2025 NaPM 13 April

[RiverNotch]

Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.


This year, there are no form requirements, only "tiers" or "rankings" given informally to all participants:

Bronze Tier: Participate at least once.

Silver Tier: Participate all days.

Gold Tier: Participate all days, and have all entries be the same form or have all entries be different forms.


Write a poem involving a hermitage. The four hermitages I can think of at the moment, which you could use as a point of reference, are: 

1. the various huts and other places of solitude across Egypt, Palestine, and Mount Athos; 
   
2. the depressing little hermitage at the end of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, or more generally the ornamental hermitages of 18th century country estates; 
   
3. the St. Petersburg Hermitage, where Catherine the Great collected art; 
   
4. and the Nashville Hermitage, where Andrew Jackson collected slaves.