SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA

SKLEIDA

Back To Yesterday

Turning back I would change the lay of the land to press steadily.

I would decorate the loneliness with lemon flowers

the pain with tulips full of sunlight

the nature flooded by the dew and joy of God

the bitterness with sweet and sour taste of happiness

your heartbeat with slow, lively awakening

your eyes with intense sincerity, so as not to lose their color.

Spectacles

The subconscious is in turmoil.

The pediment in place.

But its view is changing

as a rich frieze

And those stands that remained indelible over time

echo theatrical events.

Lost, unforgotten homelands

dreams echoing hidden desires!

Walls

The waterfalls of the mind gush clear water.

Stars like light fireworks inspire

The wall determines our destiny and the uprooting our destiny.

I want to touch your frozen hands

to embrace the heart

to warm up and give warmth

to bleed if need be

until they turn pink.

And then they will wash off the weight

of the epidermal effervescence!

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 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 literarure. 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 in other institutions she taught the Greek language in adults as a foreign language. She taught 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 and Cultural Organization Universum Academy Switzerland (May 2016- December 2018, 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 (Thessaloniki, 2014) entitled Dream of Oasis, which has been translated and published in Italy in 2017 (won the second prize in a international competition in Milan). A poem of the same collection became a song.  Her first Fairy tale entitled Geometrini published in 2016 and 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 respectively. She is currently publishing four books titled Ιn the Mediterranean, Poetic Reflections, Cappadocian theological references in handwritten verses and The teaching of classical languages in the Italian secondary education.She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers.