SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA

OUR MASKS

In this theater of absurdity

I do not participate

Abstain

Elaborate, fanciful the masks of Venice

Made separately with a variety of ornaments

-murano and burano helped in this-

And while we boast with selfishness

the consciousness stooping over the canals

of the attractive city

reflects the face of the earth

Although she prides  to serve the art

feels shame

for the intangible face

And with grace seeks

initiation, shine

A world of hugs

A horizon full of golden sunrises…

FOR YOUR EYES

I am reconciled withthe words

looking at your eyes

feeling your pulse,

hugging your heart

The sound of our image becomes a song

lyra blessed in our hands,

garden blooming like our dreams…

CARVING

Life like a nectar

It sinks at your crossroad

I gather it ritually, unsuspecting

I adore everything  belongs to you

Like the poppies that emerge the purple

color on the meadow

As the echo of  Vivaldi’s opera

and a rock carved endlessly

from the wobble of the sea,

from the flood

of the intellectual pursuits ...

Poem awarded at the International Literary Competition of the «Kelaino», magazine of Literature and Art, Athens 2015

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). He has attended a number of training courses in special education and teaching, and especially in the teaching of literary courses. He has also been trained and certified in the Braille by the Center for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind. 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 2017and 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 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 Neologisms and Melismos. She is a regular member at the Pan-Hellenic Union of Writers.