Eponyms Challenge, Eponyms are common words derived from proper names Options

[Psyche]

Hi all poets and writers!

You're invited to answer this challenge using the Eponyms listed below. These Eponyms are taken from Webster's NewWorld Dictionary of Eponyms, first published in 1990. It contains the origin of the eponyms, as well as examples and explanations.

You may write sonnets, villanelles and any other form. You may also write in FV.
Post as many pieces as you wish, but each poem must include at least 10 of the Eponyms indicated. As usual, you are free to pluralize, personify, remove Caps if it's wise to do so, or use them as metaphors. Whatever!


Achilles Heel

Bartlett Pear

Micawber

Saxophone

Winchester Rifle

Youngberry

Zealot

Gentian

Fedora

Eristic

Baloney

Adonic

Lazar

Lobelia

Ganymede

Gardenia

Sedan

Greengage


Best of luck, hope you enjoy this new challenge!

[Larry]

Planting

Lazar, or what was left of him, now rode
in grey sedan to lead the second line.
From saxophone and trumpet music flowed
as he, in white fedora, lay supine
upon gardenia and gentian bed.
Micawber, the mortician, thought it best
although it was eristic for the dead;
but his Achilles heel was zealot’s test.

He’d tried lobelia and greengage bloom
mixed with sliced Bartlett pear to stanch the smell
from poor Lazar’s leprotic flesh... the doom
of all disease. Youngberry black, his shell
was all that now remained. As he had planned,
he died; Winchester rifle in his hand.


Eponyms used: lazar, sedan, saxophone, fedora, gardenia, gentian, micawber, eristic, Achilles heel, zealot, lobelia, greengage, Bartlett pear, youngberry, Winchester rifle


note 1: "second line" is a New Orleans tradition of sending off the dead with a musical parade following the hearse.

note 2: Writing in strict IP, I found it difficult to include the eponym “Adonic” because it has nothing to do with “Adonis” but is actually a verse of poetry with mixed dactyl and spondee or trochee.