The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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Im A Man
I see the writing
On the wall
I see you baby
Gonna make you feel small
Sweet darlin
Ooh you gotta be mine
Im gonna love you baby
For about a hours time
Cause Im a man
Spelled m
Spelled a
Spelled n
Yes Im a man
Im a man
Oooh
I was motivated
Back in town
I saw a cadillac sign sayin
No money down
So I eased my breaks
And I pulled in my ford
Ive gotta have that car
I go ridin down the road
Mmm let me say it again
Ahh yeah let me tell you again
When I was a little boy
A-not but five years old
A-my mother told me son
A-you got a lotta lovin in the fold
cause you gonna be a man
A-youre gonna be a man
A-youre gonna be a man, a youre gonna be be be a man
song performed by by Led Zeppelin
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IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
quote by Murray Walker
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I'm a singing rainbow
When my eyes are blue
I’m a sky-spelled beam of Heaven
Singing icons of beauty
Brown
I’m an autumn singing
Falls of leaves to the ground
Yellow
I’m millions of suns
Singing rays of warmth
Green
I’m a throbbing rainforest
Singing fibers of creation
Violet
I’m a tiny flower singing
Strength of growth
Rad
I’m a blood-spelled shade of Light
Singing peace of darkness
When my eyes are empty
I’m a singing rainbow
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Traveller handwarm
the lamb in the blood a traveller moonlit
the lamb in the blood a traveller sunlit
the lamb in the womb the sky spelled cloud
the walker in the mud a traveller lightless
the walker in the mud a traveller darkless
the walker in the lamb the sky spelled step
a silent road in the traveller's book
a silent road the traveller took
a silent road after a storm
a traveller path traveller handwarm
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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I’m a Blinky Bill
An awestruck daydreamer
I cut words into lights
Beep warned still blind
Silence spelled and bound
Freedom sought redeemer
Reaching peaceful heights
Where words in mills I grind
Language prone
Euthanasia patches
To let them rise to the throne
Of a silent word that matches
The silence which outstretches
A hand in a hidden sign
The word beautiful and most benign
The word that hurts no one’s soul
The word which echoes the highest pole
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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The thing that stands there
is the window
and there's a man on it
he's waiting for the man
with the panes made of sight
on the window of the heart
in the house of pain
his threshold is spelled
the spell out of the hints
the corner loneliness
unwipeable trace
to settle in a word
chiseled in a clock
a second counted down
on the wall that beats
where to come in with a whisper
can only be done by a step
clear of any thought
bursting in the word
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Wake Up
The attribute Haji helper to another god in need
He Allah God Islam
As I proceed to civilize the uncivilized
Word to wisdom from the groove to the wise
I guess I'm like the verbalizer for the fact I'm moving blackwards
This asiatic black man is a dog spelled backwards
The maker
song performed by by Brand Nubian from One For All
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Don't sleep on the ground during those months that are spelled with an r.
A Sound
Silence swaying swelled
Reverberations
Whisper broken spelled
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Of jealousy I can but say
it's envy spelled another way
and only add, unless I'm wrong,
funny matter for a song
poem by Morgan Michaels
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
quote by Victor Hugo
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The 'l' Word
At one time she said, 'I love you'
But not now the way her life leans.
She no longer wants to say that phrase;
Wondering what it really means.
'Love' is only the English word that's
Felt the same in every nation.
She may be bi-lingual but for her,
This word loses in the translation.
Though this word has hurt us both,
Neither she nor I disdain it.
So, in trying to lay aside her fears
I'll endeavor to explain it.
For the word 'love' most writers,
Do not seem to lack words
But, I think I can examine it
By looking at it backwards.
Spelled in reverse it's 'evol' and
No matter what book you bring
If you search for the definition,
It doesn't mean anything.
But if you add two letters
Specifically 'V' and 'E'
It will now spell 'evolve',
Important in being a 'we'.
To evolve is a great concept
As love rises in the caring heart
But, here is the main caveat
To grow together and never apart.
More than some fancy word play,
It’s a recipe clear and true
That the menu of life can change if
The ingredients are the right two.
For Yana
poem by Edward Iacona
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Guess my name please
From the Kindergarten I never mentioned my spartan name till I expelled from the school,
But unfortunately I spelled my rusty name to a hypocrite
When I got the franchise to vote.
poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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An Ailment Called Myself
I am trouble spelled out to sound like innocence,
a clever decoy to pose my cruel decisions as good intent.
Peel back my soft edges
and you will find broken glass, bullets and evil things.
I hide the dangerous parts of me so well
my favourite role to play is the victim.
Always the one being hurt
and never doing any of the hurting
but behind hazy eyes
and battered confidence
lies oceans of dishonesty
skies of infidelity
and a universe of an entirely different woman.
I am never
who you think
I am.
poem by Vanessa Grixti
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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
quote by Anna Pavlova
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Difficult Situation
so yet again I find it
but this is the worst one yet
tears come from the frustration
of course I'm in love with you
I've practically spelled it out
when you've said it
was it a joke? at first
but now it's giving me knots
because all those ways you
showed that you love me
don't be thinking that I forgot
poem by D.M.L. Catseye
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To Rosa ----: Acrostic
I took a Rosebud from a certain bower,
And by its side placed an Orange flower,
Then with the Speedwell, blended the perfume
And the sweet beauty of an Apple-bloom,
And thus, 't is one of the loveliest feats,
Is spelled a gentle lady's name in sweets.
poem by Henry Timrod
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A memory of a seashell
I had no past
I had no future
I was always now
rushing to its silent end
sea sheltered salt scented
infatuated murmur
dying in a wave
grain spelled I simply melted
within a sea blue grave
oblivion
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Djolan
Soft was the night, the eve how airy,
When through the big, fat dictionary
I wandered on in careless ease,
And read the a's, b's, c's and d's!
But stop! What is this form I see,
Beginning with a hump-backed d?
I pause! I gasp! I falter there!
It is the djolan, I declare!
It is the djolan, wond'rous word!
The Buceros plicatus bird!
Ne'er, ne'er before had I the bliss
To meet a djolly word like this!
'Twas djust before my dinner hour --
Well, let the djuicy djoint go sour!
Djoyful I read. I djust must see
What this strange djolan word may be!
Ah! ha! It is a noun! A noun!
(A ''name word" as we say in town)
"E. Ind. The native name of the
Year bird." These are the words I see.
"A hornbill with a white tail and --"
The big book trembles in my hand --
"-- plicated membrane at the base --"
Ah, well-a-day! If that's the case!
"-- base of the beak, inhabiting --"
Oh! dictionary, wond'rous thing!
"-- the Sunda Islands ----" Where would we
Without our dictionary be?
"-- Malacca, e-t-c." That's all!
I let the dictionary fall.
I am replete. All is explained.
Knowledge (it's power) is what I've gained!
Soft was the night, the eve how airy,
I read no more the dictionary,
But Oh! and Oh! my heart was stirred
To learn the djolan was a bird!
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poem by Ellis Parker Butler
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Make It Big
Make it big
So big
You can make it big
You can make it bigger than life
See your name spelled right
Up on the bright lights
Bright lights
Have a little faith in yourself
In everything that you do
I know youre gonna make it big if you want to
If you really want to
You can make it big
Bright lights
Have a little faith in yourself
In everything that you do darlin
I know youre goin make it big if you want to
If you really want to
Baby youre a superstar
Lookin like youre goin far
Do what you want
Why dont you do what you wanna
You could be my little movie queen
Up there on the silver screen
Do what you want
Go on and do what you wanna
Catch a plane to hollywood
And right away youre best buddys
With johnny b. goode
And he say
Baby welcome to the neighborhood
Now you can do what you want
Do what you wanna
You can make it big
You can make it bigger than life
See your named spelled right
Up on the bright lights
Bright lights
Have a little faith in yourself
In everything that you do
I know youre goin to make it big
If you want to
If you really want to
You can make it big
Bright lights
Have a little faith in yourself
In everything that you do
I know youre goin to make it big
If you want to
If you really want to
You can make it big
So big
Make it big
Oh I know you can make it
Everybody you can make it
Yes I know we can make it big
Darlin you can make it
I know youre gonna make it
Oo baby you can make it big
song performed by by Beach Boys
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