SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA 

Divine Waves

 

Are you scared?

Who is not afraid of loss, eternal escape

But I am more afraid of annihilation, of self-undoing,

of the terrestrial airtight

prison ship

The shackles of the mind and soul to avoid

They trap you, they blur your thinking

And you?

You simply deny that you have been

You lived and you live

You loved and you hate

You were betrayed and forgiven

Until you wake up from the nightmare and divinely emerged as Aphrodite hopeful ...

 

 

On The Soul

 

Your texture is indestructible, eternal

The timeless Father took care

To have pure intention

To purify our soul from earthly, meaningless and temporary pleasures

which make it a hermit passenger on an unmanned ship

without cruising compass

Trapped

with weird stories, witnesses of delusion and dark labyrinths of eternal intoxication

Our Godfather invites us to make a big deal,

repenting

To provide, praying

Have mercy, humiliated

To live in ethereal mystagogs

and spiritual courtesy

 

Spirituality

 

I'm afraid

The impossible of the expected

the suddenly tragic

The possibility of the impossible

The unexpected desolation of our nature

I Touch

things you left behind while struggling to darn your perishable coat

To awaken the wonders of the world

To spread tentacles of compassionate thinking

I hope

in the vindication of incorporeal bodies ...

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA:She was born in Athens. She studied Filology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she obtained her BA,MA in Pedagogy,  Ph.D in Comparative Pedagogy and a postdoctoral research certificate . She obtained a certification in the Braille language. Today she works as a teacher in the secondary education. She took part in conferences and published articles in the Greek and international scientific journals, in conference papers and chapters books. She was awarded for her participation in poetry and literary contests in Greece and abroad. Her poems have been translated into Italian, English, Spanish, Albanian , Romanian and Bangla,Her first poetic collection entitled Dream of Oasis (Thessaloniki, 2014), was translated and published in Italy in 2017 (won the second prize in an international competition in Milan). Her first Fairy tale entitled Geometrini was published in 2016 , her second with the title  The Kingdom of Joy 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,  Cor ad Cor Loquitur , A Second Life , Α trip to the country of “the meeting” , Let there be light.  She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers and at the Association of Greek Writers.