Choucoune (poem)

"Choucoune" (Haitian Creole: Choukoun) is an 1883 poem by Haitian Oswald Durand. Its words are in Haitian Creole and are the lyrics to the song "Choucoune" which was later rewritten in English as "Yellow Bird", the title based on the words "ti zwazo" (French: petit oiseau; little bird) from the Durand poem.

Durand's inspiration for the poem was a "marabou" woman named Marie Noel Belizaire who was nicknamed Choucoune; she was running a restaurant in Cap-Haïtien when her path crossed with Durand's with a resultant romantic liaison. In the poem Choucoune desserts the poet for a Frenchman's favors; reportedly the real Choucoune and Durand parted because of the poet's serial philandering. Marie Noel Belizaire is said to have died in her seventy-first year in 1924 having spent the last portion of her life in her native village of La-Plaine-du-Nord as a beggarwoman who was widely recognized as the subject of Durand's poem.[1]

References

• See the Original Creole Poem and a Short History at Webster University's Haiti-archive. Accessed 27 April 2009.

• Louis J. Auguste. "The Story of Choucoune -- Stolen Legacy: The Ordeal of Choucoune" at Haiti-aujourd'hui.org. Accessed 20 February 2007.

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