Beautiful piece Vikki, the guitar, piano and poem combine beautifully 👌😊

Wow Vikki this is so amazing ! All of it !🙏 ❤️

Really stunning and emotional Vikki, love the passion in the verse and that crying guitar Matt, exceptional . Johnny

I've listened to 2 of your songs in a row (both versions of Denouement) and I am blown away by your talent and grace. Gorgeous work Vikki. Piano. Arrangement. Poetry. You're a class act! So glad to have met you here.

'Denouement' was originally written on the piano to accompany a poem of the same name. I later had the pleasure of working with songwriter and guitarist Matt Guntrip who added his stunning guitar to the track. I feel that the guitar has truly elevated the piece by accentuating the nuances of the story in a powerful way. 

I hope you enjoy this "music-spoken word" landscape which aims to bring home the sentiments of love and life endured across the passage of time. 

'Denouement' piano and poem - written and performed by VWC Poetry & Music

Guitar and production - Matt Guntrip

Do check out more of Matt's beautiful music: Matt Guntrip 7-9 on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/jrV6M

Cover art by Vikki

11th July, 2022

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Lyrics (by VWC Poetry & Music): 


Denouement

I want to be there, in your broken reflection
the one that haunts you after the end
maybe we were right then but now we're wrong

like stirring pale clouds into steeped tea
just an illusion of something far away
married into an unextraordinary routine

but it is vital, this milk of memory
makes life mildly bearable
when I stare in the mirror, I see you madly in love, still

you see me, a Plath poem pressed to my heaving chest
a girl you once knew, now trapped in her own mind:
a library of stories belonging to others,
vellichor draped over an aloneness that defies poetic justice
the window left open to a perpetual sunset

a sleeper train interrupts the horizon
it carries the cargo of absence
across a long and winding road
to some fool's paradise with no name

along those boundless fields, we walked
there, time is a quicksilver bullet, then gone
light dissipating everywhere but here
I accept that now, silent all these years

how love changes even in the aftermath
its death, sudden and swift, so the stories go

I'm going home now
maybe the mourning will end after the dirge
but my black heart will always believe in its ghost

...and I confess, what remains, is quietly startling.
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#piano #poetry #guitar




Denouement (with Matt Guntrip, guitar)

Musician, poet, author. I create poetic cameos of life through the heart of a piano and the occasional song or poem. 

I also compose music to accompany my spoken word pieces and have collaborated with various artists in this genre.

All compositions, improvizations and cover art are original works unless otherwise stated. I hope you enjoy the journey. 🎹

All rights reserved.

My latest poetry collection 'Where Sands Run Finest' is available here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1738273407?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520&s=09

My debut poetry collection 'The Art Of Glass Houses' is available here:
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Glass-Houses-Vikki-C/dp/B0BMT39BPG#aw

Thank you for your support 💙

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