A Dream

Abraham Kopolovitz was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1930. During the war he was imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto. Abraham left a notebook of poems and drawings.

Abraham wrote the following poem when he was confined in the ghetto, living in harsh conditions. Nevertheless, the poem describes a very different reality.

The poem contains many verbs expressing Abraham’s longing to leave the ghetto and travel the world. Highlight the verbs in the poem.



A Dream \ Abraham Kopolovitz


When I grow up and reach the age of twenty
I will go out and see our lovely world.
I will sit inside a bird with an engine
Take off and rise up to the sky, high above

I will fly, sail above a distant and beautiful world
Pass by rivers and seas
To the sky I shall climb and soar
The cloud my sister, and the wind my brother.


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