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.
