Best Open Letter Poems

Open Letter to Thomas Jefferson

You sir, destination unknown, I dare
To address. A son of worthy causes  
For land vast in majesty and vast as
Vast can be in matters of liberty;
With ideals so prim and suffused with 
Philosophical forethought derived from 
Your bumper harvest of...

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I’m sitting at my desk typing on my computer. 
My head is a satellite broadcasting a disrupted signal. 
I can’t get a clear picture of what I want to write. 
The channel keeps changing as I switch between memories and then it happens. 

A message...

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Atheists open letter to God

Dear God

I don't know how to begin...let's see
how are you today? (no he doesn't exist...oh yeah)

I am writing you today...to clarify a few things!

First of all, the fact that I am writing you this letter,
does not in any way shape or...

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An open letter to new legislators,
new chief executive officers,
new judges,
and all new healthy climate parents and other advocates.

When you were in the process of securing this new position in your life,
and, hopefully, the lives of your extended family,
you probably were expected to speak fluently
about how...

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  All the days of my life, nobody helped me with money except myself and limited, recognized number of family members.  I never asked any favor from anybody, but I'm very grateful to God for having very few supportive and loving family members...

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Dear trafficker,I am on the run
With face emitting fear
Worn in clothe surged into rag
By the scissors of rape
linen scars
With the screech from angry nails;
narrow escape.

Do not ask why I run
Like a prey dodging the hunters’ gun
from thick darkness I run, in search of sun

I am...

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You see me,
But in a while
You will not;
I become one
With the wind and the rain.

We touch,
Relish the warmth and passion,
But when the clasp breaks,
I reside in the quiet
Of your heart.

On your bad days,
I am your friend;
On good days,
We laugh and play
As before, but here's a...

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The key, may it be
        One that lets us see
       The soul and it’s light
          For it is only right

   ...

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To my future lover, 

Why me? I feel that I don't deserve you, that there are way more attractive, smart, and funny individuals out there--fit to match the mold of your heart. I can't even act properly when I'm around you. Every time you call...

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(Part 4 of 5)
When do the children come home from school? 
Oh that’s a spot of luck I have a shopping trip with the girls planned
That I want to get under my belt
Before half-term when we holiday in the Seychelles  
When the kids are...

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So, XYZ Company, after my five years of servitude and loyalty
you close the doors, you dissolve the department
with less than a day's notice, because, hey, that's all we deserve-
And it was no accident you announced right before Memorial Day
So you don't have to give us...

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I've held some stuff inside for too long but this is my open letter 
I could be okay by myself, but I'd rather us be broken together
I want to mend the pieces of your heart that you think can't be fixed
I'll do everything I can...

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An Open Letter of Warning
So many ills are here in this world 
Open the Facebook
On the thousands of pages 
There is only blood 
From the rapes and murders 
From wars and occupations 
This earth has been turned into red from green 
Nearly every one is...

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(Part 5 of 5)

And no more your kids will get a chance above mine 
Because at my work I’ve never even met the bosses

You see we were able to hold our own before 
And keep the wolves from the door
I could even see a future....for...

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Dear Darkness

You are trapped inside of me

And I am sorry.

I do not know how it happened.

.

Were you conceived of break-up?

Bullies?

Bastardization?

Backs bent over rocks?

Or did I eat you in the womb

Helpess,

Lifeless

Whole?

.

Dear Darkness

Please stop scratching at my insides

Tugging at my arteries

Clawing at my ovaries,

I do not know...

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