To Paulette

Poem by Joanna Dales For Paulette Meier

by Joanna Dales 21st January 2022

And have you taught the Quakers how to sing?
Us Quakers, who for more than twelve-score years
Have stilled our voices and made deaf our ears
To music, lest it hinder focussing
Upon the Light within, life’s seed and spring.
We were mistaken: you have stilled our fears,
By opening a way to joy and tears,
Setting our hearts budding and blossoming.