SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

Calmness

 

I leave in a cloud of air and smoke

Fog and delusion

I leave calmly

Experiences flicker in the dim light

I leave peacefully

Obedient to the sacred goal of eternal life

of the infinity,

the endless celestial glory

and greatness

The eyes see clearly

They don’t flicker anymore

I dance

and the heart rejoices

the pain is cured

 the calamities are forgotten

 I balance on the lifeless body

My thoughts are with you

Very close to you

Because I am close to you, and I will be

very close

We coexist in space-time

alongside

I just crossed to the opposite sidewalk…

 

Mortality

 

The words are blunted, they lose their meaning

The cosmidoid are broken down

and the values are self-abolished

I meet your gaze at the depth of the silence

He nods to me by rolling silently a tear

Are we dead, do you feel it?

The sounds are looking for syllables

The bodies are epidermically tied in the dark

and the light of the dawn is slow to come

I invite you on our fleeting journey!

 

Bleed

 

Memories

Underground currents that carry false slogans on stone walls

Impressions

Mortal suns struggling to fool the west

Fleeting expressionless faces thirsting for redemption

Condemned petitions of eternal purification

in the name of a disarmingly tragic truth

Revivals

Trojan horses that change historical events cheering the divine inspiration

Recommendations

Humility

Alms

Greatness of soul

Clear look

Tender mind ...

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

SOFIA SKLEIDA 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, Sentidos Spirituales.  She is Vice President of the Zakynthian Cultural Institute, a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers and at the Association of Greek Writers.