As we move into another month and another spring, I was pondering what might make a good topic for a March writing challenge. As it so happens, dialyn posted her March Quotes thread at just about the same time. Immediately, a famous line sprang to mind. "Beware the Ides of March."

So, without further ado, I'd like to present this month's challenge theme.

March Challenge Theme - Prophecy

This challenge is open to both poetry and prose. Be creative, and don't be afraid to think outside the box!

David L.
Writer's Forum Moderator

HI there all.

Long time no see!

Please find my submission to this challenge here

Hugs and should be here a little more often soon (financial year end is a bore!)

  Well, I'm new to submitting for these writer's challenges so I'm not entirely sure where to submit them...I did it here and i posted it in my gallery just to be on the safe side though...

Deep in the night air I pause to consider,

the fact that I may have reason to pause.

In my world prophecies are reviled,

to have made one is to break our laws.

I sit in the night and wonder what to do,

the wondering threatens me to tears.

What should I do? What can I do?

How shall I overcome my mortal fears?

For the law's answer to any who speak,

is a cold, unfeeling execution of death.

And yet I must for the greater good of all,

I must speak, I must, with my last breath.

Let death be my companion, I will speak;

Let my life end, if speaking be the ending of it.

They can come and commit their violence,

I will no longer sit here idle playing the hobbit.

I will accomplish what must be, damn the cost.

I will be silent no longer, nor chained.

They cannot control nor can they stop me.

I will speak, let the floor be blood-stained.

I do not possess the prophecy, no one can,

For the prophecy was given freely to share.

I do not possess my own life, no one can,

For life is given us freely, for any who dare.