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  • HOME PAGE
  • FEATURED POET
  • A Little History
  • Our Members
  • Individual member pages
    • Carol Anderheggen
    • Juliana Anderson
    • Helen Burke
    • Brian Callahan
    • Stephen Carlone
    • Bill Carpenter
    • Diana Cole
    • Ana Arelys Cruz Cabrera
    • Malcolm Davidson
    • Helen D'Ordine
    • Victoria DuBois
    • Margie Keil Flanders
    • Donna Freeman
    • Noreen Inglesi
    • Kathy Kroener
    • Mary Ann Mayer
    • Kate O'Kula
    • Ira Schaeffer
    • Julia Meylor Simpson
    • Heather Sullivan
  • Our Completed Venues
  • Books by Members
  • How to buy member books
  • Readings and Media Outreach
  • Social media links
  • Contact Us
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  Ocean State Poets
ocean state poets -​-- giving voice
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IN MEMORIAM - - HELEN D'ORDINE
JUNE 26, 1943 -- AUGUST 7, 2022

​Helen D'Ordine was a member of the Ocean State Poets since its founding in 2008. Before that she was a member of the Writer's Circle and Power to The Poets.  She died last Sunday after a long battle with cancer and complications from a fracture that put her in a nursing home. She will be remembered for her gentle spirit and devotion to her family and late husband Tony.  

It’s safe to say that those of us who knew her are better people for her friendship and counsel. She was interred at the RI Veterans’ Cemetery with Tony, after a mass of Christian Burial at the Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where she was a very active congregant. One of her last sentiments as a poet, expresses her personal sense of loss with the death of her husband:
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PRONOUNS AND VERBS 
 When we became I 
and us became me  
then our became my. 

When is became was  
and love became loved  
then live became died. ​
Ocean State Poets--Rhode Island