"Husband/father/army veteran/x-roughneck (as on oil rigs)/x-hospice nurse/editor of Bear Creek Haiku (20+ years/112+ issues).  Resplendent homes of poems include Lilliput Review, Shemom (ed Peggy Dugan French), Yellow Mama (ed Cindy Crosmus), Shamrock (Irish Haiku Society), Lalitamba (lovely), Lynx, Kind Of A Hurricane (ed Amy Huffman), The Montucky Review, and ... Eye on Life Online Magazine.  Also, various anthologies/some awards (all deeply embraced), poetry ensembles include Concentric Penumbra’s of the Heart, Tumbleweeds Still Tumbling, and, Witchety Snake Dreaming - beloved wife/poet Judith Partin-Nielsen, and bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)." 

Read Ayaz' poetry--

December 2015:

• Now and Then

• Untitled I

• Untitled II

Other Poems by Ayaz Daryl Nielsen: 

• Older Sister

• Before Dawn

• Four Untitled Poems

• A Memory

• Two Untitled Poems

• Seven (sort of) Haiku

• Bulldog Puppies

• Pothole and roadblock

• Autumns

• Aunt Enid

• In-between

• gladness

• cat fed

• Three Poems

• Untitled

• Blackbird