Speak to Me with Flowers

Uri Assaf

1963

In winter, the rain beat down on the roof.
She said white was her favorite shade.
At hand he then gave her, his heart filled with joy,
A bunch of daffodils, fragrant and moist.
She laughed: “My dear sweet boy,
We shall speak once again in the spring.”
Speak to me with flowers, my love,
Speak to me with flowers.
Spring came. She sought to be…
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Creator Bio

Uri Assaf

b. 1936

Poet, composer, and playwright Uri Assaf was born on Kibbutz Kefar Menaḥem. He began writing poems in his youth. Assaf served in the IDF as an intelligence officer and fought in the Sinai campaign in 1956. After his army service, he studied education. When working as a teacher, he began writing plays that were performed by the kibbutz children. He left the kibbutz at the age of forty.

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