I've received several inquiries as to why I haven't posted any of my fan poetry at this site. The answer is that I don't really know why. So I'm posting just a few of my old favorites here, while I wait for my muse to get back to work. Comments are always welcome, as are new fanfic friends.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from "Starsky and Hutch." I do occasionally borrow them, but never with fraudulent intent or with an eye to monetary gain.

Just how did a wealthy, blond country boy from Minnesota end up as a Bay City, CA, detective? Here's one answer – and it rhymes!

Son of the Sea

By e-pony

A thousand miles and more
To either shore,
Yet still the ocean's roar
Called to me.
Son of the north,
But I heard the sea.

Born in the land of ten thousand lakes,
Where Superior's icy water breaks
In crested waves upon the sand,
I was pulled by a stronger tide --
The salt-sea swell of the ocean side --
And the lure of a distant land.

A thousand miles and more
To either shore,
Yet still the ocean's roar
Called to me.
Son of the north,
But I felt the sea.

As I boy, I sailed in sheltered bays,
Haunted the wharves and shipping quays,
And steered my dreams by a northern star.
But by twenty, I could find no rest.
My inner compass pointed west,
To a place unknown and far.

A thousand miles and more
To either shore,
Yet still the ocean's roar
Called to me.
Son of the north,
But I knew the sea.

At twenty-one, grown strong and tall,
I answered that seductive siren's call --
And left the house that never felt a home.
But the passing miles could not quell
The bitterness of a cold farewell
Nor my Viking urge to roam.

A thousand miles and more
To either shore,
Yet still the ocean's roar
Called to me.
Son of the north,
But I chose the sea.

In California, my heart knew rest,
And the surcease of my inner quest,
At my long-sought journey's end.
For I found home port in the oddest place,
In the sea-deep eyes of a stranger's face --
My safe harbor in a friend.

A thousand miles and more
To either shore,
Yet still the ocean's roar
Called to me.
Son of the north,
But I found the sea.