SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

 Profughi

 

Trembling bodies roam everywhere…

Carry sadness, tragedy

in a battle unequal to death

In underwater, dark wagons that smell

of abandonment and despair

You want to talk, shout, run to hide

From whom, from what, you do not know

Breaths cut short  like the raging wind

Beg for life in an unholy, cold world

Innocent eyes, pure,

become witnesses of soulless moments

that were extinguished in the irrational horror

of a war or an international outcry

Contradictory world

participating in the theater of the absurd

Tomorrow lurks in us

promising what?

 

*Refugees

 

Stoicism

 

I look down the road

Everything is confused

The thought takes me away

observes, listens

To no avail...

The mind receives complaints for the violation

of the glass and aerial architectural world

I object, following the legal procedures

A sparrow sits on the windowsill of memory

Embarrassment is now hidden

Ethic just surprising ...

 

Erotic Attraction

 

Your eyes are fireflies in the vast Aegean

your lips a sweet breeze in the body

your hands caress the youth of the soul

your aura confuse my universe…

 

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.