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!

[Psyche]

Hi Larry,
I finally have time to comment on your great poem! Wow, both you and Denis have used all, or nearly all, of the eponyms.

Yes, I knew about New Orleans musical traditions when following the hearse. I like it. I believe people also sing in Ireland, and probably some other countries, it's traditional to be festive at a funeral.
In my country, funerals are dreary events. People all in black, and nothing but coffee to share. The dead are watched over all night, usually in a funeral parlour. Still, some of my friends and I slip out to a cafeteria and chat about all sorts of things... and laughter is common.

The burial is a separate event, of course, also dreary.

When my son Patrick died, a friend played a beautiful melody on a guitar, beside the grave. I loved that...

Goodness, your sonnet is amusing in an ironic fashion, seems to me. Probably the best way to tackle this sort of challenge. I had to chuckle about the fedora hat on Lazar in his coffin...

Youngberry black, his shell
was all that now remained. As he had planned,
he died; Winchester rifle in his hand.


Your imagination runs high, Larry! I love the ending, the way you used Winchester rifle... LOL.

Not sure whether I've understood your explanation about "Adonic". In this dictionary it says it's a measure used in verse, but then continues with "in Greek mythology, a youth know for his beauty" (we all know that!). Then it continues: "The Adonic metre was said to be first used in verses lamenting Adonis' death".

Still, dictionaries vary. You probably found it difficult to include that mixed meter in strict IP. Understandable.

Thanks for this fantastic answer to the challenge.

Cheers, Syl