Diamante Poem

Last week we had to create a poem. The poem we made is called "Diamante". Diamante poem is a poem that has 7 lines and it is shaped as a diamond. In line 1 we had put the starting subject. In line 2 had to put 2 words describing line 1. In line 3 we had to put 3 doing words (ing). In line 4 a short phrase about line 1 and 7. In line 5 we had to put 3 doing words about line 7. In line 6 we had to put 2 describing words about line 7. In line 7 we had to put the ending subject .We had to create the poem about a book. The book was called "The Taniwha of the Rakaia gorge". We had to thing about 2 things from the story and we had to write the poem about them. Here is my poem.