SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

Love

Word that leads to the peace of mind

Enters the sanctuaries of paradise with an unknown destination

What can I tell you,

to convince you

to take care of your existence

do not fly to cloudy horizons

You have the anointing of humility

And if your light ever goes out, do not be afraid

You have the magic inside you

The wisdom of the Lord

The vibration of his transmissibility

Primitive collective memory is intertwined with the infinite inspiration of the multidimensional human

which, irreconcilable by nature, navigate his endless course.

 

 Euthanasia

You are leaving…

You seduce the moons of the mind

and leave

You enlist warriors of silence

You afflict

The sun is engulfed in your flames

Become incandescent.

They fight themselves,

their greatest enemy

Subconsciously open the step

wanting to learn…

The shroud they wore

cannot stand it

They will fight

until they feel strong again

worthy…

 

And then they will not pronounce

words of despair, but of joy

Their limbs will not hurt

as if flogged by Lernaean Hydra

Will proceed with erect bodies

Unknown the course,

sure the destination: The Immortality…

 

In Another Life

Maybe someday

meet the light that will glow in the dark

That will heal our wounds

will enchant the hearts

Maybe we will find the courage

to educate our mistakes,

to apologize

to break down the walls of existence

To joke carefree in the heavenly gardens

Those we forgot, we withered

Watering with tears…

Knitting thorn wreaths

Those we buried prematurely

Maybe…

 

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. Today she works as a teacher in the secondary education. 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, Didactic Trilogy: Body-Spirit-Soul, Educational Proposals . She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers.