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Choucoune (Haitian Creole: Choukoun) is an 1883 poem by Haitian poet Oswald Durand. Its words are in Haitian Creole and became the lyrics to the song Choucoune later rewritten in English as Yellow Bird 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—nicknamed Choucoune—who ran a restaurant in Cap-Haïtien. She met Durand and the two had a romantic liaison.