What Color Is Your Smile?
Montreux Switzerland Street Art
Are there colors in someone’s smile?
red (rouge) or pink (rose)
green (vert) or Yellow (jaune)
blue (bleu) and orange (orange)
purple (violet) or white (blanc)
Do dimples or crinkles, lips curved or parted, increase or fade its color?
Can a wink over the smile change its color; do teeth peeking out brighten or dilute the color?
consider a gaping hole of teeth and tongue shown in a burst of happiness
Do darker shades come from flirtatious smiles?
Genuine, happy, unposed smiles seem rosier than
set smiles with a tilted head, posed for the lens;
polite smiles are pale, icier, with no ripples of light, just straight beams
What color is your smile? (or is it a grin?) [….what color is a grin?]
A/N: I took this photo in Switzerland and found it interesting. It then brought to mind the colors of smiles. Are there colors? Why did the artist put this on a city street? You may like the travelogue on Italy/Sicily at the bottom of this post.
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Well deserved Top Story!🤩An intriguing poem.🤗I especially like and agree with: “Genuine, happy, unposed smiles seem rosier than set smiles with a tilted head, posed for the lens; polite smiles are pale, icier, with no ripples of light, just straight beams”🥹
Beautiful work and accompanying street art! Congratulations, Andrea, on your top story! 🥳
I love the street art and where you took me as a reader: a rainbow of words. Loved it! And congratulations on the leaderboard!
Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
So many good questions inspired by street art, Andi! And congrats on Top Story!
This was such a gorgeous and unique concept!! I loved reading it! Such good word choice too ;)
Lovely thought 🥰
Great picture and perfect words to go with it
Beautiful
Beautifully written, congratulations on Top Story xx
This is a nice street art. Even better it inspired you to write this beautiful piece. The artist was perhaps thinking about putting some smiles out in the city for everyone to see and smile back. There’s not much going on in the world, and Europe in particular, that is worth smiling for. So in my view, the artist wanted to add what is missing.
Those natural smiles with a "rosy" hue are the warmest backdrop in interpersonal connections
I love that the artwork inspired this thoughtful piece :) Now I'm thinking about which colors I find related to which emotions. Glad to see a new poem from you.
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
I love the way you explored emotion through color. Congratulations on the Top Story!
I loved this! This was so creative and was just such a happy poem. Really great!
The color of my smile would be something sedated not sure which one though. Your poem is quite the thinkable one. Good job.
Mine is many faceted...changes with the mood and tone. Happy be the birthday...maybe belated but still close. Pic is really uplifting,
I think mine's brown--an understated soul who says it loud beneath!
Very nice, Andrea. I have never thought about colours and smiles, but now that I do, it is nice combination.
I guess my smile would be red hehehe. Loved your poem and photo!
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I love the concept that smiles have colours! Great poem!
Love love love this poem. Especially the lines: “Can a wink over the smile change its color; do teeth peeking out brighten or dilute the color?”
I never looked at a smile like that. I usually look immediately from the lips to the eyes to see of the smile has reached them.