SOFIA SKLEIDA

Naughtily Thrown

 

You God,

sculpted your work

With an anvil and a hammer

To make us strong, to give us a solid thought

and to cover the nakedness of our soul

With your innocent spiritual garment

But ignorant of your words and deeds

we have moved away from the original,

the first cause that leads

and contributes to the "exaltation of the soul"

and transforms into "Anima mundi" ,

that unites us, concerns us, motivates us

Slippery arguments in a dumb homeland ...

 

Holy Lamentation- PIETA

 

The heavy and embarrassed look

imprisons the sadness of the moment

The mourning of life

The Holy Virginity captivates and invites

The inanimate Divine Body completely surrendered

looks eternally youthful

perpetually moving

The pain of the soul overflows

and the Heavenly Kingdom receives

the only truth

crowning with glory our passions and fears…

 

Dual Existence

 

Lord of exhortations

Of hope

Of persuasions

Of wishes

Lord of the Powers

Of universal worldviews

 

As human nature

He taught our lives emotionally

Light up our inaccessible path

changed our short-sighted look

 

As a Godman

Scatter our malicious thoughts,

The mental humiliation

of our perishable texture

Be our fair judge

Bless us with Your great compassion…

 

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.