• Home /
  • Search By Tags

Poverty stories, books, poems, and more

335 results

Related Tags:

poverty, hopelessness, love, helplessness, life, despair, death, poor, unemployment, war, poetry, children, depression, homelessness, suffering, hunger, australian fascism, hope, society, crime, family, world, abuse, god, wealth, corruption, desperation, drugs, government, africa, failure, homeless, pain, rich, peace, politics, sad, sadness, child, dark, human, care, fiction, help, money, people, poem, sex, australiana, bradley
What if they don't have a pencil? Read More

Tags: school, kids, poverty

Poem / Other

November 29, 2018

Reads: 109

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: dark, poetry, society, sad, poverty

A personal narrative about the New Orleans mission trip I went on in the summer of 2018. The main portion focuses on the homeowner we worked for, Miss Norma. She was an incredibly humble and grateful woman that had been torn down the countless natural disasters (such as hurricane Katrina)… Read More

Tags: poverty, work, church, mission-trip, youth-group

Debra O'Brien and Fred Watson arrive in Hamilton City, New Zealand, with Michael McCullum to visit his unemployed sister in a parallel world. But, in this world, there is no unemployment benefit. The unemployed have to live on the street and rely on the city mission and begging for food.… Read More

Tags: poverty, homelessness, unemployment, multiverse, parallel-universe

Short Story / Non-Fiction

September 23, 2018

Reads: 126

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Little Peach is a story about overcoming adversity. A premature baby girl is born to parents who don't care for her properly, an incredibly selfish mother and an alcoholic father. This story takes you through the first few years of her life, and how her experiences molded her to… Read More

Tags: depression, abuse, poverty, alcoholism, courage

Poverty is a structural problem created by economic thinking errors and institutional poverty traps, revealed and discussed in detail in this book. Neff argues that America is a welfare state. The working poor are a social problem created by politics. The low minimum wage does not support a most… Read More

Tags: politics, poverty, midterm-election, gerrymandering, call-to-action

Poem / Poetry

August 30, 2018

Reads: 91

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: poverty, black, class, poor, socioeconomic-status

Book / Romance

July 10, 2018

Reads: 497

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The Moon and the Shadow is a book based on true life story, combinations of real life experiences and imagined aspect of the writer's work and relationships. It's not the conventional love stories you are familiar with, it's how ordinary connections become an eternal fellowship. It's a story you… Read More

Tags: love, children, government, poverty, economy

In this article I am raising awareness for the UNDP's 17 Global Goals to end poverty! Read More

Tags: poverty, awareness, campaign

Tags: poverty, slum

Poem / Poetry

March 15, 2018

A man gets a helping hand is unsure to take this kind gesture. Read More

Tags: love, romance, beauty, help, poverty

a child best friend is incapacitated. a family member promises to help. the aid turns out unexpected. . Read More

Tags: humour, memoir, poverty

Essay / Non-Fiction

December 18, 2017

Reads: 263

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

An essay describing a personal experience of mine, along with the lesson behind it. Read More

Tags: philosophy, poverty, charity, generosity

Book / Other

December 10, 2017

Reads: 130

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This is a project I started at the beginning of the year. It is about a fictional character Eric Vandermore who goes through life not realizing he is a prodigy. Many people see his differences as strengths but no one is able to take him away from a life… Read More

Tags: childhood, abuse, poverty, different, eduation

My goal is to explain through each miracle in my life why I feel that God's presence dwells with me and how he has blessed me since I was born. All stories are inspired by the truth though some details may be altered because I simply do not recall… Read More

Tags: death, life, reality, poverty, miracles

Poem / Poetry

November 19, 2017

I wrote this poem from the perspective of a homeless child. Read More

Tags: poem, poverty, homeless, literature, english

Poem / Non-Fiction

October 30, 2017

Reads: 185

Comments: 2

The Booksie Classic House

feeling emotionally unstable . . . Read More

Tags: anger, heartbreak, emotion, poverty

Poem / Poetry

October 23, 2017

Reads: 272

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Elite Writing House

Tags: life, reality, truth, poverty, grateful

There was one particular day in my life that I will never forget. I had an interaction with a homeless man. It wasn't uncommon for where I lived, because there were many homeless people in the city. We went to a local restaurant and he told me his story.… Read More

Tags: hurricane, poverty, homeless, poor, new-orleans

Poem / Other

October 11, 2017

Reads: 214

Comments: 4

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: death, hunger, poverty

Essay / Editorial and Opinion

September 15, 2017

Reads: 166

Comments: 6

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: poverty, wealth, bigotry, outrage

This was a short story task for a creative writing class I took. The task was to include a lullaby of some kind in the story and have it recited by a character. I chose to write about the possible effects of outsourcing in certain communities and how it… Read More

Tags: poverty, addiction, outsourcing, tragic

Essay / Other

June 13, 2017

Reads: 321

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: philosophy, poverty, essay, lesson

This Is my written book. Everything I share is true. Let Me Introduce Myself To vancouver BC My name is Nina McCutcheon and I came from London Ontario Canada. Hi Vancouver BC. I love your Mountains, you have beautiful Country here. I believe you do not know how blessed you… Read More

Tags: poverty, answers, governments, systems, activist

Poem / Poetry

May 02, 2017

Reads: 153

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Poverty is an injustice. Read More

Tags: poverty, rural, oppression, cycles, city

Why has every single country in Africa, post-colonial rule, degenerated into a decaying, crumbling, stinking, dung heap? Read More

Tags: poverty, social-collapse

A research paper written in an attempt to understand the causes of, and solutions to, the problem of global economic stratification. Read More

Tags: poverty, inequality, stratification, global-inequality

the unbridled desire to procreate has plunged and is plunging many in nigeria into yet deeper mire of impoverishment. newlyweds are urged by well-meaning friends and relatives to have sizeable number of kids and soonest irrespective of their capabilities and well being. thus, children are born with poverty as their… Read More

Tags: children, poverty, parenting, nigeria

A short flash fiction or poem about man's arrogance and apathy for anything seen as less. Read More

Tags: poetry, life, loneliness, alienation, poverty

Earnest Young is a struggling artist living in poverty in the 1920s. His only hope at salvation is the mysterious vampire Mr.Wright who he discovered living next door Read More

Tags: vampires, angst, poverty, suffering, immortality

Booksie 2019 First Chapter Novel Contest

Welcome New Writers

deborah l king
LMA222
DanDin
Jim Brockman
Paul Perroni
Joel Simmonds