Descriptive Dinosaur Writing

At the moment in class we have been working on descriptive writing. We looked at pictures to help us have ideas to start from.    

Here is the writing that I did 

THE LIVING STATUE

As I stood staring in terror, the deadly
black slit seemed to swallow me up.
The weight of the 15 ton giant, thumped
into the dusty sand, like a runaway steam
roller. And now the smell of bloody meat
and bones slithered up my nostrils and slid down my spinal cord.  

I knew I should be running for my life but
its ātaahua (beauty) held me rigid.   

It looks like someone has painted a
masterpiece on a scaly moss kakariki
(green) canvas and then spray painted
highlights on parts of it.  The fiery yellow
eyelids look like a warm summer sunset
on a clear kengo (night). Its beauty is
shattered by a mighty belch that sounds
like a tīhara (diesel) truck backfiring.
He ran as fast as a golf cart that had been
biffed of a cliff.          

I say to myself, “Damn, I didn’t think my
day could get any worse!”