SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

Melismos 

God ,with grace and blessing

endowed me with courage in my birth

The surrounding atmosphere was ideal for excellent phases of development integration

Being lucky, I got auspicious omen…

Tears of erotic instinct

Humanitarian spirit to provide a valid recipe for survival

The filling was achieved by the galloping intellect.

Women's dance evokes remorse of common consciousness

to crown collective and unhistorical outbursts of eloquent rhetoric

And you - I

reflect

Spearhead

The absolute minimum of mental evacuation…

 

 

 

Wider Than The Heavens

Virgin of the Saints

You, Mother of God

That you constantly take care of our needs

You are mediating for our sins

You fight our enemies

Please, hear our prayers

We humbly turn to You

to forgive us

have mercy on us

To illuminate our path and cure our mental illnesses

To give us strength to curb our passions

and our weaknesses

To face the difficult moments with patience and prudence

To respect life, the diversity of people, the divine blessing

To bow to the greatness of mother nature

To act by legitimate means

To express humanity and a merciful disposition to all without exception

Encourage us to useful actions

To cooperate with a spirit of mutual understanding

To share the timeless mysteries in order to receive divine grace and enlightenment

To you

Our Lady of Amaranth Rhodes!

 

 

 

Naughtily Thrown

You God,

sculpted your work

With an anvil and a hammer

To make us strong, to give us a solid thought and to cover the nakedness of our soul

With your innocent spiritual garment

But ignorant of your words and deeds

we have moved away from the original, the first cause that leads and contributes to the "exaltation of the soul"

and transforms into "Anima mundi" ,

that unites us, concerns us, motivates us

Slippery arguments in a dumb homeland ...

 

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.