Mirthmancer

Bard  ·  Philocalist  ·  Truth-seeker
Spinning riddles of peace and levity. Conjuring currents of chaos and clarity. Distilling the essence of all that moves me.
Kevin Cullinan — Mirthmancer

Mirthmancer

Welcome to a space suspended between the playful and the profound, where a well-placed word may unravel something you didn't know was tangled within you.

Bard

My work spans poetry, lyrics, spoken word, and song.

Whether I'm narrating a story, bringing a character to life, reading poetry, or singing, I bring warmth, curiosity, and intention with every breath.

Philocalist

Our world is a place of immeasurable beauty.
It's everywhere.
I try to find it, especially where it's most scarce.

Truth-seeker

Nobody has all the answers, but there is a non-zero chance that every single soul you encounter has at least one of them. Listen to their story. Gain a new perspective. Learn their secrets.

My hope is this: by entering my world and immersing yourself in my experiences, you're able to make better sense of your own existence. At the very least, perhaps I'll make you giggle.

Words

These poems exist in print and live in my lungs.
Read them, then hear them.

Original Poem · Spoken Word
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This feeling, it's fickle - it comes & it goes. Consuming our conscience & curling our toes. The code is concealed - we covet its capture. We keep it too close for fear of a fracture. A trickle of triumph, a trapping of truths. It twists our desire & blossoms our blooms. It's awesome - impossible - the warmth we can feel. Just pause before breaking the hearts that you steal. So easy to fall - we tumble, we trip. We stumble and crash when our feet start to slip. It rips through your rhythm, erasing your agency. Embracing the taste of their radiance aimlessly. Your tongue becomes tied as you look into their eyes, and you're shook by their depth when they lower their guise. The soul, it will sing, when safety, you bring. Creating a place where your traps never spring. Expectation is wasted when placed on another. Accept or reject, but give grace to your lover. You are the only one you can control. Being yourselves is what coupled your souls. It's not about owning, postponing, possessing... It's sharing, it's daring to care, and caressing. The tenderness tries you, it bends, it breaks, and it binds you. Cherish the ride whenever love finds you.
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For years I tried to fit myself into another's box. Stifled tears & rife with fear that I was not enough. Clocking in, another win to keep my spirit stocked. Finding purpose in my service, I strove to be a rock. Once my stone was thrown, I hadn't grown the way I thought. Scribbled lines and wasted time and lessons I forgot. I looked inside in hopes I'd find the answers that I sought. And when I failed, I blazed the trail to reap a finer plot. Soon I'd find it wasn't inside, but in the eyes of friends of mine. Old companions there to show the light I once possessed. Comrades, new, to share their truths and push me towards my best. Infused with grounding, love surrounding, my dreams could manifest. Then suddenly time was no longer wasted. I lived and I loved and I lost my taste. Erased my regret, and wisdom replaced it. Found greatness to love in myself, and embraced it. Spend all your time on skills you can hone, but life lacks meaning if you live it alone. Boldly show the ways you've grown And seek the people that feel like home. Now rise - protest - if life doesn't fit. Invest yourself in all that you give. Alone, we only hold one ticket to ride this world and try to live. So find your tribe and harmonize. Forgive your former enterprise. For only through each other's eyes may we get a glimpse of another life.
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If a witch turned you into a mushroom, how would you be consumed? Harvested from the ground, would she eat you whole? Raw and profound with an uncooked soul? Perhaps dry you out and grind you to dust? Pour you into a capsule or bake you into crust? Boiled til bouncy or steeped in a tea? It's astounding all the fungal forms you could be. And then, let's consider what you might do! What sort of reaction would your powder produce? Will you make music louder or make her world rounder? What kinds of feelings does your essence induce? Does she feel confused? What spices did she use? The pungence and flavor derived from your abundance is something to savor - we strive for indulgence. Might your unfiltered culture cause splinters in her sculpture? Your unscripted structure may bewilder and touch her. Pilfer her mind for the secrets inside. Dissolving the wall that her damage designed. Exposing it all for her psyche to solve - she captured catharsis when you form was devolved. Don't fear the digestion as your pieces progress. You've dished out your service - why protest your purpose? You'll return to your form once you pass through her storm. Reformed with the earth to unite with your swarm. The process completed, your heart restarts beating. She honored her promise, and made you a treat.
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There's a taste in the air that I can't seem to place The scent of it stings. It's tingling my face. The ocean is raging from people packed tightly, shoulder to shoulder. Now, give me the night. If Benson believes in me, I'll achieve an evening of action, pleasure and distraction. Acting out scenes that play in my dreams. I mix them with facts and spark a reaction. Blasting the senses with inputs and blends - amalgamations that help us ascend. Am I missing the mixture's essential components? Maybe I measured too much for the moment? Woah. The size of that serving has started a swirling. Commencing a whirlwind of swerving and twirling. My world is turning, upending, and whirling. Curtains encroach on my sterling hypnosis. Clash with the blackness; a struggle ensues. Glimpsing my doom as my soul is consumed. That veil - I know it conceals something sacred. I can't seem to make my way through while this wasted. My axes are aching. This pain is an awakening. Waiting for the cyclone to settle, it's better to just let it be and breath in deeply while seeking a reef I think I can reach. Stand on the sandbar in awe of the sea, stretched to encompass the concept of me. Feed upon oxygen, then stretch my feet. Flee from the box I'm in - set myself free. Fragments of failure float in my mind For the cave I crawled out of was my own design. I played through each phase and escaped the cascade, but the hole I climbed up from was one that I made. Accepting my actions, adjusting my attitudes, detecting distractions, and trusting in gratitude. Truly there are far more taxing escapades than exploring eternity & returning unscathed. Introspective affection back under control I've emerged from the experience with a skip in my stroll. Observing exposes I'm somehow more whole. A sterling hypnosis to remold the soul.

Sounds

Magicians may never reveal their secrets, but that's exactly what I'm doing here.
If my voice makes you feel something, then my spells are working.

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Tear me from reality and place me on the page. Modulate mentality, embrace it and engage. Integrate all the great data that my brain ate. Share what I've ingested, we can all relate. A year of enrichment, escape, and endeavor. A tear for the tormented, tainted, and tethered. Don't fear detainment, detachment, or death. Appear for your peers. Peer into their depths. It's not about highlighting all of your failures, flaring your faults, or owning your ailments. They only pass through you, and you can decide who You are by choosing what brings you fulfillment. By forging a path that lets you forget it. The lives you'd have lived if life let you reset it. You thicken your plot, and pile on layers. And layers and layers and layers.... Appeasement and pleasing have long lost their hold. The habits I've harbored and hated unfold. They saved me, they served me, but long past their due. Discarded and tarnished to make room for new. But first you must heal or old wounds will fester. They'll test you and threaten with gestures to best you. Invest in yourself and success is your treasure. Master momentum for mirth beyond measure. It's not about highlighting all of your failures, flaring your faults, or owning your ailments. They only pass through you, and you can decide who You are by choosing what brings you fulfillment. Start forging a path that lets you forget it: The lives you'd have lived if life let you reset it. Then thicken your plot, and pile on layers. And layers and layers and layers....
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Enter my atmosphere just for a fraction. I'll pull you in closely to share satisfaction. Attracted to your actions, your aura, your essence. Adoring each session in your precious presence. By cosmic currents, our orbits have crossed. I'm changed from the impact our collisions have caused. If I'm lost in space, I don't wish to be found. I'll count the rotations til you come back around. My muse, a lover, and above all, a friend. Let us uncover mysteries we cannot comprehend. I'll soar through your sky as you soar through mine. We're just frozen space dust - comets entwined. While carving our paths, we blaze through our trails. Particulates gather as we pick up new tails. We leave behind relics the cosmos will covet. Stories in the stars suspend til they plummet. Bodies entangled by forces unseen. Celestial intersection, our courses careen. Gravity twists us around both our centers. Your love is a drug and I'm on a bender. My muse, a lover, and above all, a friend. Let us uncover mysteries we cannot comprehend. I'll soar through your sky as you soar through mine. We're just frozen space dust - comets entwined. The moment I asked you to enter my fable. You infused me with power you sent from your cable. A wireless connection; the network is stable. No strings, no stress, no need for a label. No pretense, just presence. Your soul is so free. It brings me such joy when you share it with me. I don't wish to own you, possess, or postpone you. You're the queen of your kingdom, and I'll never dethrone you. The fantastic realms that we enter together. We'll generate pleasure with every endeavor. Our story so far has been one filled with bliss. We've written ourselves a beautiful plot twist. My muse, a lover, and above all, a friend. Let us uncover mysteries we cannot comprehend. I'll soar through your sky as you soar through mine. We're just frozen space dust - comets entwined.
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Approaching destination, customs is a breeze. Docked into my station, finally at ease. Quick, unload the cargo, organize supplies Build a brief abode beneath the starry skies. Anticipate, hesitate - either way: Syncopate Settle in a nation filled with Vibrations. Dance through the nettles, prickly sensations. Addicted to stickin' to bits and fixations. Bumblin' with beats beneath the big dipper. Every other neighbor a friendly day tripper. Levelin' with revelers and ravin' with the knaves. Meddlin' with settlers and wobblin' to waves. Undertake, overthrow. Undermine the overtones. Overflow with understanding, Feel the rhythm in your bones. Inner peace outer poise Sing it louder, use your voice. In the thick of out of wack Send your signal through the noise. The forlorn horns…. gasping, growling. The buttery bronze… honking & howling. The braying, the blaring, they lock you in a trance, Frozen by a frisson of orchestral Expanse. He created a stage: an open-faced rave cage. Lock yourself in and the party begins. With brass from the past, the best begins blasting. Sippin' upon space dust, I start casting. Dishin' out cantrips. Flippin' the axis. A separated headtrip split into fractions. Reshape the wavelengths, rippled Reflections. Cosmic campout cracklin' with Connections. Undertake, overthrow. Undermine the overtones. Overflow with understanding, Feel the rhythm in your bones. Inner peace, outer poise. Sing it loud, use your voice. In the thick of out of wack Send your signal through the noise. Undermine the overtones. Feel the rhythm in your bones. Inner peace, outer poise Send your signal through the noise.
Original Music · Song
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You pulled me from the trenches. You helped rebuild my stage. You lifted me with love Showed me there's still someone to save. Cus I believed I'd lost it - The blaze once in my eyes. Torn about & tossed it out To silence my own cries. You tore me from the talons Of a beast I chose to ride. Ripped my reins from the creature's clutches, and placed them by my side. They say that life is tethered in mystery. My soul is tethered to you. I'll be your alibi through this web of lies. And together we can find the truth. In the evidence of our history I think I've found a clue The puzzle's prize, we might not find, But I'll search for the pieces with you! And then you called me from the trenches, So I could raise you to the stage. I lifted you with love Showed you there's still something to save. Cuz you believed you'd lose it Love's bell began to toll. All you needed was one to confide in - to peer into your soul. I pulled you from that prison A cell your mind had made to be I delved unto the demon's depths and drew the jailer's key. They say that life is tethered in mystery. My soul is tethered to you. I'll be your alibi through this web of lies. And together we can find the truth. In the evidence of our history I think I've found a clue The puzzle's prize, we might not find, But I'll search for the pieces with you! Discarded cargo - leave it in the dust. A rolling stone tends to gather what it must. Serves you fine to sever ties, separate from your old lives. Tethered in trajectory to help the world find levity! They say that life is tethered in mystery. My soul is tethered to you. I'll be your alibi through this web of lies. And together we can find the truth. In the evidence of our history I think I've found a clue The puzzle's prize, we might not find, But I'll search for the pieces.... I'll search for the pieces with you!

Videos

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If my voice resonates with you, let's see how our frequencies harmonize.
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Music
I sing. I rap. I make noise. Original songs, collaborations, vocal features. I'm very comfortable on stage and in the booth.
Original Poetry
Commissions for art, events, gifts, birthdays, campaigns — anything where you need help crafting your message.
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Voice Acting
Characters, narration, commercials — I immerse myself into every project I'm involved in.
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Audio Books
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More Poems

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Battered by promises broken and fractured Captured completeness awoke to disaster. Beaten by weeks of wrath that seek to perturb your peace and awaken your weakness. Wronged and spurned, the anger emerges. Slighted and scorned, the bitterness surges. It's trivial living in rivers of rage. Your tended resentment creating a cage. Little by little, your shell becomes brittle. Your casing is cracked, exposing the core. More and more your mind's in the middle. Of letting it fizzle or leaning in more. Gleaning the reason interprets their treason. Make it make sense from their side, and believe them. Pardon their partisan approach to devotion. Harboring hatred inhibits your motion. Imagine the freedom of knowing no need to think of the moment you started to bleed. Their blade was betrayal, your flesh the future. Left you to scar as you scratch at your sutures. Abusive, the beast, we allow to intrude And truthfully all that it's hurting is you. So settle this debt, release it and live. Don't try to forget - choose peace and forgive
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Melting into a motionless ocean. Losing the soul to doses so potent. Both of our borders dissolve and disorder. Blended components distorting the moment. Uncover the quotient to solve for the soul. Boundaries broken and halves become whole. This affect induced has us holding on loose, like grains on a shore as we roll through the door. The waves repeating, the tide in sequence Edges bleeding, we slip through the seams. Losing your grip to pull free the secret. Reaching in deeply, delving in dreams. Paired and composed of powerful pieces. Sharing the breath that passes between us. Tension decreasing facilitates a thrill. Pressure released. In stillness we spill.
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A heart filled with fear is too insufficient to succeed in stopping both you and our mission. Insist upon living an unbiased existence, and be ripped from the world amid peaceful resistance. Our forces refuse to lose their momentum Despite the abuse and the ways we're tormented. Spiteful, hateful, inhuman intentions.... Inventing excuses to consume our attention. "Look here, at the truth, ignore what you see." Our roots, they wish to rip from our tree, but our legs will not buckle, our eyes will not close. Our fingers can fight with poems and prose. Upon weighted shoulders, we carry those souls. The fallen will bolster us to resist their control. This sickening status the system promotes is midden and madness they force down our throats. Regurgitation is sweeping the nation. The taste of their treason defying all reason. It serves their agenda to send us to detention or simply to end us while earning their pension. Collecting arrests with detestable methods We depend on our efforts to make sense of the death. Sisters & brothers, let us rise with each other. Together, we'll untwist from this treatment we suffer.
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I flow through a field of so many choices, seeking a plumage that has its own voice. Bloomed and beautiful, with bristles that sting. If I pick the right blossom, I'll hear her heart sing. Peel back the petals protecting your organs. I seek your origin. I won't calm your storm. I welcome it's rumble and worship your form. While your waters rush over me, I thirst for your thunder. I'll be sated once you're shaking, and your tide pulls me under. Your tempest is trembling. Your ember is ephemeral. Your elements awaken when exposed to my chemicals. Your electricity... the way it entices me. I can't control your current; I crave the way it fights me. The force of your spirit... the way that it strikes me. I feared you might never hit the same place twice. But again, with luck, it appears I've been struck. Your bolts take hold, and your spout starts to suck. I'll trigger your intensity when you toss me in your tempest. Woo me with your whirlwind, and I'll accept my sentence. Squeezed between your borders, exploring your aisles. Routing through your corridors, I'm lost for quite a while. Maneuvering with mastery to make your storm stronger. I think I'll stay down here for quite a bit longer.
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Memory, memory, where have you gone? I cannot remember the words to this song. The lyrics escape me, the rhythm feels wrong. Disturbing the verses by humming along. Abandoned by archives arranged in my brain. Those books were checked out and flushed down some drain. The rhetoric ranges from rapture to rage. The narrative is shaky, I mixed up the pages. I swear it just sat on the tip of my tongue. Now I've lost the path of the story I strung. The sequence is scrambled, and though I risk rambling, I'll push for performance - a dangerous gamble. Forcing my cortex to store in its treasury, then coerced into confidence by cerebellar treachery. A hoard of temporal storage aborted its directory, when my hippocampus' heresy misplaced a precious memory. I know it was something insightful.... it truly felt right while it lived in my mind but given a limited tidbit of time, it slipped outside with no lips to guide it. I survey my surroundings for something profound I dropped upon the ground. With no hint of its existence, I come to my senses, admit that it's lost and will not be found. What was I talking about? Who cares, anyway? I was lost in the rhythm our frequencies made. The tangent I rode took me far from that matter. I was poised to propose a point, and then my focus scattered. I couldn't quite communicate that last thought I had. Try not to feel bad. It happens, it's natural. The trappings occasionally release what they've captured from so long ago when it serves you no more. It's mischievous, our on-board storage, sworn to contain each tale it's told. Trying to hold it straight is vain... too many fragments we fail to control. Nostalgia is sweet - the taste, and the feeling. It often repeats, but it's real, and it's healing. So, we tend to reminisce, relive, and revel, in all the moments we miss. Memory is malleable, far from infallible, recalling it clearly with discreet variations. Fear not the details and carry through failure with improvisation. They just want to feel what you felt, so believe it yourself, and really sell it. Make their minds melt, and if nothing else, they'll remember that you were the one to tell it.
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Woman, I'm guilty, wicked and filthy Sick with the curve of your hips on my mind. Grinding around, I find that I'm bound Arousal unwinding as lips intertwine. Wondering how I'll ever sleep tonight. All I wanna do is relieve the tightness. Slightly loosened, ripened fruits. Slap on the caboose, and it's drippin' juices. Drink the nectar, consume the brew. Call me The Collector of things to do. The last was you, and I'm far from through So put us in a sector where we can screw. Doing it, doing it, doing it well. Severely misbehaving, I'll see you in hell. But a few times first, baby, here on earth. Quite clearly I'm craving, so gimme the dirt. Shake and rock ya from the sacral chakra Take you to the candy shop and then pop ya. Spot the scene, and simmer the action. Chemistry is cooking, let's spark a reaction. Doing it, doing, it doing it, til you turn blue and you're left with a little bit of burn. I can turn on a dime, and I earn what's mine. Now come... hit me with it one more time
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The dawn of a day where we all come to play. A place where there's no need to race or make haste. Leaving no trace despite all the waste we produce in our chase to sample each taste. On arrival, constructing a base to survive in. Providing a fort for your family to thrive in. Consort and connive set the pump to overdrive Jump up and down on the ramp, take a dive. Falling further upward, climbing higher, gaining lift. Sailing through clouds, moving skyward towards a rift. Find your inner peace and recognize your gift. Artistic catharsis and your psyche shifts. Sifting throught gifts and trinkets acquired From strangers & neighbors that share our desires Riding wild winds with sidekicks and friends. We travel the distance and dance til the end. Finding your friends in the crowd unexpectedly Time to get down, we descend, so impressed by aesthestics & sounds, an authentic production. We manage to catch every act, no obstructions. At the end of your rope you must hold on to hope. All these beings & folks & their feelings evoking me. Finding more sources to flow out more dopamine. Bolster your forces, approach and stay close to me. Love who you are and hold onto freedom. Keep on reminding your comrades you need them. Know its okay if you briefly choke on the dust and the smoke or while jeering at jokes. Laugh at ourselves to keep the soul toasty. Poke or roast me cuz that's how it's supposed to be. Trust and devotion invoked by your homies We keep our hearts open at Okeechobee.
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Kevin Cullinan
Mirthmancer — Bard · Philocalist · Truth-seeker
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