DAILY PHOTO: Tbilisi Scene from Queen Darejani Palace

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A photograph taken in Tbilisi, Georgia with Metekhi Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the fore (left) and Narikala Fortress in the background (probably from Queen Darejani Palace.)

DAILY PHOTO: The Crescent, Baku

A photograph of The Crescent Residences, an architecturally interesting building on Baku's Caspian shoreline.

Armenia [Common Meter]

Photograph taken in Northern Armenia on a drive to Georgia.
I once sped through an ancient land
that blurred of gray and green.
Its pastures had been neatly grazed
by some livestock, unseen.

Its mountains rugged, under clouds
whose drift could not be seen.
It felt like a long-lost painting
or unremembered dream.

DAILY PHOTO: Distant Mountains

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Photograph taken in northern Armenia. Purple flowers in the fore, mountains in the distant background, and partly cloudy skies.

ARMENIA LIMERICK

There was an artist from Armenia
Who worked in many a media.
Work iconoclastic…
Or pornographic;
Often it started straitlaced but got seedy-ya.

GEORGIA LIMERICK

There was a famed Georgian vintner
who thought about wines all winter –
as he thought, he drank,
and -- let us be frank –
he became less vintner than drinker.

AZERBAIJAN LIMERICK

There was a young man from Azerbaijan
who needed something to prop his feet on.
Thoughts of Ottoman rule,
He'd learned of in school,
made resting his feet on an Ottoman right on!

DAILY PHOTO: History Museum of Armenia

DAILY PHOTO: Baku Highrises

DAILY PHOTO: Qiz Qalasi