Short Chiggers Poems

still
picking
blackberries
clothes torn, skin bleeds
need to pee
chiggers
too...

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Biting mosquitoes and chiggers do not take anything away
From the beauty of the orange sky over the marsh at dusk
Bullfrog music adds to the ambiance of the evening...

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Have Been Trigger Happy

Has been know to have a horse named Trigger;
Actually is happy because his horse is bigger;
A blatant lie,
Will pass by;
Was ticked off after being bitten by a chigger.

Jim Horn

Leaver it up to chiggers and tics....

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chiggers get under my skin
biting me harder than I have ever been bitten
I feel an orange glow chastising my acceptance
but what can I do? They own the tall night grass
bullfrog bellows at me in a belligerent way
I feel lambasted and irritated
cat fishing has never been so mean...

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Fallen tree philosophy

At the back of the lot
Down near the stream 
Where the mosquitos swarm thick 
There is always a touch more breeze
Where the woodpecker tree fell
Near that mushroom spot
And the ticks and chiggers
Way back at the very back
On the sitting log
If you need me
That's where I will be...

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The thing about chiggers:
I’m glad they’re not bigger.
They’ll make you go dancing
Like A. A. Milne’s Tigger.

Avoid ‘em with vigor!
When they pull the trigger,
Get under your waistband,
You may need a jigger.

Of whiskey! Of whiskey!
You’ve gotta ask right,
'Cuz chiggers are red
And jiggers are white.

O, chigger! O, jigger!
They both like to bite.
The former’s a flea;
The latter’s a mite....

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