SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA

In The Greek Dimension

In the sea

in the sky building

colours are spread everywhere

Where are present

all the messmate

and  Greek memories

are heard

from time to time

when from our drunkenness

opens the curtain

in the footsteps of the restless and erotic Ulysses

we drink nectar Divine

we wet our bodies ...

Morning Chatter

I remember some glories thinking backwards

what I did in time.

Beautiful love, flowers, hugs

 then matched with the sound, the lights

moments were beautiful

drinking bitter wine.

But life went on.

I don’t like the mornings when they do not have sunrise

to take light from the glory.

My Angels

I want to get lost in your arms,

to wander in the vast and virgin paths of your heart,

to sink into the wave of your undying soul,

to be delighted by your being,

to take your breath ...

I look enchanted

and I try

to keep you,

an inexhaustible picture

to keep it out of time

the one who relentlessly changes everything

I know I can not keep you for long

to have you a prayer

to nest a life

in the most unique and hidden yours

but I would like to freeze the moment

an entire life,

like a miracle!

Dedicated to my children Stephanos and Alexis

Collection of poems  , Dreams of Oasis (Amphictyon of Hellenism, Department of  Literature, Thessaloniki, 2014 . The collection was also published in Italy under the title  Oasi dei Sogni, Il mondo dello scrittore, 2017)

SOFIA SKLEIDA

SOFIA SKLEIDA was born in Athens. She is graduate of Faculty of Letters, 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). 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 to other institutions for Greek language, where she taught the Greek language in adults as a foreign language. 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 Cultural Organization Universum Academy Switzerland (International University of Peace ,May 2016, Lugano, Switzerland). She is a judge member of  the International Literature Contest. She published her first collection of pοetry (Amphictyon of Hellenism, Department of Literature, Thessaloniki, 2014) entitled Dream of Oasis, which has been translated and published in Italy in 2017 and won the second prize at the international competition in Milan. A poem of the same collection became a song. Her first Fairy tale entitled Geometroulides published in 2016. Recently were published her second and third collection of poetry entitled Neologisms and Melismos. She is a regular member at the Panhellenic Union of Writers.