In Competition No. 2892 you were invited to submit an irregular quatrain in which you bring together two people from the world of the arts and then add a couplet describing the consequences.
Two competitors paired Tolkien and Graham Greene, with not dissimilar results. Here’s D.A. Prince:
If J.R.R. Tolkien
Met Graham Greene
Would a hobbit’s story
Become The Power and The Glory?
And take two from Virginia Price-Evans:
Had J.R.R.
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