Black swans and
alicorns
Watercolour
©2019 Charlene Brown
When putting together 'found' poetry for Inventing the Future, my book of clean energy haiku, I somehow missed ‘travelling wave reactor,’ a potential source of clean energy – with seven syllables! So
here it is – the most enigmatic poem yet.
An allegory
Travelling wave reactor
Alchemy balance
An allegory is a device used in literature
and art to signify a meaning that is not literal. It may be symbolic of a
concept such as:
- a black swan, which is an unpredictable or unforeseen event, typically one with extreme consequences, or
- a mythological creature, a mixture of pegasus and unicorn, referred to as an alicorn - the Latin word for the horn of a unicorn in alchemical texts.
