SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

Effortless

 

The words blank indulgences

Our hopes dream unfulfilled

Betrayed love seeks solace in fleeting sounds of a voluptuous embrace

The rooftops jurors of a martyrdom passion

who confessed found redemption

And the anchors of the soul shout justification ...

 

 

 

Ι Surrender

 

Steps…

We count steps in life

Jumps tie us to the earth

Reflections whip our mind

Love agonizes over body

suffocated by the superficial explosion of mental tension

Love without care

wounded looking for volunteer beggars

The words are deceitful

Souls really small

The cracks of light are dwindling ...

They crush us

And this light - as a sacred Olympic flame –

fades into historic oil lamps

Promises

and spiritual achievements

are invalid

Guilt is the key

I stay here

And I suffer ...

 

 

 

Ashes

 

My soul, do not be in pain

smile heroically

Where you are

Wherever you go

Fight your way to the front

Do not be afraid

Life belongs to the brave

To the audacious courageous

Not to the common and humble

mortals

And if you are in pain, do not show it, do not cry

The strong don't cry

Neither do men,

they wear pants

For God's sake

They will make fun of you

They will expel you

They will call you insignificant and unworthy

And if you wish, keep it

And if you want, limit it

And if you crave something, grit your teeth

Do not miss the opportunity

To submit to the offensive

Wishlist of the rulers

To fall into the mud of their shoes

To identify with the darkness of their mental poverty

One thing don't forget,

To retrieve the wreck of your 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 Ph.D in Comparative Pedagogy and a postdoctoral research certificate . He has also been trained and certified in the Braille language. 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. 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 an international italian competition). Her first Fairy tale entitled Geometrini published in 2016 and her second fairy tale entitled The Kingdom of Joy was published in 2018. Some of her published works are the following: Neologisms, Melismos, Ιn the Mediterranean, Poetic Reflections, Cappadocian theological references in handwritten verses, The teaching of classical languages in the Italian secondary education, Poetic visions in Paintings, Didactic Trilogy: Body-Spirit-Soul, Educational Proposals. Under publication her books entitled Cor ad Cor Loquitur and A Second Life. She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers.