{"id":190317,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/190317-no-one-ever-told-me-of-the-glory-of-growing-older-poem-by-susan-frybort","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/190317","headline":"​​NO ONE EVER TOLD ME (Of the Glory of Growing Older) || Poem by Susan Frybort","content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo one told me it would be like this— \u003cbr\u003ehow growing older is another passage of discovery\u003cbr\u003eand that aging is one grand transformation,\u003cbr\u003eand if some things become torn apart \u003cbr\u003eor even lost along the way,\u003cbr\u003emany other means show up \u003cbr\u003eto bring me closer \u003cbr\u003eto the center of my heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one ever told me\u003cbr\u003eif whatever wonder waits ahead\u003cbr\u003eis in another realm and outside of time.\u003cbr\u003eBut the amazement, I found,\u003cbr\u003eis that the disconcerting things \u003cbr\u003ewithin the here and now \u003cbr\u003ethat I stumble and trip my way through, \u003cbr\u003ealso lead me gracefully home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd no one told me that I would ever see\u003cbr\u003ean earth so strong and fragile, \u003cbr\u003eor a world so sad and beautiful.\u003cbr\u003eAnd I surely didn't know \u003cbr\u003eI'd have all this life yet in me\u003cbr\u003eor such fire inside my bones.\u003c/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ca href=\"https://susanfrybort.com/\"\u003eSusan Frybort\u003c/a\u003e, (author of Open Passages) poetry collection \"Look to the Clearing\"\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"No one told me it would be like this— how growing older is another passage of discoveryand that aging is one grand transformation,and if some things become torn apart or even lost along the way,many other means show up to bring me closer to the center of my heart.No one ever told meif whatever wonder waits aheadis in another realm and outside of time.But the amazement, I found,is that the disconcerting things within the here and now that I stumble and trip my way through, also lead me gracefully home.And no one told me that I would ever seean earth so strong and fragile, or a world so sad and beautiful.And I surely didn't know I'd have all this life yet in meor such fire inside my bones.From Susan Frybort, (author of Open Passages) poetry collection \"Look to the Clearing\" ","published_at":"2026-10-08T11:39:56-07:00","updated_at":"2026-10-08T14:28:33-07:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Poetry Alley","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/100043-poetry-alley"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Poetry Alley on Kudos365. View their photo published Oct/08/2026 on Health - Wellness - Nutrition - Aging. Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"photo","image":"https://k365fs.imgix.net/media/NX8FQmiFRAffEGxoZYbq_Aging%20-%20people-talking-908342_1920%20-%20Copy%20-%20Copy.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","likes_count":16,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Health - Wellness - Nutrition - Aging","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/917-health-wellness-nutrition-aging"},{"name":"Poetry","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/942-poetry"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/190317-no-one-ever-told-me-of-the-glory-of-growing-older-poem-by-susan-frybort","headline":"​​NO ONE EVER TOLD ME (Of the Glory of Growing Older) || Poem by Susan Frybort","image":"https://k365fs.imgix.net/media/NX8FQmiFRAffEGxoZYbq_Aging%20-%20people-talking-908342_1920%20-%20Copy%20-%20Copy.jpg?auto=compress,format\u0026fit=max\u0026w=1200\u0026h=1200\u0026q=48","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Poetry Alley","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/100043-poetry-alley"},"datePublished":"2026-10-08T11:39:56-07:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":16}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Health - Wellness - Nutrition - Aging","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/917-health-wellness-nutrition-aging"},{"@type":"Thing","name":"Poetry","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/942-poetry"}]}}