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.