helping with the national day of action for forests’ March in March in Eora-Sydney. Old growth forests are still being cut down in my country at an alarming rate, even where there is no financial benefit in doing so. Taxpayers actually end up paying for the rape and pillage of our beautiful land. IT MUST STOP.

This month, use your longette to tell us about how You protest, or intend to, about something important to you. Unfortunately there is no shortage of things that need changing in this incredibly messed up world.

I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with, and to publishing the results on Wordflower. Please Submit your work here!

Haven’t yet met the longette? Click here to check out the rules of this new poetic form, and some examples.

Guest poet Dennis Ryle pre-empted the March prompt when so-called Australia descended into undisguised fascism last month, so if you need an example, his protest longette can be found here:
https://wordflowerpoetry.com/2026/02/25/when-the-public-square-shrinks-beneath-the-weight-of-fear-and-fragile-power-yet-rises-again-phoenix-like-finding-its-voice-reversing-the-onus-on-the-lawmakers/