Love-In-Idleness

Smiling, it squirts its juices, delighting in matchmaking, just like Cupid, whose misaimed arrow, it recalls, once struck it. Lucentio and Bianca: a happy match; they owe much to it, it knows. Lysander and Hermia; Demetrius and Helena… well, they eventually thanked it too. But Queen Titania and Bottom… Love-in-Idleness giggles …A flower has to have its fun. Its scans the sleeping eyes wondering who is next for its powerful love potion. I’ve personified the flower, Love-in-Idleness (it mostly appears in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but is also briefly mentioned in The Taming of the Shrew) for Deb’s contest