The event I chose for my poem is the hydraulic system that the Sinu culture created. The inland 

delta formed by the San Jorge river, the Cauca river, the Magdalena river and the Nechi river, frequently 

flooded during the rainy season in the mountains from April to November causing a lot of problems to the 

Sinu culture. This poem is told from the perspective of a resident that lived there. I chose to tell it from 

this perspective because I wanted to show how the residents felt about this problem and how did they 

solve them. This event is important to Colombian history because it helped control the floods and this 

system is used in the present. For this poem the poetic form that I used was terza rima.  

 

"Solution for a big issue by Sinu Culture"

The clouds paint the blue sky 

The months from April to November had finally arrived 

The rivers increase as time flies by.

The water stream passes through all the place around 

Dressing all the crops with mud 

Killing every single plant above the ground.

It was a flood. 

Our economy fell, we were on top and suddenly drop into the hole

The houses were completely destroyed like a soldier in war covered in blood.

With no place to go and everything gone, 

We created a way of living without the deluge;

We dug 3-meter-deep canals with tools, that we have done.

The water passing through them as delicately as a person walking quietly on tiptoes

The canals were deep and huge 

Leaving the crops and houses without damage.