SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA

Pace*

Our dreams  a beardless youth.

Our words are sharp blades.

Our thoughts  a crossroads of dangerous transit

And while protest banners are erected everywhere

syllables are aligned to interpret our ideograms.

Birds accompany our trip

incompatible, passersby

but peaceful and hopeful.

*Peace

Luce *

The moons adorn your balcony tonight

are your beacons.

When lost from your field of vision

they will be there and let them not bother you

you will feel their lava cooling down your body

the divine light caressing your fingertips

secretly revealed to the elite

who will turn it into poetry

and they will baptize it in the font of the universal

values.

*Light

Shiver

Staring at the blue sky

I watch you and the time stand still.

The horizon is spreads and lost

like our words that remained inexpressible

I hug you ... freezing soul scraps

like the keys we buried

in the paradise of the lost Aeolian land!

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.