SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA

ARID LINES

Arid lines, routes,

everywhere shadows and you cry.

Everywhere silence, loneliness without light,

without anything to say.

How to pronounce, everything I want to see,

to endure the purpose.

Inside me is born, alive, this terrible robber

like an alien warrior.

The world has now changed,

nothing is in order,

as happens in the garrison.

Why all these happens,

and to these civilized children

who will teach the right?

What will happen to the few visionaries?

Dying in the past?

Why do we all struggle,

without any reward to tie our dreams?

The heroes have died, they do not stay with us

in the depth of our soul.

Let΄s pray, continue to dream

and not to be left prey to our fate…

HOURGLASS RECYCLING

The night is embarrassing

Dressed officially

is adorned

Opens her wings

addressed to us

The new day now is growing up

Both of them conspire

another dawn to come

VIAGGISPERDUTI

(Lost Travel)

In those frayed moments,

when the dream was lost

and the imagination invented shady games,

the body shared unnecessarily

in many transatlantic travels

What to say about San Diego, Bilbao,

Cabo San Lucas and New York.

the forgotten civilizations

Maia and Inca

And what about the island in the Indian Ocean

waiting for us

Bahamas, Maldives And Ibiza, 

looking for paradise.

White sandy beaches,

rare corals, wilderness.

I was looking, I wished, I longed for ...

And when I went to the twin towers,

I was blurred by the divine vision

Like an eternal magic ...

Then I realized our smallness,

but even more our humanity ...

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 Pan-Hellenic 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 2017andwon the second prize at the international competition in Milan. A poem of the same collection became a song. Her first Fairytale entitled Geometroulides published in 2016and her second fairy tale entitled The Kingdom of Joy was published in 2018.Recently were published her second and third collection of poetry entitled Neologismsand Melismos. She is a regular member at the Pan-Hellenic Union of Writers.