An opening in the
world of
imagination.
Crack in the Teacup,
now a leaky
container,
no longer safe from
scalding hot
liquids.
Meaning of Crack
comes
from the sound it
makes,
with negative
connotations.
Cracks evoke
dryness,
like the barren
earth,
dry lips or a
neglected house.
Psychologically, a
crack
in the facade
suggests
a false persona.
Splitting
experiences
of mental illnesses,
often felt as if
one’s whole
world is cracking
and breaking apart.
One’s voice cracks
in a
moment of
insecurity,
while we may be
restored
by “cracking up”
as we
burst out laughing.
“Having the Craic”
is a much sought after
unique Irish past
time of frivolity and fun making.
Through a crack in
time
leading to other
realities,
to the “land of
the dead”,
beyond earthly
boundaries.
Leonard Cohen
describing
“There is a crack
in everything/
that is how the
light get in”.
Next day arriving
at the crack of dawn
with all its
potentials -
a gateway between
night and day
where the mythic
heroes descend
through the horizon
into the underworld
or where prayers
travel up to heaven.
The word “crack”
used for decoding
secret messages, an
ancient alphabet
or a secret
language,
as if the
alchemists` spirit.
Hermes/Mercury
travelling freely
between the worlds
guides us through
the narrow
passageways that easily
get unnoticed, like
Freud’s famous
slip of the tongue,
in order to retrieve
some surprising
insight.
Something falling
between the cracks
is forgotten or
lost.
Our fear of falling
into the
chaotic abyss, gives
rise to our
superstition of
avoiding
cracks in the
pavement.
Like Auden`s teacup,
the crack in the
door,
neither inside nor
outside,
may open up to the
subliminal place
where poetry is born
Between what I
see and what I say,
between what I
say and what I keep silent,
between what I keep silent and what I dream,
between what I dream and what I forget:
poetry.
Octavio Paz.
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