The Colors Of A Drought
The color of a drought is brown:
The green in grass is gone.
And cracks upon the dusty earth
Open their mouths and yawn.
The creeks and streams are narrower,
With some completely dry.
And Robin sings a thirsty song,
And Bambi gives a sigh.
The color of a drought is blue;
The sky has lost its white.
The clouds are few and far between
Like left is far from right.
And day by day, the sky is blue
Like water used to be
When rivers ran like swift feet fly
And gurgled happily.
The brown and blue of drought can paint
A drabness in the land,
And turn the joy of man and child
To blues as dry as sand.
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link to other drought poems:
https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/the-drought-poems-by-dennis-lange-2/
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photo by Kevin Tuck at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/naGDvk0/Parched+ground
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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2014.
The Bard on the Hill 
I can verify the absolute truth of your poem as I have lived through it several times in several places. But then eventually, God sends the rain and wonder of wonders, land blooms again. Isn’t it wonderful?
Yes, we’ve had a drought ongoing for several years now. Two winters ago, we had good rain and the wildflowers were wonderful, the best I’ve ever seen. We went back to drought fairly quickly and are still in the midst of it.
And we are back in drought also. I’m not farming now but it is still depressing.
😦 California is experiencing an “exceptional drought” but I don’t know that that is worse than what we’re having. It’s been going on about 5 years now, I think, we one period of about 6 months where we got adequate rain for vegetation and one winter where we got good rains. But neither period helped much to replenish streams, the Edwards Aquifer, and other underground water. One nearby lake, maybe 40 miles away, is 88 feet below normal.