SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA

Borders

The pearls of the Aegean Sea are blue.

White birds carve heavenly markers.

They accompany the solitude of the travellers

when they depart from the load of the day

and delude their grief in the dark.

Then they remember the glory of their city

on festive Sundays,

the simplicity of the emotions.

They reminisce crying

and they nostalgic the eternal hymns

of the timeless past.

No More…

Bowed passenger

the gears of the machine

were immobilized

the cells of our mind were anchored.

Seize the opportunity

with courage and boldness

to soften the shame of the nation.

Our children are timorous

the leaders are allies in negotiations

with those who are undermining

tradition and eternal values.

Hours countdown.

City Of Nations

The morning star does not rise for a long time

The earthly paradise does not fit us anymore.

It was filled with false prophets

of blank messages

and anti-historical truths.

The arrows in our quiver are many,

amulets that release passionless outbreaks.

Hollow contradictions in the city of the nations!

SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA was born in Athens. She is graduate of the Faculty of Filology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.  She has a MA in Pedagogy , a PhD in Comparative Pedagogy and she is also a postdoctoral candidate (Faculty of Theology, University of Athens). She has attended a number of training courses in special education and teaching, and especially in the teaching of literarure. He has also been trained and certified in the Braille by the Center for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind. Her scientific interests involve Teaching, School Psychology, Special Education, Ancient and New Greek Literature. She has worked as a translator in the Greek Embassy in Italy. In the Greek Community of Rome and in other institutions she taught the Greek language in adults as a foreign language. She taught also the Italian language in private institutions and the Greek language in the Italian School of Athens the last years. She has taught the lesson of Judicial Psychology-Psychiatry in the Faculty of Police Officers. She publishes articles in the Greek and international scientific journals, in conference papers and chapters books. She has been awarded for her participation in poetry and literary competitions in Greece and abroad. She has been elected and distinguished as ambassadress of Culture for Greece by the International and Cultural Organization Universum Academy Switzerland (May 2016- December 2018, Lugano, Switzerland). She is a member of the International Literary Organization Poets of the World, member of the International Literature Competition Universum, member of the Jury at the annual Literature Contest for the poetry and short story of the Cultural Association “Oikopolis” and also a member of the jury of the 1st Panhellenic Literary Competition of Prose,  "Kefalos" and also a member of the cultural and social organization named “Amphictyony of Ellenism” based in Thessaloniki. She published her first collection of pοetry (Thessaloniki, 2014) entitled Dream of Oasis, which has been translated and published in Italy in 2017 (won the second prize in a international competition in Milan). A poem of the same collection became a song.  Her first Fairy tale entitled Geometrini published in 2016 and her second fairy tale entitled The Kingdom of Joy was published in 2018.Recently were published her second and third collection of poetry entitled Neologisms and Melismos respectively. She is currently publishing four books titled Ιn the Mediterranean, Poetic Reflections, Cappadocian theological references in handwritten verses and The teaching of classical languages in the Italian secondary education.She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers.