Sticking With Poetry by Laurie Kuntz

Sticking With Poetry

For Renee Good, mother, wife, sister, poet. Rest In Poetry

It is always the troll, rude and despicable
who posts the unfathomable comment:

She should have stuck with poetry

after she, the poet, the activist, the lover, the mother, friend, sister
was brutally gunned down.

She should have stuck with poetry,

but the poetry she stuck with
made her who she was that day
not angry, just trying to resist,
to be the voice
that poems are made of.

She stuck with poetry, or poetry stuck with her,
that’s why she was a woman who loved a child
who strived in the world she hoped to make better,
who resisted, spoke out about right and wrong,
she stuck with poetry, so her words can stick with us
as she rests in this poem.

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Laurie Kuntz is a four time Pushcart Prize nominee and two time Best of the Net Nominee. In 2024, she won a Pushcart Prize. She published seven books of poetry. Her latest book published in 2025 is Balance, published by Moonstone Arts Center. In 2026, her 8th book, Shelter In Place will be published by Shanti Arts Press. Her themes come from working with Southeast Asian refugees, living as an expatriate in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Brazil, and raising a husband and son.
Visit her at: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1