Thursday, March 12, 2020

Clothespins On A Line



Who grew up hanging their clothes on the clothesline? 



I did -- it was my job to do the laundry at the house.  And like everyone else we had a clothespin bag. 


A year or so ago my cousin gave me a little baggie of clothes pins. You might think - how weird.  Our Granny hang her clothes out on the line and had a clothespin bag with clothespins.  Now Granny has been gone a very long time but her clothespin bag and clothespins were still around.  The clothespins were divided up among the cousins for a remembrance. 

So I have had this plastic baggie of clothespin trying to decide how I wanted to display them.  I knew I wanted to write some kind of poem but nothing was coming together.  That's the way it is sometimes with poems.  I kinda know what I want to say but it just doesn't work like I want. 

Well, yesterday I saw a clothespin shadowbox with a hymn behind it.  I thought, well that's cool I'm going to save it.  Then I thought of Granny's clothespins and I thought a shadowbox would be a cool idea but I need something with it.  So I penned this little poem:



These clothespins on the line
Bring Granny to my mind.
Gone but not forgotten
I wander back in time.
Memories that make me smile
For just a little while.
Just a memory of my Granny

Clothespins on the line



Written by:  K. Marrs 03/11/2020


I will be putting together a shadowbox to hang with a cord of some kind with Granny's clothespins hanging on it and this poem below.  





2 comments:

  1. That's very heartwarming! I have a clothespin bag. My mom's was so used and worn out that it literally fell apart but the memories linger.🙂

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    1. The memories mean more all the time. Thank you for reading.

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