Street artist and poet Angry Dan has been painting colourful murals with limericks on them since last summer when I discovered "More drama than a banana" on a wall on Great Eastern Street. Angry Dan's murals are around Shoreditch (and also Camden), and I've been capturing them when I have seen them. Angry Dan is from London and started to draw his poems on the walls last year and has been enjoying it and increasing his profile. Below are some of the pieces that I have photographed from him.
"A cantankerous man from Carlisle sold loquorice lace by the mile; I said 'that's eccentric; why don't you go metric?' He said 'kilometres ain't worth my while.'"
"The limerick form so it's reckoned, has a first line that rhymes with the second. On the fourth and the third, something different is heard while the fifth returns to the beckoned."
"When trying to write from the heart, it's hard to know where to start. More easy, I find to write from my mind and trust that my feelings impact."
"The bumbling figure of eight was stumbling home rather late; he tripped in hi stride and fell on his side, succumed to his infinite fate."
"Imagine in your mind's eye the pool is pale blue sky; your beautiful limbs are magnificent wings and thus to swim is to fly."
"I met an old codger named Fred with a single grey hair on his head and said 'Just your luck, that why don't you pluck that?' He said 'f*** that, I'll dye it instead.'"
The poems get people to stop to read them, and most of them bring a smile to the face.
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