SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA

Beauty

I borrowed your eyes

to have a perspective view

of all those you admire

your lips, to commune suave sounds

your hands, to close your sighs in a hug

your mind, to imprison cold thoughts

your aura,

for headrest ...

Twin Trenches

They said that the world from above looks unreal.

I used to find this version funny.

Now absolutely realistic

I remember my anxiety to climb to the top.

No, you will not give up

you will overcome the fear, I mumbled…

The view is vast

In vain is the synergy with the universal ego.

The absolute non-existence ...

Ballad

The space looks empty,

however, it isn’t.

Friendly and yet distant.

Absolute immobility in dogmatic deprivation.

I light a cigarette to trick the ankylosing of thought.

Fantastic puppets enliven the digital environment

Helps as much as the algorithm of the mind.

The notes of the soul dance to the rhythm of a romantic ballad.

Attraction turns the page

the back cover blank.

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" and also a member of the cultural and social organization named “Amphictyony of Ellenism” based in Thessaloniki. Her poems have been translated into Italian, English, Spanish, Albanian and Romanian. 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, The teaching of classical languages in the Italian secondary education and Poetic visions in Paintings . Under publication in Italy her book entitled Didactic Trilogy: Body-Spirit-Soul, Educational Proposals . She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers.