SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

Hours Of Meditation

 

Obedient the verse in the estrus of the youth

struggles in the quest for revival.

The call of life awaits

the filling

The words fluttering esoteric messages

and hide behind the shine of fragile emotion.

 

Mind Contracts

 

Immerse the earth in the rhythm of life

silk hair in the ether.

The sun embroidered gold cushions,

the universe feels the pain,

the notes of the time are silent.

Infinite the path of our thinking.

 

I Look Forward

 

I am impatient, as they were

expecting battles and glories

For words I have said and have not expressed

For filmed films that have not been judged

For trials that have taken place

and have not been implemented

For disgraceful motives of death, resentful

which changed the course of our history

For thoughts of peace that had no effect

For words of love that have hurt me

For heroes who defended our homeland

with their blood and have been forgotten

For famous actors

which tarnished our reputation

For those who refused our country

- pseudo- saviors-

that humiliated us

For uneducated people

-pretending to be wise-

who ignored us

For old friends who disappointed us

For all the values we have distorted

and the tradition we have neglected ...

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA was born in Athens. She studied Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she obtained her BA, MA in Pedagogy, Ph.D in Comparative Pedagogy and a postdoctoral research certificate . She obtained a certification in the Braille language. Today she works as a teacher in the secondary education. She took part in conferences and published articles in the Greek and international scientific journals, in conference papers and chapters books. She was awarded for her participation in poetry and literary contests in Greece and abroad. Her poems have been translated into Italian, English, Spanish, Albanian, Romanian and Bangla, her first poetic collection entitled Dream of Oasis (Thessaloniki, 2014), was translated and published in Italy in 2017 (won the second prize in an international competition in Milan). Her first Fairy tale entitled Geometrini was published in 2016, her second with the title The Kingdom of Joy 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,  Cor ad Cor Loquitur , A Second Life , Α trip to the country of “the meeting” , Let there be light, Sentidos Spirituales, A rustle of silence,Lyrical verses of paintings. She is Vice President of the Zakynthian Cultural Institute, Member of the judging committee for new members of the Association of Greek Writers,a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers and at the Association of Greek Writers.