SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

Think ...

 

Many the world’s sorrows

Nevertheless

everything would be tolerable

If we could see the light

distant but coveted

If we could be happy

Away from any disaster

If we could give a blessed love

And fill the glorious world with kisses ...

 

 

 

Diagnosis

 

You surprised me ...

your look

 your shadow

The one that has been following me for so many years

It lurks my steps

my every thought

Enters my every cell to remind me of your strong being

Bleeding is performed with a sacred ritual

Invisible but visible in the eyes of the soul

Intangible, but the essence a constant pilgrim

Lustful, but denied as a preservation of the inner healing

Recurrence is not provided by the prescription

 

Save, Lord, your people ...

 

 

I miss you

 

I miss you…

You are here but I miss you ...

I miss the pulse of your breath

  Your life-giving aura that causes storms

 The smile of your eyes that delights the inconsolable soul

 You are a grain of sand that exists everywhere

 In my memory

 In my mind

 In my sigh

 In my optimism

 In my grief

 In my faith

 In my infidelity

 In the ascension of the soul

 You are my sunrise and my sunset ...

  

SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA was born in Athens. She is graduate of the Faculty of Filology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.  She has a MA in Pedagogy, a Ph.D in Comparative Pedagogy and a postdoctoral research certificate . He has also been trained and certified in the Braille language. Today she works as a teacher in the secondary education. She publishes articles in the Greek and international scientific journals, in conference papers and chapters books. She has been awarded for her participation in poetry and literary competitions in Greece and abroad. Her poems have been translated into Italian, English, Spanish, Albanian and Romanian. She published her first collection of poetry (Thessaloniki, 2014) entitled Dream of Oasis, which has been translated and published in Italy in 2017 (won the second prize in an international italian competition). Her first Fairy tale entitled Geometrini published in 2016 and her second fairy tale entitled The Kingdom of Joy was published in 2018. Some of her published works are the following : Neologisms, Melismos , Ιn the Mediterranean, Poetic Reflections, Cappadocian theological references in handwritten verses, The teaching of classical languages in the Italian secondary education ,Poetic visions in Paintings, Didactic Trilogy: Body-Spirit-Soul, Educational Proposals. Under publication her books entitled  Cor ad Cor Loquitur and A Second Life, Α trip to the country of “the meeting”  .She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers.