SOFIA SKLEIDA

 

 

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 ...

Collection of poems , Μelismos, Eptalofos, Athens 2018

 

Destiny

 

The heart does not put strongholds

Invincible castles

Κnows no conqueror's, righteous,

unjust, rebels, intriguers, plotters

Only noble knights

He imagines them on horseback in love

Innocent and pure

who will come to crown her

with the gifts of love,

compassion and charity

To offer divine myrrh

and frankincense

And so pure as will be,

to distance from her weaknesses,

passions and mistakes and

communicate

love and forgiveness ...

Collection of poems , Dal Mediterraneo, Gnasso Editore, Italy 2019

 

Ηοpe

 

Pilgrimage the loneliness

Prayer is the sorrow.

And you are struggling …

Contracting, dilating

And again, from the beginning.

You are dissolving, crashing

Again solid

And the "Ode to joy" *

Is hanging over the remnants of the world!

 

* The "Ode to joy"

was written in 1785 by the German Friedrich Schiller and was recorded by Ludwig Van Beethoven in 1824. In 1972 was adopted as an anthem by the European Council.

 

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, A rustle of silence ,Lyrical verses of paintings, Eutychis and Evgenis are dreaming.  She is Vice President of the Zakynthian Cultural Institute, Member of the judging committee for new members of the Association of Greek Writers, a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers and at the Association of Greek Writers.