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A Poem by a Stranger
Doorway Don’t remember me as you last saw me. I was feeling down, rough; useful life past and the present cold, hard, edgy. You see you gave me food, clean […]
Poetry
Adieu, adieu, adieu.
To you, and you and you. When I started writing this, my last official Doorway Writing Group blog, I was in the throes of moving and was surrounded by removal […]
Doorway Annual Review 2015-2016
The front page of this year’s Annual Review shows a word cloud created by members of the public who follow the Doorway Facebook page. They were asked to describe our […]
The Dogs Need to be Looked After As Well As the Owners
It has become apparent over the years that, during Doorway drop-in sessions, our dogs need to be looked after as well as our guests. Leaving them outside in the cold and […]
A Poem to K
So Nearly There Painted man, upon your skin Danced pictures of your coloured past Hard on the outside, sweet within Through storm and sunshine you held fast To love of […]
Doorway, Social Exclusion & the Berlin Wall – Guest Opinion Column published in the Gazette & Herald Newspaper – Jan 2015
Way way back, 25 years ago, in November 1989 the Berlin wall was brought down by the people of Berlin. Not by the authorities but by the people on both […]
“Loss”
Loss is an empire built of poor stone Loss is a kingdom without any throne Loss is my love who never came home a dog bound and bleeding dreaming of […]
A Testimonial to the Work of Doorway
Doorway is an extraordinary project. From its humble, passionate beginnings, it has always managed to be more effective than would seem possible on the small amount of cash available. In […]
What’s new?
Doorway Writing Group Blog This small, yes, but perfectly formed group continues to work, sometimes in private sometimes in public at its poetry, its prose, its lyrics; its sometimes lyrical poetry, […]
Broken People Get Recycled / The Bully / Rainbows – Poetry by Liz Brady
Lisa of Doorway was recently e-mailed by Liz Brady, an English teacher and poet in the USA, who had found Doorway in a ‘random on-line search’. She offered us the use of three […]
Poems from Doorway SleepOut 2012
As written about elsewhere on this site, on Saturday 28th January 2012, the Doorway Sponsored SleepOut took place. This was timed to take place during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week, the theme for which this […]
My Name Is Not “Those People”
My name is not “Those People”. I am a loving woman, a mother in pain, Giving birth to the future, where my babies Have the same chance to thrive as […]
‘Dreams Deferred’ & Doorway’s ‘Moving On’ Project
I re-read a report, today, by Gerard Lemos and Stefan Durkacz (published by Lemos & Crane) entitled “Dreams Deferred” which was published back in 2002 but which is still very relevant […]
‘Doorways’: A poem by Terry Buchanan
Editor’s note – this poem has been published by homeless charities in the USA and Canada, and is reproduced here by kind permission of Terry, who is based in Chippenham. Terry […]
‘Doorway’ – a poem for Homelessness Sunday
This poem was written by jml10 for, and recited by him at, the Homelessness Sunday Service at St Andrew’s Church, Chippenham, on Sunday January 30th 2011. Doorway When I didn’t […]
A late delivery
This is a very late delivery, and it’s not because I’ve been stuck in the snow somewhere. It’s due mainly to having written it last week but then feeling that […]
Music
The writing group is virtually Doorway’s music group at rest, so there’s no wonder that it overlaps in more ways than one. The writing session follows on from the music, […]
Something about Ivor
A few weeks ago J lent me a book of poems by the Gloucestershire poet Ivor Gurney. He’d come up in conversation during one of our writing sessions when we found […]