SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA

Mental Contact

One paper, two notes

two words

they are enough ...

The estrus shy kid in the corner.

Innocence is lost as the time contract expands.

The rain refreshes the grass

and the pure childlike soul thirsts for learning.

I Feel You

You sneak through the glittering windows.

You swirl on classic wooden structures.

I've imagined you on lonely evenings,

on solitary walks,

with unanswered rhetorical questions.

The rinsing of the rain will resurrect the delusional heartbeats

and the soul will be lifted by the weight of the inner flood.

Heresy

Dew drops are our hopes.

The time is running out suffering in the present.

The sighs dry in the sun of justice.

Empty wagons the thoughts.

Heretical the reflections.

And this impatience disturb the line of reasoning.

The odes sound.

The time has come!

Travelers

This light in the crevice ...

affirms courage

Demand curve looking for a way out.

The grilles are smuggled in

Like the night trains with the curious travellers.

The weight of silence spreads.

Redeemer and detector

into the illusion of an attractive

world

that fascinates you.

You surrender

You are proclaimed a sovereign revolutionary!

Ode

Our dreams have been shattered.

They could not stand to suffer on a lonely canvas.

They crossed the land border

to paint the youth of the world

with indelible intellectual touches

The borders inaccessible, unattended.

The common zone in protest.

The single market grinning in our demands.

and the “New Laws” * are struggling to break the boundaries of time

groping our wounds ...

*The term “New laws” refers to the fourth and final part of Justinian's legislative work

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.