The Velvety Poetry is a poetic form intended to make an apology originally devised by the elf Gica Dunesdive. The rules of the form are applied by poets to produce individual poems which can be recited. The poem is a single couplet. Use of ambiguity and metaphor is characteristic of the form. Each line has ten syllables. The second line of the couplet reverses the word order of the first line. The first line is reflective and concerns the past. The second line is a narrative and concerns the future.