SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

Invocation

 

To You, Our Lady of life

The distinct

You bridge the hearts of our world

You deceive the sun not to set

to offer a heavenly embrace

Generously you endure the pain

Wisely

You dominate

bright horizons

Your tears become earth’s breath

Your hands are solid rocks

You scatter clouds in your passage

Oh, our only, last hope…

 

 

Incarnation Of Love

 

Mother.

A touch of unselfish affection

Fluttering of knightly greatness

Vastness of mental beauty

You enliven vague memories

encourage charity events

change the flow of time,

of the historical error

You generously teach the universe

magnetize sea treasures

magically unlock the chests of the earth

You tirelessly endure the coming trials and tribulations

bury your wishes smiling

Motherly gaze illuminates the crowds

Builds castles

Gives vital energy

Freezes underground sighs

Defeats cunning enemies…

 

Blessed be Your name…

 

 

Anima*

 

You are trapped

Suffering because of sadness

You are passionate about the chills of the night silence

purified in the light of day

You heroically fight to oppose, to hold on

The supports no longer help you

They also fail to lure your cellular being

The human being, underperforms

For how much longer?

You wonder again

And you are confused

Take refuge in the self-sarcasm of the moment

Science fiction script for a short film

The protagonist, an endangered species,

with narcissism mocks his tragic fate

 

*Soul

 

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.