Poet Profile

D Rudd-Mitchell (David Rudd-Mitchell)

David Rudd-Mitchell is an occasional poet and writer; his work has appeared in magazines including Allegro Poetry Magazine, The Asahi Shimbun (Asahi Haikuist Network), BLER, dadakuku, The Projectionists Playground, Simply Haiku, 575 and the zen space. His work also appeared in chapbooks including The Black Light Engine Room’s Co-Incidental 05 and anthologies including Poems From a Green and Blue Planet edited by Sabrina Mahfouz.

Books Published:

Work Anthologised: Diversifly: Poetry and Art on Britain's Urban Birds, edited by Nadia Kingsley, Fair Acre Press (2018); Haiku 2025, edited by Scott Metz & Lee Gurga, Modern Haiku Press (2025).

Sorrow,  
the fly I could not kill  
―dead in my drink.

Summer,
the once meek kitten
teases a bee.

Night storm,  
tomorrow the grass white  
―with blossom.

white flowers.
along the forest’s long path
a scent of garlic

Last night
The clouds stayed by the mountain’s side.
This morning they are gone.

flat cleared, keys returned.
Only stone frogs left
―to stare at the mountain.

Credits:

“Sorrow”; “Summer”; “Night storm” – Simply Haiku , Summer 2005, vol 3 no 2; white flowers – Poetry Pea season 2, Episode 18: Flowers, September 2019; “Last night”; “flat cleared” – the zen space, Winter 2017 Showcase.