Oh, Canada! 🇨🇦 I have lived in Canada my entire life; I was born and raised here. Canadians are often recognized for their friendly and apologetic nature. On a personal level, I have come to realize that I possess these traits, often giving people numerous opportunities and extending my trust to them. As you may have noticed from the title, I am throwing some maple leaf shade here. I won’t give you much context for privacy reasons, but publishing this poem on January 4th was intentional. If you like this poem, feel free to check out my other poetry musings here. ✨
Thanks for reading! ♡
What a beautiful poem Hilary! Happy New Year filled with happiness! 🎉
Thank you! Happy New Year, Ribana! 🤗✨
a beautiful poem indeed, Hilary… for outsiders everywhere…
There’s only one outsider that comes to mind who this poem was intentionally written for.
I figured… but I know there are more…
I don’t believe in spreading hate or bad energy on the internet, nor do I keep an active list of ppl or outsiders who have done me wrong.
As a Michigander I’ve had Canadian friends my whole life, so the stereotype never clicked with me since my Canadian friends were silly maroons just like me haha.
Also my friends from Edmonton really hated native Americans. 🤪
Haha silly maroons 😂 I live in Calgary which is sorta close-ish to Edmonton. I guess it depends on who you ask. Some of the nicest people I know are American.
Really enjoyed the poem. Canadians are really friendly from my experience and thankfully I had such lovely experiences with everyone I met. However, remember to not give people too many opportunities when they don’t deserve it. You need to set strong boundaries even when it’s hard to do in order to protect yourself.
Thank you for reading the poem, Pooja! I plan on uploading the rest of the WIP poems that have been sitting in my drafts folder.
I am naïve and like to believe kind people stay kind but this couldn’t be further from the truth. One second they are super sweet and nice. And the next they flip a switch and violate the friendship/severe it. I took psychology classes and realize that this has more to do with them than it has to do with us but I can’t help but take that shit personally *sigh*
Hence what inspired me to write this poem. ✍️
You’re very welcome and I look forward to reading more of your poetry.
I understand, I had a similar experience recently and can relate. It really does suck even when you’re not to blame.
I’ll try to upload the rest of my poetry this year. I need to give myself a deadline or it won’t get done lol 😂
Lol, I understand as a procrastinator myself 😅
Why do it today when you can put it off until tomorrow, right? 😅😂
That’s our motto lol 😂
Great poem!!
Enjoyed it
Thank you, Devang! 🤗
You are an excellent poet!!! And I truly love how you designed your poem layout; that inspires me to try out a layout like that for my next poem! 💖
Thank you so much! 💖 I still need to upload more than half of my drafted poems in this format, which I plan to do sometime this year.
I ended up using Canva for the layout. I didn’t like that ppl could easily copy and paste poems in standard WP format, and I also didn’t like the lack of editing features in standard WP format. It really came down to the editing preferences and the need to personalize my poems a bit more than copy/paste.
I still use standard WP format for parodies. Whatever looks more aesthetically pleasing I end up using lol
You used Canva?!!? Wow, awesome! I use it all the time for work and personal use!
Do you remember what you typed in the template search to find that layout you used? If not, it’s totally cool! Just thought I’d ask!
Yes! Canva is awesome. The template I use is called Pink Sky Stars under the paper border category. I ended up creating a palette of colors from there. Hope that helps! 🙂
Thank you so much!!! 😀
As I’m not Canadian, I had to Google to see what might be relevant about the 4th of January, and the only thing I found was Ribbon Skirt Day, which fits with the title but less so with the last line, which seems like people have let you down in a big way. Whatever the reason for picking the 4th of January, it’s a great poem
Very interesting. I have never heard of Ribbon Skirt Day, but I learned something new. I chose January 4th because that’s her birthday. Only reason I picked it, just in case this particular person happened to be reading my blog, even though I know she probably wasn’t.