Short Fine Line Poems

Short Fine Line Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Fine Line by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Fine Line by length and keyword.


Tomato Tomatto

The fine line
between
charisma
and narcissism
Defines the border
separating
 magic
— from farce

(Dreamsleep: October, 2025)


Oops, I Did It Again

Fine line between right and wrong
I would swear he was Mr Right
But alas, just another awful song
He was so uptight and not too bright
© John Pen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member walking a fine line

we've built this house of cards
now that could tumble any moment
should you unilaterally decide
to change the game



AP: 1st place 2025

Fine Line

I-t's
A-nother
N-ew

F-ine
L-ine
O-nce
R-hyme
E-xpresses
S-ublimity

Topic: Birthday of Ian Flores (September 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

MAD

Mentally insane person or a wily wise sage?
Alternating between tackling worldly or mystical matters
Diminishing the fine line between madness and genius.
Form: Acrostic


Premium Member A Brilliant Genius

A genius
Glory to be found
Sweet, smart one
Up above
However, great as it seems
Insanity looms

Entrant into Nancy Jones’ “Fine Line” contest

Form: Shadorma...3/5/3/3/7/5
Form: Shadorma

Monetary Expansion

Single life
Unto transaction 
Shredded Wheat
Fine-line
Love is hard, sticky like glue
Money grows, money saves
Ellis Dauwalt
Living until 35
Untie my knots, specialist, heave-ho!
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Sickies All Around

Sickies all around but I'm feeling fine All my life I've walked a very fine line This dude's very lucky Don't often feel yucky Get to bed with my girlfriend by nine
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Sickies All Around

Sickies all around me but I'm feeling fine All my life I walked this very fine line This dude's very lucky Don't often feel yucky Get to bed with my sweetie usually by nine
Form: Limerick

Finish Line

The line wasn't part of the plan
We walked a fine line
Our hustle was different each time
Our life couldn't compare 
Which we weren't aware
But my plan didn't make it
To your finish line.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Sickies All Around

Sickies all around me but I'm feeling fine All my life I walked this very fine line This dude's very lucky Don't often feel yucky Get to bed with my girlfriend usually by nine
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Break My Dinghy

I walk a fine line with this limerick thingy So easy to fall off and break my dinghy Intentions are good I'd be good if I could Gonna try real hard if another chance you gimmie
Form: Limerick

Premium Member This Grand Design

Every day we all walk a very fine line Tween happy and sad, tween mediocrity and sublime Today's a sublime one It's a bright shiny sun Looking down on us mortals, this grand design
Form: Limerick

Premium Member A Fine Line

Betwixt
art and craft-
sweetness & light,
division foregone by
design


Inspired by Arts & Crafts credo
'beautiful but useful' Sussex chair by DG Rossetti

http://www.puritanvalues.co.uk/chairs7.htm
Form: Cinqku

Charlotte Gets Tough With Miss Muffet

Said contrary and crabby Miss Muffet
“Hey eight-legs! Kiss my bare Tuffet!” 
From above and beyond, Charlotte dropped a fine line
And bit the old bag where the sun doesn’t shine…

For Andrea’s clerihew contest
Form: Clerihew

Lines

So many lines,
Some you cross,
Some you stay behind.

What’s yours is yours,
What’s mine is mine.
Lines get blurred,
Like lines between.

A line between,
I’m staddling.
A fine line,
I’ve crossed so many times.
© Joe Fisher  Create an image from this poem.

Inside Constraint

i stand 
alone
trying to
walk away
from what 
is known
and in the
midst
of my walk
away
i step past
the fine line
that once 
shone
so i walk
away
from constraint
with light eyes
that look
into the
unknown

Fine Line of Rhyme

F-ine
L-ine
O-f
R-hyme
E-mploys
N-atural
C-heer
E-xpressing

M-irthful
E-motion's
R-eal
C-omfort
U-nder
R-ighteousness
I-t
O-ozes

Topic: Birthday of Florence Mercurio (January 04)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

A Fine Line

I'm walking a fine line,
somewhere between dead and alive,
I'm contently loosing balance,
tripping over my own two feet.
I'm scratched, scared, and bruised.
Will I make it out alive?
Or will I die,
on this destructive path of mine?
© Cat Bonner  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member The Hand of Nature

Be
careful
setting off
my wild magic,
it lacks a center;
The storm flails everywhere,
emotions like a whirlpool;
Passion is the dark and the light,
there's a fine line to keep the balance;
Wielding the Craft I'm the hand of nature.
Form: Etheree

Desperate Howl

Arbituary, i walk the fine line
Non-habituary, isn't mine to define
I plead guilty of the filth
Feeling filthy of the guilt

I am the wolf that turns his back
Too shameful to be part of the pack
I howl when you bite
Whining "foul and unright"
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member May Afternoon

a little sip of wine
out on the balcony
a balmy spring breeze
stirs lilac blooms
diffusing perfume free

enraptured in a novel
through space and time
fine line between
reality and fantasy



AP: Honorable Mention 2020, Front Page Pick 2020

Fine Line of Regards

M-use
A-bout
R-ighteous
I-dea
E-mploys

A-crostic
N-ote
N-icely
D-enoting
R-emarkable
E-xpression
A-s

F-ine
L-ine
O-f
R-egards
E-ndorses
S-weetness

Topic: Birthday of Marie Anndrea I. Flores (June 20) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Form: Acrostic

There Is

There is music to every action,
And rythm in every step;
A color to every thought
And a fine line between 
Every choice and possibility.

There is something good in each
Mistake; there is some mistake
In every day; There is 
A fork in the road 
On every path, and 

A mission statement in every life.
Form: Verse

Writing

— Untitled —

Defining, refining, and timing the rhyming
And hours of thought to perfect the fine line-ing

Clerical, lyrical, sometimes, a miracle
To get a line right could feel a bit spiritual 

Hoping, not doping, and a lot oh “oh nope-ing!”
But when you are through, there will be no more moping 

~J.D. Cromwell
Form:

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