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Updated Wednesday, Aug. 20: H&N's Midge Madness contest entries
Our Midge Madness contest page will be updated daily as new entries are submitted.
Wednesday, Aug. 20: By Teresa Rennick, Klamah County
THE GYRE TANGO
Three thousand hungry swallows
Sit patiently on the telephone wire
Waiting for midges to gather
For their nightly circle dance
By the roadside.
Party crashers, they make a
Dozen open mouthed forays
Onto the dance floor
Before turning in early
For a dreamless full-bellied sleep.
Not so the midges
Who move their all night party
Out onto the warm roadway,
Swirling, swooping, humming, whirling,
Mindless of the graceless intrusions,
The boorish cutting in
By nocturnal cars.
Monday, Aug. 18: By Angie L.A. Patton, Malin
First seeing what seems to be a dark cloud,
Get a lil closer, swarm's getting sort of loud.
Only tough in a pack, on its own it wouldn't act like that.
Their religion to sacrifice themselves, whenever you see them and anywhere else.
Something like a terrorist, putting its life on the line,
Soaring straight at cha, leaving green stuff behind.
Decoration, rot, string of decay, riding down the highway I shouldn't have to live this way.
A midge, that's what it is.
Thursday, Aug. 14: By Dolores Cooley
My brother and his wife came visiting one day
In his motor home from California way
As he pulled in the drive, he heard a great hum
and saw funnels in the sky where the sound came from.
We informed him these are midges, they don't eat or bite.
They cling to car windows and come to any light at night.
My brother keeps everything he owns well tended.
He groaned out loud when the midges descended.
From his anguished look, I knew right away.
The next family visit would be in Californ-i-a.
Wednesday, Aug. 13: by Mardi English
Do you think that in the future
So many will be missed
That Klamath's mighty midges
Make the endangered species list ?
Monday, Aug. 11: By Virginia Allen, Klamath Falls
Legend of the Giant Midges
Watch out! Close your mouth! Oh, Oh, too late, was my comment as I helped my granddaughter, Isabell, remove two green midges from her mouth.
Isabell asked, “Grandma, what are midges”?
I began to tell her the story of the giant midges of long ago.
They used to come into town in the summer time just as they do now, only they,were much larger. They would swarm into town, annoying every one in their path.
People had to wash them out of their hair every night and their shoes would be full of big green midges at the end of the day.
One day, Mr. Green was taking a walk outside when the midges came to town. He started swatting them and jumping up and down, trying to keep them off him. He started spinning around and around until he became dizzy. He sat down on the ground and noticed that the midges had gotten a little smaller and had moved away from him.
He wondered how that happened. He hurried home and told Mrs. Green. She told him it must have had something to do with his spinning around. The next day, Mr. Green went for a walk again and encountered another swarm of midges. He started spinning around again and the same thing happened; the midges got smaller and moved away from him.
As time passed, Mr. Green, each summer, during midge season, would spin around and around, year after year until there were hardly any midges that came to town anymore.
One day, Mr. Green had gotten too old. He could not spin any more. The midge swarms began to come back to town and the swarms got bigger and bigger, but the midges stayed very small.
Legend has it that if we can find someone to spin the same way Mr. Green did, the midges will get smaller and smaller and will disappear one day.
The End
Wednesday, Aug. 6: By Audrey E. Davis, Klamath Falls.
Let me tell you a story
About these little bugs I know.
I open my door and walk outside,
And they follow me wherever I go!
They get in my hair, fly around my face
And stick to me clothes like glue!
I do everything I can to get rid of them
And slap myself silly till I’m blue!
But I tell myself, it won’t be long
They’ll all be gone, we can breathe a sigh of relief.
Those little midges will hit the dust,
And won’t cause us any more grief!
Till next year!
Monday, Aug. 4, 2008: By Bonnie Williams, former Klamath Falls resident.
Midges are green and very tiny as well;
When they come a'swarmin off the lake, they create their own kind of h+ll!
They come in your room when you're alone in your bed
Then they make a beeline right straight for your head.
Buzzing, buzzing, right next to your ear
Till you wanna scream, please get me outta here!
They come through the screens, they come in through the door,
No, no, I can't take any more!
I get in my car and drive away to escape,
But they follow me everywhere! What a mess they do make!
You may someday find someone from Hollywood bizzes,
Making a horror movie about those pesky midges!
Monday, Aug. 4, 2008: By Marcia Humphreys
The midges are swarming
they’re helping us out,
When it gets to warming,
we’re right on their route.
They kill the mosquitoes
or that’s what they say,
Nothing rhymes with mosquitoes
and I itch anyway
So bring on those green bugs
I’m armed and alert,
I’ll get out the lawn hose
and give them a squirt.
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008: Smudgy Midge by Mikal-Ann Southby
Look out, here I come
Little green midges on the run.
Here comes a 747 down the highway
I’ll slow him down – my way
Splash. Better step off the gas.
Here come midges out in a mass.
On the antenna, grill and the hood
He’d like to avoid he, if he could
How could a little green bug be so bold
Who only lives to be 10 days old
I’m mean and lean and midge green
I’ve changed the color of many a car I’ve seen
But I’ll have fun, just for today
Come September, I’ll go away.
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008: By Tom Graham
Midge Salad Sprinkles
At dusk, place a halogen lamp in the yard, facing upward. As midges cook and collect on the hot surface, sweep them into a bowl.
Flavor by adding ground basil for Italian salad, chili powder for Mexican, curry for Indian, etc.
Using two or three lamps will increase production, obviously. With ten lamps, you can go commercial.
There is no danger of running out of midges.
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008: By Joanne Brown, Klamath Falls
There are midges, there are midges
Looking back at me.
There are midges, there are midges
Swarms I can see.
There are midges, there are midges
All across the lake.
On your windshield they will smash
And boy do they stink!
In your window, in your house
And midges in your sink.
We wait for chilly weather
So they will become extinct.
Oh yes, until the next summer…..
There are midges, there are midges
All around, you see.
There are midges, there are midges
Time for them to flee!
Thursday, July 31, 2008: By Jeff Revoir, Klamath Falls
While at Klamath Lake
A lot of people you'll see,
Bothered beyond comfort
By countless Midge,
Whenever you see some
Cover your mouth with your right and left hand,
For if you do not
Inside your mouth a they're bound to land,
Don't leave a light on outside your house
So by the midges it can be seen,
For they can make the color of your house
An unbelievably ugly green,
Although midges help control
The mosquito population,
They are so annoying
When you see them you'll run,
Midges are so disturbing
They are sure to annoy,
Every man, woman
Little girl and boy!!!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008: Ode to Midges by Rick Huddle
We’re green. We’re small. We fly in big clouds.
We’re midges, by gosh. Of that we are proud.
A “nuisance!” is what some people say,
But our proper name is chironomidae.
As people drive through us, they hear splats & sploshes.
(The only ones who like us, all own car washes.)
Some folks say, “sounds like it’s raining”
But we’re the ones dieing why are they complaining?
Now that you know us, we hope you understand
And can do us a favor- lend us a hand!
Don’t drive through and kill us. Leave us alone.
Besides.
With gas prices like this, it pays to stay home.
Wednesday, Aug. 20: By Teresa Rennick, Klamah County
THE GYRE TANGO
Three thousand hungry swallows
Sit patiently on the telephone wire
Waiting for midges to gather
For their nightly circle dance
By the roadside.
Party crashers, they make a
Dozen open mouthed forays
Onto the dance floor
Before turning in early
For a dreamless full-bellied sleep.
Not so the midges
Who move their all night party
Out onto the warm roadway,
Swirling, swooping, humming, whirling,
Mindless of the graceless intrusions,
The boorish cutting in
By nocturnal cars.
Monday, Aug. 18: By Angie L.A. Patton, Malin
First seeing what seems to be a dark cloud,
Get a lil closer, swarm's getting sort of loud.
Only tough in a pack, on its own it wouldn't act like that.
Their religion to sacrifice themselves, whenever you see them and anywhere else.
Something like a terrorist, putting its life on the line,
Soaring straight at cha, leaving green stuff behind.
Decoration, rot, string of decay, riding down the highway I shouldn't have to live this way.
A midge, that's what it is.
Thursday, Aug. 14: By Dolores Cooley
My brother and his wife came visiting one day
In his motor home from California way
As he pulled in the drive, he heard a great hum
and saw funnels in the sky where the sound came from.
We informed him these are midges, they don't eat or bite.
They cling to car windows and come to any light at night.
My brother keeps everything he owns well tended.
He groaned out loud when the midges descended.
From his anguished look, I knew right away.
The next family visit would be in Californ-i-a.
Wednesday, Aug. 13: by Mardi English
Do you think that in the future
So many will be missed
That Klamath's mighty midges
Make the endangered species list ?
Monday, Aug. 11: By Virginia Allen, Klamath Falls
Legend of the Giant Midges
Watch out! Close your mouth! Oh, Oh, too late, was my comment as I helped my granddaughter, Isabell, remove two green midges from her mouth.
Isabell asked, “Grandma, what are midges”?
I began to tell her the story of the giant midges of long ago.
They used to come into town in the summer time just as they do now, only they,were much larger. They would swarm into town, annoying every one in their path.
People had to wash them out of their hair every night and their shoes would be full of big green midges at the end of the day.
One day, Mr. Green was taking a walk outside when the midges came to town. He started swatting them and jumping up and down, trying to keep them off him. He started spinning around and around until he became dizzy. He sat down on the ground and noticed that the midges had gotten a little smaller and had moved away from him.
He wondered how that happened. He hurried home and told Mrs. Green. She told him it must have had something to do with his spinning around. The next day, Mr. Green went for a walk again and encountered another swarm of midges. He started spinning around again and the same thing happened; the midges got smaller and moved away from him.
As time passed, Mr. Green, each summer, during midge season, would spin around and around, year after year until there were hardly any midges that came to town anymore.
One day, Mr. Green had gotten too old. He could not spin any more. The midge swarms began to come back to town and the swarms got bigger and bigger, but the midges stayed very small.
Legend has it that if we can find someone to spin the same way Mr. Green did, the midges will get smaller and smaller and will disappear one day.
The End
Wednesday, Aug. 6: By Audrey E. Davis, Klamath Falls.
Let me tell you a story
About these little bugs I know.
I open my door and walk outside,
And they follow me wherever I go!
They get in my hair, fly around my face
And stick to me clothes like glue!
I do everything I can to get rid of them
And slap myself silly till I’m blue!
But I tell myself, it won’t be long
They’ll all be gone, we can breathe a sigh of relief.
Those little midges will hit the dust,
And won’t cause us any more grief!
Till next year!
Monday, Aug. 4, 2008: By Bonnie Williams, former Klamath Falls resident.
Midges are green and very tiny as well;
When they come a'swarmin off the lake, they create their own kind of h+ll!
They come in your room when you're alone in your bed
Then they make a beeline right straight for your head.
Buzzing, buzzing, right next to your ear
Till you wanna scream, please get me outta here!
They come through the screens, they come in through the door,
No, no, I can't take any more!
I get in my car and drive away to escape,
But they follow me everywhere! What a mess they do make!
You may someday find someone from Hollywood bizzes,
Making a horror movie about those pesky midges!
Monday, Aug. 4, 2008: By Marcia Humphreys
The midges are swarming
they’re helping us out,
When it gets to warming,
we’re right on their route.
They kill the mosquitoes
or that’s what they say,
Nothing rhymes with mosquitoes
and I itch anyway
So bring on those green bugs
I’m armed and alert,
I’ll get out the lawn hose
and give them a squirt.
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008: Smudgy Midge by Mikal-Ann Southby
Look out, here I come
Little green midges on the run.
Here comes a 747 down the highway
I’ll slow him down – my way
Splash. Better step off the gas.
Here come midges out in a mass.
On the antenna, grill and the hood
He’d like to avoid he, if he could
How could a little green bug be so bold
Who only lives to be 10 days old
I’m mean and lean and midge green
I’ve changed the color of many a car I’ve seen
But I’ll have fun, just for today
Come September, I’ll go away.
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008: By Tom Graham
Midge Salad Sprinkles
At dusk, place a halogen lamp in the yard, facing upward. As midges cook and collect on the hot surface, sweep them into a bowl.
Flavor by adding ground basil for Italian salad, chili powder for Mexican, curry for Indian, etc.
Using two or three lamps will increase production, obviously. With ten lamps, you can go commercial.
There is no danger of running out of midges.
Friday, Aug. 1, 2008: By Joanne Brown, Klamath Falls
There are midges, there are midges
Looking back at me.
There are midges, there are midges
Swarms I can see.
There are midges, there are midges
All across the lake.
On your windshield they will smash
And boy do they stink!
In your window, in your house
And midges in your sink.
We wait for chilly weather
So they will become extinct.
Oh yes, until the next summer…..
There are midges, there are midges
All around, you see.
There are midges, there are midges
Time for them to flee!
Thursday, July 31, 2008: By Jeff Revoir, Klamath Falls
While at Klamath Lake
A lot of people you'll see,
Bothered beyond comfort
By countless Midge,
Whenever you see some
Cover your mouth with your right and left hand,
For if you do not
Inside your mouth a they're bound to land,
Don't leave a light on outside your house
So by the midges it can be seen,
For they can make the color of your house
An unbelievably ugly green,
Although midges help control
The mosquito population,
They are so annoying
When you see them you'll run,
Midges are so disturbing
They are sure to annoy,
Every man, woman
Little girl and boy!!!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008: Ode to Midges by Rick Huddle
We’re green. We’re small. We fly in big clouds.
We’re midges, by gosh. Of that we are proud.
A “nuisance!” is what some people say,
But our proper name is chironomidae.
As people drive through us, they hear splats & sploshes.
(The only ones who like us, all own car washes.)
Some folks say, “sounds like it’s raining”
But we’re the ones dieing why are they complaining?
Now that you know us, we hope you understand
And can do us a favor- lend us a hand!
Don’t drive through and kill us. Leave us alone.
Besides.
With gas prices like this, it pays to stay home.
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Marty wrote on Aug 7, 2008 10:01 AM:
It might be dust
It could be fog
it looks like a dust devil
But no--- its green
O no Its bugs
and now its green fur--- all over my car "