In her poem Emily Dickinson doesn't start with 'Dear Bee,' but uses exclamation marks to get the bee's attention :

Bee! I’m Expecting You!

Bee! I'm expecting you!

Was saying yesterday

To somebody you know

That you were due –

The frogs got home last week –

Are settled and at work –

Birds, mostly back –

The clover warm and thick –

You'll get my letter by

The seventeenth; reply

Or better, be with me –

Yours, Fly.

I'm starting a letter poem from a frog to her tadpoles – as you can see in the photo –

I've left some lines for you to fill in - what do you think a frog would say to her tadpoles?

Dear Tadpoles,

I haven't seen you in a while.

How are you?

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Well, must stop,

Got to hop,

All my love, Mum

It’s fun, isn’t it?

Now write your own 'Letter' poem. Decide who it's to and who it's from, and start writing!

I found Emily Dickinson’s poem, Bee! I’m Expecting You! in The Works 8, edited by John Foster. Macmillan, 2009. ISBN 9780330464079

and in

Emily Dickinson The Complete Works, edited by Thomas H. Johnson. Faber & Faber, 1975. ISBN 9780571108640

Write a 'Letter' Poem