SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA

LITTLE CHILD OF THE OBLIVION

I see you there

lost in your silence.

Nature didn΄t endow you

with gifts of life.

That's why you fight  hapless

in the sadness of the silence.

You laugh - who knows why

You talk to the passers

in your glimpse.

What could

comfort you?

Perhaps the prison of mind

extinguishes your dreams…

EXPECTATION

Our words  silent

move our steps

But an unknown spectator

wraps our wings.

Strength gives plenty

to care the Universe,

to be born again

Our fate in our bowels

desire her birth

to give breath to the life

Love and affection!

EUNUCH OF THE WORDS

I was  a little tired my old man,

I want to have a rest

I suffered from the Circe of the life.

See how we altered

our own language,

the one that with pain and honor

our  ancestors adore

but we led her

to cry in the gallows ...

Collection of poems  , Dreams of Oasis (Amphictyon of Hellenism, Department of  Literature, Thessaloniki, 2014 . The collection was also published in Italy under the title  Oasi dei Sogni, Il mondo dello scrittore, 2017)

SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA was born in Athens. She is graduate of Faculty of Letters, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.  She has a MA in Pedagogy , a PhD in Comparative Pedagogy and she is also a postdoctoral candidate (Faculty of Theology, University of Athens). Her scientific interests involve Teaching, School Psychology, Special Education, Ancient and New Greek Literature. She has worked as a translator in the Greek Embassy in Italy, in the Greek Community of Rome and to other institutions for Greek language, where she taught the Greek language in adults as a foreign language. Also, the Italian language in private institutions and the Greek language in the Italian School of Athens the last years. She has taught the lesson of Judicial Psychology-Psychiatry in the Faculty of Police Officers. 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. She has been elected and distinguished as ambassadress of Culture for Greece by the International Cultural Organization Universum Academy Switzerland (International University of Peace ,May 2016, Lugano, Switzerland). She is a member of the International Literary Organization Poets of the World, member of the International Literature Competition Universum, member of the Jury at the annual Literature Contest for the poetry and short story of the Cultural Association “OIKOPOLIS” and also a member of the jury of the 1st Panhellenic Literary Competition of Prose,  "KEFALOS". She published her first collection of pοetry (Amphictyon of Hellenism, Department of Literature, Thessaloniki, 2014) entitled Dream of Oasis, which has been translated and published in Italy in 2017 and won the second prize at the international competition in Milan. A poem of the same collection became a song. Her first Fairy tale entitled Geometroulides published in 2016. Recently were published her second and third collection of poetry entitled Neologisms and Melismos. She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers.