1. Rhyming poetry to change your day

Rejection will not beat me!

January 23, 2023 Phil Lister2 Comments

Apply apply apply

Feels like I’m gonna die

It’s get me so very down

Every time It makes me frown

It’s over fifty applies now

One interview, negative, how?

I’m an immigrant, discriminated

I feel worthless, emasculated

Stuck in the same job, 6 years

Hier archie bringing me to tears

I’m qualified in the uk

It’s worthless here, just ok

Every email, NO, even one letter too

It all bemused me, rejection spews!

I just need one, I tell myself

I’ll even work for less, don’t care for wealth

I want my weekends, that’s all I need

Because my job refuses it, I have to pleed

They won’t give it to me, they do as they please

They want me to suffer, even if I have to bleed

I’ll do what ever I can, what ever it takes

To look after my family what ever my fate

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Philip lister 10/10/17

Taken from Rhyming poetry to change your day by Philip Lister

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1. Rhyming poetry to change your day

Job rejection

January 22, 2023 Phil ListerLeave a comment

You’re not good enough, there is always better

Speak two languages, qualified, whatever

Mouth off at them, why am I not in ?

There’s lots of good applicants within

Three months of applying, three months of this

Rejection constant, the agencies are taking the piss

I won’t be beat, even though it’s getting me down

Ok maybe for the moment it’s making me frown

Just wondering how long it’s gonna be

Applying for jobs to get one acception to be free!

Philip lister 24/10/17

Taken from Rhyming poetry to change your day by Philip Lister

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Reconciliation

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 Phil Lister1 Comment

Live your life, live it full

One chance only to play the ball

It’s too short to hold a grudge

Getting you down, had enough?

Be the bigger person, don’t be small

Take courage my friend and stand tall

Family feuds we know they go on

It eats you up, you need to move on

Reconcile with them, pick up the phone

Do you want to die feeling alone?

If you could change one thing what would it be?

If it was me, build my bridges, set myself free

Your mother, your father you only get one

Stop blocking yourself on why it came undone

Surely sometimes you may have to swallow pride

It’s too late if something happens and that person dies

If you say it, what you want to say today

Get it off your chest, put it into play

Then you’ve accomplished something, an enormous step

You can be proud of yourself, now you can make the next

Poem taking directly from my book “Rhyming poetry to change your day” I hope yours is good, come what may.

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Dare to defy

May 3, 2018May 8, 2018 Phil Lister3 Comments

Why do we always want more?

Why does it eat us up?

What difference does it make?

If we want to change our luck

Do we suffer from greed?

Is it a bad thing?

Is it installed in us?

This constant need to win

We cannot stay still

Static in daily grind

Parallel continually

Like a boring line

DARE TO DEFY

Scream and shout

Turn it on its head

Show life what you’re about

You can be better

Selfish, hell yeah

Grab the bull by the nuts

Make that bugger scared

Positive, a winner

You are number one

You have all the power

This battle is won!

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You can win!

February 27, 2018April 6, 2018 Phil Lister5 Comments

I feel I need a boost

If I wish to raise the roof

The next step is before me

I hold my own liberty

I am strong, courageous

Life is tough, laborious

I defy, nothing will stand in my way

Different and proud, there is always another way

Have faith, make your own fate

Believe in you, make mistakes

Learn, grow, flourish like a flower

This is for you, it’s your hour

Never has it mattered more to make your decision today

Life is yours to make it, you align the way

Positivity is your tool

Use it, break the walls

Scream, make noise, shout

That’s it, let it all out

Beat that negativity into the ground

Until you can’t hear it make a sound

Breathe that air, take it all in

Go for it, you can win!

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Yes! Success!

February 6, 2018February 27, 2018 Phil Lister5 Comments

In England

I had a good job

I was somebody

It meant a lot

I met someone

Things advanced

She fell pregnant

Wanted to return to France

We moved to France

Left my job

To have a baby

Gave up the lot

I regret not

The choice I made

To be a dad

Even if I was afraid

To be isolated

Conversation nul

Mute even

Life so dull

To start working

In fast food

Never thought possible

But I pushed through

Emasculated

Never felt as trapped

Not able to move

Started to look back

No, no, no

Same email always

With our regrets

Their negative way

I got a 4th interview

A large company

I sold myself

Take a chance on me

The next day at work

I see their lorry

Never noticed before

Will it be fate?

Will I be sorry?

I told myself

If it’s meant to be it will

Angie wished me Irish luck

And told me to chill

Finally some luck

Had shone on me

I’ve got the job

I’m so happy

8 months of applying

Depressing as it’s been

400 applications

Felt like a has been

I told my work

The news today

They were happy for me

In their own way

Goodbye to the fast food

The people that gave me my chance

Now to the new chapter

March the 12th I will dance!

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Job Interview

January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 Phil Lister1 Comment

Nervous,

It could all change

Life could become

Ever so strange

Can’t sleep

Can’t eat

What’s it doing to me?

I’m so stressed out

Is it to be?

That stress before

The work I put in

All that paperwork

Just to put in the bin

Research

Prepare

Do everything I can

Tell myself stay calm

Stick to the plan

It’s just a job

I know

It doesn’t change things

That uncertainty before

All the stress it brings

I won’t tell anyone

Not even my mum

Hearing no

Never been fun

Self confidence gone

Success ratio down

All these rejects

Make me frown

Approach it calm

All you can do

Take a deep breath

Have faith in you

Do I deserve this?

Is it finally a yes

Am I gonna get it?

After this

I’m gonna be a mess

Fate is gonna come knocking

One day

You will see

When you hear that yes

Your gonna be happy

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Inspirational November

November 20, 2017November 20, 2017 Phil Lister8 Comments

I am incomplete

Stuttering heartbeat

Repeating mess

All the less

Undefined

Passionately blind

Egoist

Seeking bliss

Looking forever

Trying to be clever

Raising hell

Alarm bells

Impossible challenge

Beat and avenge

Thrive to be

Someone free

Life to short

Cannot abort

Cowards way out

I scream and shout

Toujour defiant

Constantly reliant

Ask my friend

We do not bend

Change life

Take a knife

Cut through the wall

Stop being small

Today be you

That’s all you can do

Tomorrow is too late

Hey, why wait

I love being positive, it’s certainly not easy, but if I can make one person feel positive it will make me happy. I’ve had a really crappy long month, (we’re 20 days through) if your feeling down look at 1 positive point in your life and write me a comment noting it, bless yourself with that! And build from there, write a poem screaming out, there are many things in life that get us down if we let them, but there are many people worse off then me so I am the lucky one.

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