Haiku: bring your child to work day

This week the topic was "bring your child to work day" and the winning haiku is by one of our most prolific poets, David Dayson.

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next day at school -

show and tell a memory

stick from the office

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"The third line is often the "pay-off" in haiku, with a shift to reveal the unexpected that is somehow more obvious than the expected. The poet here plays us, and we, childlike in our trust and innocence, are grateful," says judge Jim Kacian, founder of the Haiku Foundation.

Sarah Leavesley is runner up:

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Typing nonsense, lost

pens, spinning on chairs -

that's just my boss!

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Next topic: "the office retreat". Email [email protected]. T&Cs at www.ft.com/haiku

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