SOFIA SKLEIDA

Omen

We became simple frames of time
when the endless hours were stabbing us
and the cold sunsets pierced our bodies.
Now we look like immovable ornaments
in our prominent places
that share liquid dust.
You refuse the rain
it also dried up.
You say you can't stand the wind
the nature that fights you
the world that competes with your glory
your selfishness.
Surpassed you, betrayed you…

Truly Risen

These hours hurt me,
these moments.
The patient is defenseless in the chamber.
You struggle to give him discharge without diagnosis, cure
and destination.
Christ is Risen!

Ode

Our dreams have been shattered.
They could not stand to suffer on a lonely canvas.
They crossed the land border
to paint the youth of the world
with indelible intellectual touches
The borders inaccessible, unattended.
The common zone in protest.
The single market grinning in our demands.

SOFIA SKLEIDA was born in Athens. She studied Philology 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. 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.