A common wild flower,
\nAnnual or short-lived.
\nThis name is also applied to similar species
\nWhere it has spread.<\/p>\n
A small plant of creeping habit
\nUsually found in partial shade,
\nThe plant has no rosette.
\nLeaves are contrary, alternate,
\nOften quite developed.
\nThe flowers are solitary.
\nIt can most often be the most sought after.<\/p>\n
It is common almost everywhere
\nNear the sea or inland
\nAt altitudes ranging from 0
\nIt grows.<\/p>\n
Ornamental and medicinal
\nCultivated, sweet,
\nThe seeds and roots
\nShould be used with caution.<\/p>\n
While the leaves can be used
\nTo indicate acidity
\nThe plant has low toxicity.
\nThe fresh plant, and its derivatives
\nHave proven to be useful,
\nGiving rise to high stability.<\/p>\n
According to mythology
\nIt is often used for idleness or vileness.
\nWhat Shakespeare had in mind was not a modern garden pansy.<\/p>\n
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A wikipedia poem… Every word in this poem was taken from the wikipedia article for Love-in-Idleness; no word is out of order, although of course many have been discarded when they weren’t quite what we needed at the time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A common wild flower, Annual or short-lived. This name is also applied to similar species Where it has spread. A small plant of creeping habit Usually found in partial shade, The plant has no rosette. Leaves are contrary, alternate, Often quite developed. The flowers are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135612,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135506\/revisions\/135612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}