In Competition No. 3095 you were invited to submit an elegy by a poet on another poet.
The prompt for this challenge was ‘Adonais’, Shelley’s celebrated 55-stanza tribute to Keats. Frank McDonald imagined Keats responding in kind:
My heart aches for you, brother Percy Bysshe,
Who wept for me although my name was writ
In water.
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