Sofia Skleida




Summer Glories

I am standing in the depth of my memories
I follow their footprints step by step
in the hot summer sand
in the sacred doors of the soul
on the vertical axis of the eternity
The celestial dome reflects
the harmony of the universe
and the submarine effervescence is extinguished
from the creative coexistence
of the abyss
Finally summer!
Hearts are rejoicing...
Wise words are waiting
the oestrus of the moment
To write their story
And the sunsets of the sun
eagerly plow the plains of love ...

Poem awarded at the Italian Poetry Competition
"SOTTO IL CIELO DI LUGLIO 2014" entitled "GLORIFICAZIONI
ESTIVE ", 19 July  2014, ANZIO, Italy.









Hours Of Silence

I have heard your steps in the silence
I sank myself into my lonely thoughts
Remembering ...
And suddenly again, the same light
at the same time
as instruments sounded behind me
at the same rhythms
I felt your aura
The soul flew like the transiting birds
filling in ecstasy, emotion…








Vastness

I open my wings to cover the sky
To feel free
To get up high
To touch the universe with the thumb
and to feel his warmth, his passion,
Give me a perspective
Under the bright sunlight
He greets me and smiles
responding to  my eternal embarrassment
We combine our essence
Our dreams
and our souls are weakening
by the weight of the materiality
The full moon thoughtful
gives new light ...

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). He 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 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, 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". 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 two books titled 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. 





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