Sandra Westgate
@foxtongirl.bsky.social
Substack @souvenirs23
performing arts DGF patron
writer short fiction poetry
#vss365 #blueskyrelay groups
Life is a songbird 🕊
Antipodes 💚 Married 💞
performing arts DGF patron
writer short fiction poetry
#vss365 #blueskyrelay groups
Life is a songbird 🕊
Antipodes 💚 Married 💞
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Sandra Westgate
@foxtongirl.bsky.social
· Mar 29
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
#booksky #writingcommunity #poetry
I've launched my book of traditional poetry on Barnes&Noble! If you're interested in reading more of the type of work I post here (poetry in classical, metered, and often rhyming styles), please consider ordering a copy.
Thank you for reading my work!
I've launched my book of traditional poetry on Barnes&Noble! If you're interested in reading more of the type of work I post here (poetry in classical, metered, and often rhyming styles), please consider ordering a copy.
Thank you for reading my work!
The First Scar: A Book of Verse|Paperback
The First Scar: A Book of Verse is a compilation of traditional, Romantic Era-style poetry written over some years of particular emotional tumult for the author. Each of the 30 unique works presented ...
www.barnesandnoble.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#booksky #writingcommunity #poetry
I've launched my book of traditional poetry on Barnes&Noble! If you're interested in reading more of the type of work I post here (poetry in classical, metered, and often rhyming styles), please consider ordering a copy.
Thank you for reading my work!
I've launched my book of traditional poetry on Barnes&Noble! If you're interested in reading more of the type of work I post here (poetry in classical, metered, and often rhyming styles), please consider ordering a copy.
Thank you for reading my work!
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
I'll have to post less-frequently from here on, as my job is requiring more time of me. Again, thank you all for reading my work!
Shameless plug for my book of poetry. If you enjoy the writing I post here, please visit my site in my description for multiple markets to buy my collected works!
Shameless plug for my book of poetry. If you enjoy the writing I post here, please visit my site in my description for multiple markets to buy my collected works!
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'll have to post less-frequently from here on, as my job is requiring more time of me. Again, thank you all for reading my work!
Shameless plug for my book of poetry. If you enjoy the writing I post here, please visit my site in my description for multiple markets to buy my collected works!
Shameless plug for my book of poetry. If you enjoy the writing I post here, please visit my site in my description for multiple markets to buy my collected works!
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
stripping off my skin
you try to vanquish again
while I smile & starve
my pen pretends
run sweet soul into the light
there you’ll be free
of a burden you call me
shadows I write
tried to carve a legacy
yet languish as I lose what #matters
my fight for life
#BraveWrite #vss365
#PoetryCommunity
you try to vanquish again
while I smile & starve
my pen pretends
run sweet soul into the light
there you’ll be free
of a burden you call me
shadows I write
tried to carve a legacy
yet languish as I lose what #matters
my fight for life
#BraveWrite #vss365
#PoetryCommunity
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
stripping off my skin
you try to vanquish again
while I smile & starve
my pen pretends
run sweet soul into the light
there you’ll be free
of a burden you call me
shadows I write
tried to carve a legacy
yet languish as I lose what #matters
my fight for life
#BraveWrite #vss365
#PoetryCommunity
you try to vanquish again
while I smile & starve
my pen pretends
run sweet soul into the light
there you’ll be free
of a burden you call me
shadows I write
tried to carve a legacy
yet languish as I lose what #matters
my fight for life
#BraveWrite #vss365
#PoetryCommunity
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
soon a final bow
life’s tribe is from womb to tomb
your #health is your arrow
🪶
On this #NativeAmericanHeritageDay ,
I think of my ancestors, and I am humbled and honored to be
their #MemoryKeepers…
Love,
Aspen🕊️
#BraveWrite #vss365 #RareDisease
#PoetryCommunity #haiku
👇
youtu.be/lbjZPFBD6JU?si…
life’s tribe is from womb to tomb
your #health is your arrow
🪶
On this #NativeAmericanHeritageDay ,
I think of my ancestors, and I am humbled and honored to be
their #MemoryKeepers…
Love,
Aspen🕊️
#BraveWrite #vss365 #RareDisease
#PoetryCommunity #haiku
👇
youtu.be/lbjZPFBD6JU?si…
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
soon a final bow
life’s tribe is from womb to tomb
your #health is your arrow
🪶
On this #NativeAmericanHeritageDay ,
I think of my ancestors, and I am humbled and honored to be
their #MemoryKeepers…
Love,
Aspen🕊️
#BraveWrite #vss365 #RareDisease
#PoetryCommunity #haiku
👇
youtu.be/lbjZPFBD6JU?si…
life’s tribe is from womb to tomb
your #health is your arrow
🪶
On this #NativeAmericanHeritageDay ,
I think of my ancestors, and I am humbled and honored to be
their #MemoryKeepers…
Love,
Aspen🕊️
#BraveWrite #vss365 #RareDisease
#PoetryCommunity #haiku
👇
youtu.be/lbjZPFBD6JU?si…
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
👆Please Read Above🙏
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all…”
~Emily Dickinson
🪶
Acceptance is a priceless gift;
Tragic when never received…
🥺
I love you,
Aspen🕊️
#BraveWrite #PoetryCommunity
👇
youtu.be/4NhKWZpkw1Q?si…
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all…”
~Emily Dickinson
🪶
Acceptance is a priceless gift;
Tragic when never received…
🥺
I love you,
Aspen🕊️
#BraveWrite #PoetryCommunity
👇
youtu.be/4NhKWZpkw1Q?si…
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
👆Please Read Above🙏
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all…”
~Emily Dickinson
🪶
Acceptance is a priceless gift;
Tragic when never received…
🥺
I love you,
Aspen🕊️
#BraveWrite #PoetryCommunity
👇
youtu.be/4NhKWZpkw1Q?si…
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all…”
~Emily Dickinson
🪶
Acceptance is a priceless gift;
Tragic when never received…
🥺
I love you,
Aspen🕊️
#BraveWrite #PoetryCommunity
👇
youtu.be/4NhKWZpkw1Q?si…
Can I have this played when my ashes are scattered please
#MidnightCowboy
#legendary
youtu.be/sOZYT8nX2X4?...
#MidnightCowboy
#legendary
youtu.be/sOZYT8nX2X4?...
Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Music Video - Harmonica Theme
YouTube video by Flying Dutchman
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Can I have this played when my ashes are scattered please
#MidnightCowboy
#legendary
youtu.be/sOZYT8nX2X4?...
#MidnightCowboy
#legendary
youtu.be/sOZYT8nX2X4?...
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
#vss365
#measure
#measurable
#hsiku
Measure of my love
I stayed for all our seasons
All the right reasons ♡
#measure
#measurable
#hsiku
Measure of my love
I stayed for all our seasons
All the right reasons ♡
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#vss365
#measure
#measurable
#hsiku
Measure of my love
I stayed for all our seasons
All the right reasons ♡
#measure
#measurable
#hsiku
Measure of my love
I stayed for all our seasons
All the right reasons ♡
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
My dear mother loved musicals, opera & theater.
In her retirement years she tread the boards of musical theater, singing the classics she loved as a child.
This is one of them ♡
youtu.be/adUPdnzCAk8?...
In her retirement years she tread the boards of musical theater, singing the classics she loved as a child.
This is one of them ♡
youtu.be/adUPdnzCAk8?...
Julie Covington - Don't Cry For Me Argentina
YouTube video by MrHaggis64
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
My dear mother loved musicals, opera & theater.
In her retirement years she tread the boards of musical theater, singing the classics she loved as a child.
This is one of them ♡
youtu.be/adUPdnzCAk8?...
In her retirement years she tread the boards of musical theater, singing the classics she loved as a child.
This is one of them ♡
youtu.be/adUPdnzCAk8?...
#vss365
#goals
Ghost Fox of white winter
Can you let blizzards retard your goals
Fur coat won't hide an empty belly
Deep snow confuses direction decision
You know what you must do
Forge a path where forest joins street
Find a home where ambient porch light signals warmth
Yelp-cry for human hearts ♡
#goals
Ghost Fox of white winter
Can you let blizzards retard your goals
Fur coat won't hide an empty belly
Deep snow confuses direction decision
You know what you must do
Forge a path where forest joins street
Find a home where ambient porch light signals warmth
Yelp-cry for human hearts ♡
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
The Trump Administration is legally required to pay every federal worker at the end of any shutdown without exception. The law is not ambiguous, it clearly bars this wanton cruelty and if Trump pursues it he will lose.
Breaking news: The Trump administration is sending messages to federal staff suggesting only those who are working during the government shutdown will be paid when it ends, despite a 2019 law that guarantees pay to furloughed employees, too.
Administration hints furloughed workers may not be paid after shutdown
Agencies are sending messages indicating that workers who are on the job will be paid when the government reopens — with no mention of those on furlough, despite a 2019 law protecting their wages.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Trump Administration is legally required to pay every federal worker at the end of any shutdown without exception. The law is not ambiguous, it clearly bars this wanton cruelty and if Trump pursues it he will lose.
This, per a FB friend...
Emperor Trump?
Emperor Trump?
October 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This, per a FB friend...
Emperor Trump?
Emperor Trump?
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
Three eventualities were planned for, but never spoken of: the rising of the river that floods the moon of mourning; crocus calls through the hill mists in counterpoint; an echo of hollow peasant laughter in hungry silos. Soon the city would forget, but never the soil.
#vss365 - eventuality
#vss365 - eventuality
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Three eventualities were planned for, but never spoken of: the rising of the river that floods the moon of mourning; crocus calls through the hill mists in counterpoint; an echo of hollow peasant laughter in hungry silos. Soon the city would forget, but never the soil.
#vss365 - eventuality
#vss365 - eventuality
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Sandra Westgate
Tree Frog
Come hither, blip
Little green pocket
Bouncing on pips
Hopping caprice, clinging to stem
Your compactness, a gem.
Popped plums for eyes. Licked lollipop red
With clammy verve, gnats fill your purse
Then curl beneath, your favorite leaf
Sticky comma fast asleep
#vss365 #revise
Come hither, blip
Little green pocket
Bouncing on pips
Hopping caprice, clinging to stem
Your compactness, a gem.
Popped plums for eyes. Licked lollipop red
With clammy verve, gnats fill your purse
Then curl beneath, your favorite leaf
Sticky comma fast asleep
#vss365 #revise
September 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM