I'm kinda thick when it comes to poetry. Prose is definitely my favorite form. But do you guys remember this poem called "The Highway Man" ? I think it was in sixth grade Gulmohar or maybe Joy in Reading textbooks in Nepal. The poem is so simple, and yet it made quite an impression on my young mind back then. The poem is about an innkeeper's daughter who stands by the window, waiting for her lover while braiding her hair with a red "love knot." Her lover is a petty thief on the highway, who comes trotting on a horse every night to see her. Hence, the poem is titled "The Highwayman." One day, a gang of robbers break into the inn and kill the highway man and the innkeeper's daughter. But their love did not die with them. The poem ends by describing how the locals can still hear the trot of the horse on the cobblestones of the inn and out of nowhere a maiden with a red love knot on her hair appears on the window of the inn.